Frances Rudnick Levin, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry. Columbia University

Frances Rudnick Levin, M.D., is an Assistant Professor in Columbia's Department of Psychiatry and Associate Director of Substance Abuse Education at the New York State Psychiatric Institute. She also serves as the Director of Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship at Columbia University. She received her medical training at Cornell University Medical College and her psychiatric residency at New York Hospital-Payne Whitney Clinic. In addition, Dr. Levin completed a combined research and clinical substance abuse fellowship at the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the University of Maryland. Dr. Levin is Board Certified in psychiatry and has additional board qualifications in addiction psychiatry. She is also certified by the American Society of Addiction Medicine. She has received numerous awards including a Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence. Dr. Levin has made numerous presentations and had many publications to her credit in the fields of substance abuse and dual diagnosis disorders. She has served on several advisory panels including the NIDA, ADHD and Substance Abuse Work group, and Consensus Panels sponsored by the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment to develop treatment improvement protocols for cocaine abusing methadone-maintained patients and treatment of stimulant abuse. Dr. Levin is the Principle Investigator of two federally funded research grants and has a Scientist Development Award for Clinicians. Her research interests include: pharmacologic treatment interventions for cocaine abuse, treatment approaches of dual diagnosis patients, and the neurobiology of substance abusers with adult attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.