Steven A. Adelman, MD

Steven A. Adelman, MD is the Director of Physician Health Services, Inc. (PHS). PHS, a subsidiary of the Massachusetts Medical Society, is a non-profit that provides assessment, triage and support services to physicians and medical students with challenges such as addiction, mental illness and burnout. Dr. Adelman is a graduate of Harvard College and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He was a chief resident in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School’s McLean Hospital and a faculty fellow in addiction medicine at the University of Massachusetts School of Medicine, where he is a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry. He has extensive clinical and leadership experience in addiction psychiatry and addiction medicine, and served for 13 years as the Director of Behavioral Health & Addiction Medicine at Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates. At Harvard Vanguard, he launched a multidisciplinary pain program, and a buprenorphine (Suboxone) program for medication assisted treatment of opioid use disorders. Dr. Adelman frequently speaks and writes about what he describes as the “mounting occupational health crisis in medicine.”