David Crockford

Biography
David Crockford, MD is a Professor with the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Calgary in Calgary, Alberta, Canada where he has worked for over 25 years as a psychiatrist. He is the Clinical Medical Director for the Foothills Medical Centre Early Psychosis Intervention Program and a consulting psychiatrist to the Foothills Medical Centre Addiction Program and Adult Psychosis Program, treating patients with concurrent psychiatric and substance use disorders. He certified in Addiction Medicine in 2006 via the American Society of Addiction Medicine and then with the Canadian Society of Addiction Medicine (CSAM) in 2009. In 2023 he became a Diplomat of the Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Canada (RCPSC) with an Area of Focused Competence (AFC) in Addiction Medicine. He is on the CSAM board of directors, chair of the CSAM Standards Committee and incoming Editor-in-Chief for the Canadian Journal of Addiction (CJA) after being a Deputy Editor for the CJA since 2018. He is also a Member-at-Large for the RCPSC AFC in Addiction Medicine. Dr. Crockford has published in addiction psychiatry throughout his career with 48 peer reviewed papers, 3 book chapters, 4 editorials, and 14 research letters with over 2000 citations and an h-index of 16 per Google Scholar. His published work focuses on education in addiction, concurrent psychiatric and substance use disorders, gambling disorder, and functional brain neuroimaging. He is a past two-time 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 Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and Distinguished Fellow of the Canadian Psychiatric Association.