Dr. Halligan's Background/Credentials

Board-certified in Psychiatry (through 2029)

Board-certified in Addiction Psychiatry (through 2027)

Licensed physician in the state of New York (NY201150)

Licensed physician in the state of South Carolina (19679)

Licensed Buprenorphine (Suboxone) Prescriber 2003-present

Certified Sex Addiction Therapist (International Institute for Trauma and Addiction Professionals)

POST GRADUATE TRAINING

Medical University of South Carolina (Charleston, SC)
Fellowship in Addiction Psychiatry (1997- 1998)

Cornell-The New York Hospital (White Plains, NY)
Psychiatry Residency ( 1993- 1997)

MEDICAL EDUCATION

Georgetown University School of Medicine (Georgetown, DC)
Degree: M.D. 1992

WORK EXPERIENCE

Mt. Pleasant, SC: :
Teletherapy with NY and SC clients
August 2020 to present

Rochester, NY :
Private Practice Psychiatry Addiction Psychiatry practice including consultations, individual therapy, group therapy, medication management, collaboration with impaired health care professionals referred by The Committee for Physician Health in Albany, NY.
Extensive collaboration with Kavod, a local outpatient treatment center for sex addiction.
2007-July 2020

Fairport, NY:
Psychiatrist, part-time, at The Healing Connection, a nonprofit hospital outpatient day program for adolescents/adults with eating disorders. Intake evaluations, medication management, teaching psychiatry residents, supervision of staff
January 2010-January 2011

Rochester, NY:
Attending Psychiatrist at Unity Chemical Dependency Inpatient and Outpatient Addiction Psychiatry, clinical care of patients, supervision of staff
Developed Suboxone Program for Patients with Opioid Use Disorder
2005-2007

Mt. Pleasant, SC:
Private Practice Psychiatry
Individual therapy, interventions, consultations, extensive work with impaired health care professionals through the Recovering Professionals Program in Columbia, SC
2000-2005

Charleston, SC:
Attending Psychiatrist at The Center for Drug and Alcohol Programs Medical University of South Carolina Inpatient and Outpatient Addiction Psychiatry, clinical care of patients, teaching of Medical students and Psychiatry residents
1998-2000

PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS

New York, NY:
Center for Group Studies
Ongoing Training in Modern Analytic Group Psychotherapy
2012-present

Rochester, NY:
Running Modern Analytic Groups
2010-present

Interviewed for Rochester Business Journal article "Studies show pandemic incites increased amount of alcohol consumption for women,"
May 10, 2021

Guest speaker on Recovery Coach University Radio Program on “The Opioid Epidemic”
2/21/19

Three hour workshop on “Benzodiazepine Use Disorder” for staff at Huther Doyle Addiction Recovery Services December 12, 2018

Grand Rounds for Dept. of Surgery/Anesthesiology at Rochester General Hospital “Treating Pain in the Suboxone Patient” October 2018

Workshop “Cannabis Use Disorder”, Finger Lakes Collegiate Task Force
April 12, 2018

Workshop “Opioid Use Disorder”, Finger Lakes Collegiate Task Force
April 12, 2018

Guest Essayist in Democrat and Chronicle newspaper speaking out on Marijuana Addiction (“Marijuana is Harmful”)
October 29, 2016

Community Lecture at Monroe County Medical Society on
Benzodiazepine Dependence January 2015

Lecture on Benzodiazepine Dependence to DePaul Addiction Services
staff February 2015

Guest Essayist in Democrat and Chronicle newspaper
Speaking out on Opiate Epidemic (“Broaden Proven Heroin Treatment”)
November 2014

“The Five Minute Clinical Consult 2013, 21st edition”
Chapter on Prescription Drug Abuse
Editor Frank J. Domino

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry (AAAP)

American Group Psychotherapy Association (AGPA)

IITAP International Institute for Trauma and Addiction Professionals

CGS Center for Group Studies Manhattan

Board Member of The Benzodiazepine Information Coalition