Richard A Oddy MD, MA, DABPN, DASAM, DAAPM

Denver, Colorado
Fort Collins, Colorado

Located in Denver, Colorado and Fort Collins, Colorado, Dr. Oddy is a quadruple-credentialed psychiatrist (board certifications in psychiatry, psychosomatic medicine, addiction medicine, additional credentialing in interdisciplinary pain management), with expertise in the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness including depression, anxiety (including panic disorder and obsessive compulsive disorder), bipolar disorder, ADHD, and the management of alcohol and substance use disorders/addictive disorders.
In addition to his skills in diagnosis and medication treatment, Dr Oddy is also trained as a psychotherapist, and believes the relationship with the patient is central to treatment.
As a psychiatrist and addiction medicine physician Dr Oddy is trained to manage mental illness and addictions together (e.g. bipolar disorder and alcohol or drug abuse), as they often co-occur (dual diagnosis or co-occurring disorders).
Serving Denver, Colorado and the Fort Collins, Loveland and Greeley areas of Northern Colorado, Dr Oddy is able to bring a number of distinct areas of study into one practice. With the scientific background of a degree in neuropharmacology, a medical degree from the University of Cambridge, England, and psychotherapy training from New York, combined with psychiatry training, addiction medicine training,  as well as chronic pain interdisciplinary management experience, Dr Oddy is able to appreciate relationships between the mind/brain and body.
Dr. Oddy has private practices located in Fort Collins and Denver, Colorado.
Dr. Oddy’s practice in Denver, Colorado is conveniently located for Metro Denver, and centrally located allowing the easiest proximity for all cities surrounding Denver, including Aurora, Arvada, Westminster, Northglenn, Thornton, Lakewood, Englewood, Littleton, Castle Rock, Parker.

Ryan Scarborough LCSW, CACIII, EMDR II
Ryans is a psychotherapist and counselor that practices collaboratively as a consultant for R A Oddy MD Psychiatry LLC and he has been practicing in the field of mental health and substance abuse for the past twelve years.  His varying practice experience includes providing interventions within inpatient and outpatient mental health facilities, a primary care medical clinic and in private practice.  Ryan completed his master’s degree at Colorado State University and is currently a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), Certified Addictions Counselor Level III (CACIII), and an Eye Movement and Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) therapist, level two trained.  Ryan enjoys working with individuals, couples and groups, ranging in age from adolescents to adults, providing counseling interventions, individual and family psychotherapy or counseling, and group psychotherapy or counseling. 

Barbara Jensen, CACI
“Treatment Partner/Case Manager”
Barbara works as a consultant to R A Oddy MD Psychiatry LLC, to help integrate your treatment goals into your life goals.

Barbara’s approach is casual, but very effective and relevant, and she works primarily in parallel and to complement Dr. Oddy or Ryan Scarborough or an office therapist and is more likely to meet you in the community, your home or even a coffee shop! She works to help us by helping you plan lifestyle changes that work for you, help you envision realistic and attainable lifestyle goals, and support your progress during weekly (or more or less frequent) one-on-one appointments. She helps you prioritize your health, begin new self-care activities and work through roadblocks. She can help you enhance mindfulness and relaxation and find a meditative practice that works for you. Barbara will work with you to organize your schedule, talk through budgets and bills, explore support groups together, help you stay on track with your medications and appointments.

Team-based integrated approach
Addiction and Mental Health

New Denver office Location starting Monday, February 8th:
50 South Steele St., Ste. 377,
Denver CO 80209.

Directions to Denver Office (effective Monday, February 8, 2010)

Directions to Denver Office (prior to Monday, February 8, 2010)

Telephone 970 622 0588
Fax 970  622 8005

Dr. Oddy’s practice in Northern Colorado is conveniently located in Fort Collins, with easy access for Greeley , Loveland and Windsor,  Colorado, and Cheyenne and Laramie, Wyoming.

Directions to Fort Collins Office

Telephone 970 622 0588
Fax 970 622 8005

Addresses:

R A Oddy MD Psychiatry LLC
Fort Collins, Colorado office
Drake Professional Park
2629 Redwing Road
Suite #275
Fort Collins, CO
970 622 0588 telephone
970 622 8005 fax

R A Oddy MD Psychiatry LLC
Denver, Colorado office
50 South Steele St., Ste. 377,
Denver CO 80209..
970 622 0588 telephone
970 622 8005 fax

Complete Resume

Richard A. Oddy, MD
Diplomate general psychiatry, psychosomatic medicine, addiction medicine, interdisciplinary pain management

Private Practice
R A Oddy MD Psychiatry LLC
Fort Collins, Colorado office
Drake Professional Park
2629 Redwing Road
Suite #275
Fort Collins, CO
970 622 0588 telephone
970 622 8005 fax

1.Board Certified in Psychiatry (American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology ABPN 2001)
2.Specialty Board Certification in Psychosomatic Medicine (ABPN 2005)
3.Diplomate in Interdisciplinary Pain Management (American Academy of Pain Management 2006)
4. Board Certified in Addiction Medicine (American Board of Addiction Medicine 2005)

Psychosomatic Medicine, Addiction Medicine, Collaborative Practice, Psychotherapy. Adults, adolescents. Suboxone management of opiate abuse. Evaluation and treatment of bipolar disorders, depression, anxiety disorders, including PTSD, childhood onset disorders including ADHD and ODD, schizophrenia, addictions, alcohol abuse and chronic pain.  Psychotherapy and medication management.

Current Consultant Posts

09/09 ongoing

Consultant Psychiatrist Larimer Center Mental Health Child and Family Psychiatry Division, Loveland, Colorado

http://www.larimercenter.org/services.htm#Children

Consultant Psychiatrist Turning Point Residential Treatment Center for adolescent male and females. Fort Collins, Colorado

http://turningpnt.org/

Employment History
12/2004- 8/09 Psychiatrist: Clinician, Consultant, Educator, Supervisor
Health District of Northern Larimer County: Primary Care/Mental Health Integration Team
Web Site
Health District Compass

1.Fort Collins Family Medicine Residency Program and Primary Care Clinic, Poudre Valley Health System: Core Faculty, Counseling and Wellness Services. Resident education, consultation and outpatient care.
Web Site

2.Salud Family Health Center, The Children's Clinic: Consultation and outpatient care. Adult, adolescent and child, consultation services. Evaluation, psychopharmacology, lead clinician of integrated primary care mental health team, Suboxone induction and maintenance. Evaluation and treatment of bipolar disorders, depression, anxiety disorders, including PTSD, childhood disorders including ADHD and ODD, schizophrenia, addictions, alcohol abuse and chronic pain.  Psychotherapy and medication management.

3. Steering Committee Member Community Mental Health and Substance Abuse Partnership, serving communities of Fort Collins, Loveland and Greeley

4. Co-Occurring Disorders Community Wide Project, member of Leaders and Champions subcommittee, serving communities of Fort Collins, Loveland and Greeley

Mountain Crest Mental Health Services, Poudre Valley Health Services:Inpatient care. As a member of the medical staff at PVHS, shared responsibility for overnight evaluation, inpatient call, weekend and weeknight admissions, evaluations, and inpatient management of acute adolescents and adult patients

07/2003 - 10/2004 Good Samaritan Health Systems - Kearney, NE
Medical Director of Residential Treatment Center for adolescent girls with addiction and abuse pathology
Attending Psychiatrist (share responsibilities with one other psychiatrist and one psychiatric nurse practitioner) 1:2 call, working as part of a multidisciplinary team, supervising therapists, social workers, nursing, psychologist.
Inpatient adult/youth/child - up to 25 census
Partial day hospital programs for adult/youth
Outpatient clinic with adult, geriatric, child, and adolescent caseload, medication management and psychotherapy
Collaborative psychiatrist for psychiatric nurse practitioner
Electroconvulsive therapy - inpatient and outpatient
Consultant psychiatrist for adolescent treatment group homes
Outpatient psychotherapy
Teaching of family practice residents and physician assistants residents
Outpatient consultation referrals from local physicians
Inpatient consultation referrals from local MDs for all consultation-liaison
Work
Community education lectures on prevention, and treatment to health care professionals and lay people, e.g. "Avoiding the Holiday Blues" to lay people, "ADHD" to statewide foster parents meeting, multiple lectures to local physicians about depression and anxiety disorders due to membership on "Lexapro Speakers' Bureau "Management of Psychiatric Emergencies" to statewide convention of emergency room staff
Community involvement as physician member of Central Nebraska Autism Advisory Group, clinical work with autism and pervasive developmental disorders.

06/2000 - 07/2003 Great Plains Regional Medical Center - North Platte, NE
Attending psychiatrist (shared responsibilities with one other psychiatrist)
Inpatient adult/adolescent - 16 bed, call average 1:2, multidisciplinary team
Partial day hospital programs for adult and adolescent
Outpatient clinic with adult, geriatric, child, and adolescent caseload, medication management and psychotherapy
Consultant psychiatrist for "Boys and Girls Home of Nebraska "A Place For Me" child residential treatment programs and "Enhanced Treatment Group Home" adolescent treatment group home. Management of moderate to severe mental illness in children including attachment disorders, mood disorders (depression and bipolar disorders), anxiety disorders (including PTSD), behavioral disorders (including ADHD and ODD)
Consultant psychiatrist for several local nursing homes
Supervising psychiatrist for local mental health counselors
Collaborative psychiatrist for psychiatric nurse practitioner
Outpatient and inpatient ECT Outpatient psychotherapy
Teaching of family practice residents and physician assistants residents
Outpatient and inpatient consultations for all local physicians
Lectures to community professionals on diagnostic and treatment issues of common mental illness, e.g. 5 week course on identification and management of mental illness in youth, and lectures to local therapists on management of severe personality disorders (borderline, dependent, narcissistic, histrionic and antisocial personality disorders)

06/1996 - 06/2000 Residency in Psychiatry, Weill Medical College - Cornell University, New York Preabyterian Hospital, New York, NY.
Web Site
New York Presbyterian Hospital - Weill Cornell Medical Center
PGYIV Resident - Assistant Psychiatrist, NYPH Clinical Assoc.,
Cornell University Medical College
Graduation 6/2000
Web Site
Project for Psychiatric Outreach to the Homeless, New York 1998-2000
Web Site

02/1996 - 06/1996 University of Cambridge, England, UK
Senior House Officer, Department of Psychiatry

08/1995 - 02/1996 University of Cambridge, England, UK
Junior House Officer, Department of Medicine

01/1995 - 08/1995 Dryburn Hospital, Durham, England, UK
Junior House Officer, Department of Surgery

University Education and Medical Degrees
March 1996 Master of Arts, University of Cambridge, England
December 1995 Bachelor of Medicine/MD, University of Cambridge, England
December 1994 Bachelor of Surgery, University of Cambridge, England.
June 1994 Bachelor of Arts, Honors, University of Cambridge, England (Neuropharmacology)

Examinations and certifications.
American Academy of Pain Management 2006 Credentialed in Interdisciplinary Pain Management
American Society Addiction Medicine 2005 Board Certification
American Board Psychiatry Neurology added Qualifications Psychosomatic Medicine 2005
American Board Psychiatry Neurology Psychiatry - board certification 2002
ECFMG certification valid indefinitely (Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduate)
United States Medical Licensing Examination 1,2,3

Research
Department of Psychiatry, Mood Disorders and Dysthymia Research Center, Cornell Medical College - New York Hospital. Clinical work with three research studies. Co-investigator - this involved work in study planning and facilitation, work as a rater of symptomatology, and clinical management roles as psychopharmacologist in all three trials.
1. "Open-Label Evaluation of the Efficacy, safety and Dosing of Citalopram (Celexa) in outpatients with Depression."
2. "A Multicenter, Double-Bind, Placebo-Controlled, Flexible-Dose, Parallel-Group Evaluation of the Safety and Efficacy of Lamotrigine (Lamictal) in the Long-Term Prevention of Mood Episodes in Patients with Bipolar Disorder with Rapid Cycling: Incorporating Participation in Genotype Research - Optional for Both Patients and Sites."
3. NIMH funded study testing relative efficacy of four treatments for dysthymic disorder, Interpersonal Psychotherapy, Supportive Psychotherapy, Sertaline (Zoloft) plus Clinical Management, Combined Treatment with Interpersonal Psychotherapy and Sertaline (Zoloft).

06/1992 - 09/1992 Department of Neuropharmacology, Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA - working with Professor R. E. Bloom, see publication below

(K. R. Melia, A. Tremleau, R. Oddy, P. P. Sanna, F. E. Bloom. Detection and regulation of tyrosine hydroxylase mRNA in catecholaminergic terminal fields: possible axonal compartmentalization. Experimental Neurology, Vol 131, pages 1-13, Dec. 1994)

03/1992 - 06/1992 Department of Pharmacology, Cambridge University, UK - working in neuropharmacology with the team of Dr. P. J. Richardson on investigation of adenosine neurotransmission in rat striatal cholinergic nerve terminals.

06/1991 - 09/1991 Department of Pharmacology, Liverpool University, UK - working in clinical pharmacology with the team of Professor A. Breckenridge, principally using high performance liquid chromatography techniques to define assays for anti-HIV drugs, especially ddC.

2 yrs of Psychoanalytic Training
William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Psychoanalysis
Web Site
West 74 St. NY, NY. Interpersonal psychoanalytic
1998 through 2000: didactic classes, supervised cases and personal psychoanalysis
1998 through 2005: personal training psychoanalysis

Professional Associations
American Psychiatric Association
Colorado Psychiatric Association
Colorado Medical Society
Larimer County Medical Society
American Academy of Pain Management
American Society of Addiction Medicine

Presentations and Papers

12/3/08 “ADHD Treatment and Medications”, Family Medicine Center, Fort Collins, CO. 

5/19/08 “Introduction to Psychotic Symptoms and Treatments”, Family Medicine Center, Fort Collins, CO.

11/6/07 “Schizophrenia”, Colorado State University Social Work Program, Fort Collins, CO.

10/16/07 “Management of Opiate Dependence”, Island Grove Regional Treatment Center, Fort Collins, CO.

10/15/07 “Medication Management of Unipolar Depression”, Family Medicine Center, Fort Collins, CO.

8/21/07 “Refractory depression”, Salud Family Health Center, Fort Collins, CO.

7/17/07 “Update on treatment of childhood bipolar disorder”, Salud Family Health Center, Fort Collins, CO.

7/16/07 “Management of psychiatric emergencies”, Family Medicine Center, Fort Collins, CO.

4/3/07 “Management of ADHD in the primary care setting”, Salud Family Health Center, Fort Collins, CO.

2/7/07 “Psychopharmacology of bipolar disorders, selection of mood stabilizers”, Family Medicine Center, Poudre Valley Hospital, Fort Collins, CO.

11/4/06  “Integrating Co-occurring Services Into Primary Care”, Presentation at “EIGHTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE Best Practices in Collaborative Healthcare”

November 2 - 4, 2006

Hyatt Regency Newport Hotel and Spa, Newport, Rhode Island

11/4/06  “Cutting Edge Collaborative Treatment for Chronic pain in Primary Care”, Presentation at “EIGHTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE Best Practices in Collaborative Healthcare”

November 2 - 4, 2006

Hyatt Regency Newport Hotel and Spa, Newport, Rhode Island

5/2/06 "The suicidal patient, evaluation of risk, risk factors, and management", Salud Family Health Center/Children's Clinic, Fort Collins, CO.

5/8/06 "The suicidal patient, evaluation of risk, risk factors, and management", Family Medicine Center, Poudre Valley Hospital, Fort Collins, CO.

4/17/06 "Suboxone, pharmacology and clinical use in opiate addiction, and opiate addiction in chronic pain", Family Medicine Center, Poudre Valley Hospital, Fort Collins, CO.

4/4/2006 "Suboxone, pharmacology and clinical use in opiate addiction, and opiate addiction in chronic pain", Salud Family Health Center/Children's Clinic, Fort Collins, CO.

2/7/2006 "Update on Diagnosis and Management of ADHD with special focus on co - morbidity and psychopharmacology, bipolar disorders, anxiety disorders and ODD", Salud Family Health Center / Children's Clinic, Fort Collins, CO.

12/15/2006 "Update on Psychopharmacology and Diagnosis of Tourette's Disorders and Tic Disorders", Family Medicine Center, Poudre Valley Hospital, Fort Collins, CO.

3/7/2006 "Atypical Antipsychotics and Mechanism of Action: Novel Receptor Pharmacology: effectiveness in bipolar disorders and schizophrenia", Salud Family Health Center/Children's Clinic, Fort Collins, CO.

3/15/2006 "Atypical Antipsychotics and Mechanism of Action: Novel Receptor Pharmacology: effectiveness in bipolar disorders and schizophrenia", Family Medicine Center, Poudre Valley Hospital, Fort Collins, CO

9/13/2005 "Mood Disorders (depression and bipolar disorder) and Substance Use Induced Mood Disorders (addiction related mood disorders): How to Know the Difference", Lincoln Center, Fort Collins, CO. Community-wide mental health provider audience, arranged by Health District No. Larimer County, Community Mental Health and Substance Abuse Partnership

6/22/2005 "Medically Unexplained Physical Symptoms", panel of Dr. Oddy, family physician and LMFT, Fort Collins Country Club, mental health provider, physicians, arranged by Health District of No. Larimer County, Community Mental Health and Substance Abuse Partnership.

6/6/2005 "Management of Substance Use Disorders (drug addiction)  in Primary Care, Medical Treatments", Family Medicine Center, Poudre Valley Health System, Fort Collins, CO

5/2/05 "Psychiatric Management of Bipolar Disorder: an Update for the Primary Care Provider", Family Medicine Center and Residency Program, Fort Collins, CO.

2/11/05 "Antipsychotic Medications: an update for Primary Care..use in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder", Family Medicine Center and Residency Program, Fort Collins, CO

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