Dr. David Crockford

Biography

Dr. Crockford is a Clinical Professor with the Cumming School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry at the University of Calgary where he has worked since 1998. He is a consulting psychiatrist to the Foothills Medical Centre Early Psychosis Intervention and Adult Psychosis Programs treating patient with psychosis and the Foothills Medical Centre Addiction Program treating patients with concurrent psychiatric and substance use disorders. He is certified in Addiction Medicine by the Canadian Society of Addiction Medicine.  His published work focuses on concurrent psychiatric and substance use disorders, education in addiction, gambling disorder, and functional brain neuroimaging. He is a past Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada examiner and test committee member for psychiatry, Chair of the Addictions Section for the Canadian Psychiatric Association as well as prior International Area Director and International Member-at-Large for the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry.  He is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a Fellow of the Canadian Psychiatric Association.