RobertChambersMD
Psychiatry • Indianapolis, INAddiction, Neuropsychiatry, Integrative Psychiatry
Associate Professor, Psychiatry, Indiana University School of Medicine
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Office
IU Neuroscience Center
320 West 15th Street, Suite 314
Indianapolis, IN 46202Phone+1 317-278-1716- Is this information wrong?
Summary
- R. Andrew Chambers, MD is Director of Addiction Psychiatry Training at Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis. He is a graduate of Centre College (chemical physics/mathematics; 1991), Duke University School of Medicine (MD; 1996), and Yale University Psychiatry (2000) and Basic Neuroscience Programs (2002). After completing the IU Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship (2012) and earning certifications in Addiction Medicine (ABAM) and Addiction Psychiatry (ABPN), Andy has practiced and taught Addiction Psychiatry at Midtown Mental Health Center in Indianapolis. His research, supported by the Veterans Administration, the American Psychiatric Association, and the National Institutes on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), has pioneered rodent models of dual diagnosis, contributing to our understanding of neurodevelopmental mechanisms that drive addiction disease in adolescence and mental illness. Andy’s basic, neuro-computational, and health systems research aims to translate to a better future of integrated addiction and mental health care and professional training.
Education & Training
Indiana University School of MedicineFellowship, Addiction Psychiatry, 2010 - 2012
Yale-New Haven Medical CenterResidency, Psychiatry, 1996 - 2000- Yale-New Haven Medical CenterInternship, Transitional Year, 1996 - 1997
Duke University School of MedicineClass of 1996
Certifications & Licensure
IN State Medical License 2003 - 2023
CT State Medical License 1998 - 2004- American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology Psychiatry
- American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology Addiction Psychiatry
Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- 1 citationsIntegrated Effects of Neonatal Ventral Hippocampal Lesions and Impoverished Social-Environmental Rearing on Endophenotypes of Mental Illness and Addiction Vulnerability.Robert Andrew Chambers, Alena M. Sentir> ;Developmental Neuroscience. 2019 Jan 1
- 8 citationsPolysubstance addiction vulnerability in mental illness: Concurrent alcohol and nicotine self-administration in the neurodevelopmental hippocampal lesion rat model of ...Alena M. Sentir, Richard L. Bell, Eric A. Engleman, R. Andrew Chambers> ;Addiction Biology. 2020 Jan 1
- 3 citationsThe Penrose Effect and its acceleration by the war on drugs: a crisis of untranslated neuroscience and untreated addiction and mental illnessGregory G. Grecco, R. Andrew Chambers> ;Translational Psychiatry. 2019 Nov 28
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Hospital Affiliations
- Eskenazi HealthIndianapolis, Indiana
- Richard L. Roudebush Veterans Affairs Medical CenterIndianapolis, Indiana
- Indiana University Health University HospitalIndianapolis, Indiana
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