Stephen M. Taylor, MD, MPH, DFAPA, DFASAM is board-certified in general psychiatry, child and adolescent psychiatry, addiction psychiatry, and addiction medicine. In more than 30 years of practice experience, and as an educator, presenter and advocate, Dr. Taylor’s life’s work has been to help adolescents and adults avoid or overcome addiction disorders and co-occurring general psychiatric disorders. Having served 16 years as the Medical Director of the Player Assistance and Anti-Drug Program of the National Basketball Association (NBA), Dr. Taylor currently serves as the Chief Medical Officer of Pathway Healthcare Services, a company that has opened and is operating more than 20 outpatient addiction and mental health treatment offices, servicing over 20,000 patients across five states.
Dr. Taylor is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a Distinguished Fellow of the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM). He currently serves as the President of ASAM and Chair of the ASAM Board of Directors. He also serves as Chair of ASAM's Delegation to the AMA House of Delegates.
An honors graduate of Harvard College, with a Master of Public Health degree from the Harvard T.S. Chan School of Public Health and a medical degree from Howard University College of Medicine, Dr. Taylor completed "Triple Board" residency training in pediatrics, psychiatry and child and adolescent psychiatry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Bronx Municipal Hospital Center, and then completed a fellowship in addiction psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine/Bellevue Hospital Center.