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Dr. Kolodny previously served as Chief Medical Officer for Phoenix House, a national non profit addiction treatment agency and Chair of Psychiatry at Maimonides Medical Center in New York City. Dr. Kolodny has a long-standing interest in public health. He began his career working for the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene in the Office of the Executive Deputy Commissioner. For New York City, he helped develop and implement multiple programs to improve the health of New Yorkers and save lives, including city-wide buprenorphine programs, naloxone overdose prevention programs and emergency room-based screening, brief intervention and referral to treatment (SBIRT) programs for drug and alcohol misuse.

Dr. Kolodny's testimony before for the United States Congress is available here:
https://www.c-span.org/person/?andrewkolodny

Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control. May 14, 2014
“America’s Addiction to Opioids: Heroin and Prescription Drug Abuse”
https://www.drugcaucus.senate.gov/sites/default/files/Kolodny%20Testimony.pdf

Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. January 17, 2018
“Unintended Consequences: Medicaid and the Opioid Epidemic.”
https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Testimony-Kolodny-2018-01-17-REVISED.pdf

Committee on Energy & Commerce, Subcommittee on Health, U.S. House of Representatives. February 28, 2018
Combatting the Opioid Crisis
https://energycommerce.house.gov/sites/democrats.energycommerce.house.gov/files/documents/Testimony-Kolodny-HE-Hrg-on-Combating-the-Opioid-Crisis-Helping-Communities-Balance-Enforcement-and-Patient-Safety-201.pdf

For a listing of Dr. Kolodny's publications on PubMed, please see:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=andrew+kolodny