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President R. Gregory Lande, DO, FACN Dr Lande is a member of the Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine's graduating class of 1978. Following receipt of the DO degree, Dr Lande joined the US Army. His internship was in family practice and was followed by a residency in psychiatry at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. After a stimulating three year tour of duty in Germany, Dr Lande joined the Maryland Medical School as a fellow in forensic psychiatry. After completing the fellowship the US Army assigned Dr Lande to the hospital in Korea. After that two year assignment the next ten years were spent on the teaching staff at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Dr Lande retired from the US Army as a Colonel, received the coveted "A" designator for professional accomplishments, and was awarded the Legion of Merit. In the years after the military, Dr Lande has been a clinical research director at Wayne State Medical School, the Director of Professional Services at a hospital in South Carolina, and currently is the Clinical Consultant to the Walter Reed Army Medical Center's Substance Abuse Program. Dr Lande has his CAQ in Addiction Medicine and is a certified MRO. He has published many articles. His most recent contribution is "Madness, Malingering, and Malfeasance" a book released in 2003 by Brassey Publishing and available wherever fine books are sold! The book recounts the history of medical legal practices during the American Civil War. President Elect Margot Waitz, DO Dr. Waitz is a graduate of the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. She received her bachelor's degree in biology from Juniata College, Huntingdon, PA and her master's degree in biology from Drexel University, Philadelphia. She completed a residency in Family Medicine at the Osteopathic Medical Center of Philadelphia and her fellowship in Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine at Christiana Care Health Services. Dr. Waitz currently serves as Christiana Care's Director of the Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine Services. Her clinical specialty is in the treatment of patients with eating disorders. Her interests include the relationship between eating disorders and addiction. She is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. Dr. Waitz is a member of the American Osteopathic Association, the American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians, the American Osteopathic Academy of Addiction Medicine, the Society for Adolescent Medicine and the Academy for Eating Disorders. Secretary/Treasurer Arlin Silberman, DO, FAOAAM Dr. Silberman is an attending in the Department of Psychiatry at Crozer Chester Medical Center and a psychiatric consultant to two outpatient drug and alcohol clinics in Philadelphia. He is board certified by the osteopathic and allopathic boards in Psychiatry, Addiction Psychiatry as well as Addiction Medicine. He is a fellow of the American Osteopathic Academy of Addiction Medicine and a former president, Currently he is Secretary-Treasurer of the AOAAM. He is also a Clinical Associate Professor in Psychiatry at Drexel University College of Medicine . He completed his medical training at Des Moines University-College of Osteopathic Medicine, his residency in psychiatry at Hahnemann University and a psychiatric fellowship at The Philadelphia Mental Health Clinic. Immediate Past President Stephen A. Wyatt, DO  Dr. Wyatt graduated from the Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine in 1979, and practiced Emergency Medicine in Michigan for 13 years. He then entered the psychiatric residency program at University Hospitals of Cleveland, Case Western Reserve University, in 1993. Upon completing his residency, he left Cleveland in 1996 to enter a National Institute of Drug Abuse Clinical Research Fellowship with the Department of Psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT. While at Yale he completed an Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship. His primary interest and research has been dual diagnosis treatment, and substance use disorder issues associated with HIV positive patients and adolescents. Dr. Wyatt is board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, with added qualifications in Addiction Psychiatry. He is presently employed as Medical Director of Dual Diagnosis Services at Middlesex Hospital in Middletown, CT. He is the Immediate Past-President of the Connecticut Chapter of the American Society of Addiction Medicine and current President of the American Osteopathic Academy of Addiction Medicine. Executive Director Nina Albano Vidmer nvidmer@aoaam.org |
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