Addressing the Barriers to Effective Pain Management and Issues of Opioid Misuse and Abuse

Dr. Wyatt graduated from the Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine in 1979. He practiced Emergency Medicine in Michigan for 13 years. He entered a psychiatric residency at University Hospitals of Cleveland, CWRU in 1993. Upon completion of his residency in 1996 he became a NIDA Clinical Research Fellow in the Dept. of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT. While at Yale he completed an Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship.

He is presently employed as Medical Director of the Dual Diagnosis Program at Middlesex Hospital. He sits on a variety of Federal committees on substance use disorders. He is a past president of both the Connecticut Society of Addiction Medicine and the American Osteopathic Academy of Addiction Medicine, and is on the Executive Committee for the Connecticut, Board of Mental Health and Addiction Services.

Dr. Wyatt’s primary research interests have been in the field of dual diagnosis treatment, working with HIV positive patients and adolescents.