Panelists
R. Joffree Barrnett, M.D.
Medical Director, Aware Recovery Care
Dr. Barrnett is the medical director for Aware Recovery Care in New Hampshire. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. In addition, he conducts Forensic and Mental Health Service System consultations.
Dr. Barrnett is the medical director for Aware Recovery Care in New Hampshire. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. In addition, he conducts Forensic and Mental Health Service System consultations.
He completed his undergraduate degree at Brandeis University. He received his M.D. degree from the Yale University, School of Medicine. His internship and adult psychiatric residency were undertaken at The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. His Child and Adolescent Fellowship occurred at the Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital, in New York.
Prior to Aware Recovery Care, he was an Associate Professor, in the Section of Child Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. While there, he was the Director of Inpatient Training, at the Anna Philbrook Children’s Center, at New Hampshire Hospital. He was also the President of the Medical Staff Organization and Associate Medical Director in charge of Child and Adolescent services at both New Hampshire Hospital and the Juvenile Justice branch of the Department of Health and Human Services in New Hampshire.
Dr. Barrnett has extensive experience in consulting with the State of New Hampshire’s Legislature, Mental Health Service System of Care in New Hampshire, other private and international social service and clinical entities, and public and private schools. His clinical expertise includes children, adolescents and adults suffering from severe mental illness, intellectual and developmental disorders, substance use disorders, those in protective and adoptive services, and those involved with the criminal justice system. His clinical expertise also encompasses working with and helping the families of clients he has served. He has also been retained as an independent forensic expert in criminal and civil cases
Dr. Barrnett has received multiple grants and awards, including the Exemplary Psychiatrist of the Year in 1994 and 2014 from the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill. He has published in the areas of Schizophrenia, aggression, psychopharmacology and psychotherapy. He has lectured and led seminars on these topics and others including: forensic psychiatry, child and adolescent psychiatry, risk assessment and management, substance use disorders and other diagnostic entities.
Andrew Stone, M.D., M.P.H.
Former Medical Director, Discovery House Comprehensive Treatment Center Northern Rhode Island
Dr. Stone completed his undergraduate degree in Biology in 1993 at Johns Hopkins University, received his Masters in Public Health in 1995 from Columbia University and completed medical school at the University of Vermont College of Medicine in 1999. He did his residency and chief residency in Internal Medicine at Brown University, where he continued training in Pulmonary and Critical Care medicine completing his fellowship in 2006. He worked briefly at the Providence VA Medical Center and as an Instructor in Medicine at Brown University before leaving medicine and worked on his own recovery. He returned to medicine in early 2015 and has practiced Addiction Medicine full time since. Additionally, he volunteers weekly at the Rhode Island Free Clinic providing free primary care to the uninsured. His research interests have focused on outcomes in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and pulmonary hyptertension, he has presented nationally and internationally on physician health outcomes as it relates to sexual misconduct and sexual addiction. His most recent research has looked at the fentanyl epidemic in Rhode Island and outcomes related to treatment for those with addiction involving opioids for which he won an award at the national ASAM conference in 2018. Until recently Dr. Stone was the Medical Director at Discovery House Comprehensive Treatment Center Northern Rhode Island, a methadone maintenance treatment program in Woonsocket, Rhode Island.
Dr. Romas Buivydas
Vice President of Clinical Development, Spectrum Health Systems
Romas Buivydas, Ph.D., LMHC, has more than twenty-five years of experience in the behavioral health field and is a clinical and administrative behavioral health services leader specializing in substance use disorders and mental health treatment of adolescents and adults. He is a nationally recognized expert in clinical services development and delivery, integrated treatment, engagement and motivation, and best practice treatment approaches. As Vice President of Clinical Development, Dr. Buivydas provides education, training, and consultation in clinical best practices throughout the country. Previously, Dr. Buivydas provided consultation to numerous behavioral health organizations and was formerly the Director of Evaluations at a hospital-based psychiatric/addiction department for six years. He is also a national presenter/trainer at conferences & symposia across the country, and serves as adjunct faculty at several universities.