Our Medical Staff
Charles
Dackis, MD
Chief, Department of Psychiatry
Charles Dackis earned his M.D. from Duke University
and completed his residency in psychiatry at
the New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia
Penn Presbyterian Medical Center. He has been
at Penn since 1998 and was previously the Medical
Director of two specialized psychiatric hospitals
in New Jersey for a period of 12 years. Currently
he is Chief of Psychiatry at Penn Presbyterian
Medical Center and Medical Director of Adult
Community Psychiatry for the Department of Psychiatry
at Penn.
He is board-certified in Psychiatry
and Addiction Psychiatry. His research interests
include the psychopharmacology and neurobiology
of addiction, and in 1984 he developed the
dopamine depletion hypothesis of cocaine dependence.
Dr. Dackis also teaches medical students and
residents in psychiatry and he has authored more
than 90 publications in the area of addictive
and co-occurring disorders.
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