Dr. Nick C. Mellos is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry (Voluntary) at University of California San Diego (UCSD) and the site director for the UCSD Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship at the Veteran Affairs San Diego (VASD) Healthcare System. He is an Alpha Omega Alpha graduate of New York Medical College and he completed his psychiatry residency and addiction psychiatry fellowship training at Yale. After completing his training he stayed at Yale becoming the Chief of Psychiatric Emergency Services at the West Haven Connecticut Veteran Administration Hospital. Among his accomplishments at Yale was the creation of a novel alcohol detoxification risk stratification approach to improve the pairing of detoxification interventions and the acquisition of a $10 million grant that resulted in the construction of a new state of the art Emergency Psychiatry facility. Among his accomplishments since arriving at VASD and at UCSD in 2014 include the co-founding the UCSD addiction psychiatry fellowship, served as the acting Chief of Psychiatry at VASD, he successfully lead efforts to expand medication assisted treatments for opioid use disorder, and lead efforts to vastly expand outpatient mental health and addiction services resulting in the acquisition of 60 new positions and the opening of two new outpatient mental health facilities within VASD. He serves as Section Chief leading a 72 member team providing outpatient mental health care delivery for over 12,000 unique veterans annually. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, a recipient of the APA Nancy C A Roeske teaching award and provides a wide range of addiction trainings locally and internationally.
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Treating Persons with Substance Use Disorders in Contact with the Justice System
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