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H. Westley Clark, M.D., J.D., M.P.H., former chief of associated substance abuse programs at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in San Francisco, has been named director of the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT), a division of the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).
Clark's tenure began September 27. SAMHSA Administrator Nelba Chavez, Ph.D., announced Clark's appointment in a statement. "Westley Clark comes to lead CSAT at a very exciting and prominent time for substance abuse treatment. His clinical, scientific, and practitioner field experience will be an invaluable tool to CSAT and SAMHSA."
Clark is board certified in psychiatry and addiction psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. He is also certified in addiction medicine by the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM).
In addition to directing the San Francisco V.A.'s substance abuse program, Clark serves as a senior program consultant to the Robert Wood Johnson substance abuse policy program and is an associate clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco. Clark is deemed an expert on methadone maintenance, pain management, dual diagnosis, and psychopharmacology, according to SAMHSA. He is involved in various substance abuse advisory boards including those of the Treatment-on-Demand Planning Council in San Francisco and ASAM's national board.
Clark has written widely in the field of substance abuse and has contributed to books including Drug Policy and Human Nature and Principles of Addiction Medicine. He also has published a number of legal and clinical articles in medical and legal journals.
Clark received his M.D. and M.P.H. degrees from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and his J.D. degree from Harvard University Law School.