Substance and Non-Substance Related Addictions (PDF)

Evaristo Akerele
Rutgers University
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Chief of Medicine (as of November 2017)
185 S Orange Ave
Newark, NJ 07103





Dr. Akerele is an accomplished researcher, educator, administrator and clinician. He has published several papers and received state and federal grants. He is a nationally and internationally recognized expert in the field of Addiction Psychiatry. He has worked closely with the United Nations to train staff globally on Mental Health and Addiction issues.

He has served as Vice President and Chairman, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, Interfaith Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York.
He has served as Associate Director of Psychiatry and Director of Residency Training at Harlem Hospital, Columbia University. As Vice President and Medical Director for Phoenix House he was responsible for the medical management of over 3000 patients.




He was AssociateProfessor of Psychiatry and Director of the Substance Abuse Fellowship Program at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. Dr. Evaristo Akerele also served as the Network Director for the North Brooklyn Health Network for Substance Abuse Services.




He has served as Board Examiner for the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology since 2005. He is very active in multiple professional associations at national and state level, including but not limited to the American Medical Association, American Psychiatric Association and, College on Problems of Drug Dependence. He served as chair of the New York state Substance Abuse committee, also as state representative to American Psychiatric Association national Assembly. He is a distinguished fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and past president of New York County American Psychiatric Association. He was honored at the 112th Congress in 2012.