Fort Collins Psychiatrist
Fort Collins Psychiatry

Complete Resume

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

Health District of Northern Larimer County
120 Bristlecone
Fort Collins, CO 80524.

970. 224 .5209

Private practice address
2121 Midpoint Drive
Fort Collins
CO, 80525
Tel: 970.482.0588
Fax: 970.482.3850

Board Certified in Psychiatry (American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology ABPN 2001)

Specialty Board Certification in Psychosomatic Medicine (ABPN 2005)

Diplomate in Interdisciplinary Pain Management (American Academy of Pain Management 2006)

Certification in Addiction Medicine (American Society of Addiction Medicine 2005)

Physician Licenses in Colorado (active), Connecticut (inactive), Nebraska (inactive)

Secretary of the American Society of Addiction Medicine Colorado Chapter

Board Member of the Larimer County Medical Society

Professional Memberships
American Psychiatric Association
Colorado Psychiatric Association
Colorado Medical Society
Larimer County Medical Society
American Society of Addiction Medicine
American Academy of Pain Management
Neuroscience Education Institute


Employment History
12/2004- Present Psychiatrist: Clinician, Consultant, Educator, Supervisor
Health District of Northern Larimer County: Lead member of 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, direct and 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

Richard Oddy MD, Private Practice Psychiatry -Psychopharmacology, Psychosomatic Medicine, Addiction Medicine, Collaborative Practice, Psychotherapy. Adults, adolescents and children. Suboxone management of opiate abuse. 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. Psychoanalysis

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.
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New York Presbyterian Hospital - Weill Cornell Medical Center
PGYIV Resident - Assistant Psychiatrist, NYPH Clinical Assoc.,
Cornell University Medical College
Graduation 6/2000
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Project for Psychiatric Outreach to the Homeless, New York 1998-2000
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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


Awards Received
1999 - Pfizer "Psychiatry Resident of the Year," educational grant for APA Conference
1998 - American Psychoanalytic Mentorship Scheme
1994 - Panton Award, Pembroke College, Cambridge University - awarded for achievements in elective in Addiction medicine at National Addiction Center, Maudsley Hospital and Institute of Psychiatry, London
1992 - Master's Award, Pembroke College, Cambridge University - awarded for research achievements in Neuropharmacology, California, undertaken following BA graduation and for research dissertation material, see publication below
1989 - Royal Biological Council of Great Britain Award - given for the highest performance throughout United Kingdom of all those taking biology at Advanced Level

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.

Psychoanalytic Training
William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Psychoanalysis
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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 Society of Addiction Medicine
American Holistic Medical Association
Neuroscience Education Institute


Presentations and Papers

2/7/07Psychopharmacology 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 atEIGHTH 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 atEIGHTH 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

2/3/05 "Substance Use Disorder: Psychiatric Diagnosis and Biological Treatments": presented to Certified Addiction Counselors of Northern Colorado, arranged by the Health District of Northern Colorado, at Health District, Fort Collins, CO.