Dr. Allen is the Medical Director of Rushford Center, Chief of Psychiatry at Midstate Medical Center, and Vice President of Addiction Services for the Behavioral Health Network of Hartford Healthcare. Dr. Allen is on the state of Connecticut’s Alcohol and Drug Policy Council co-chairing the treatment subcommittee; on the Advisory Board for the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, and for the State Medical Society serves on the Addiction Medicine Committee and Opioid Task Force. Dr. Allen has held faculty appointments at Harvard and Yale Medical schools and is currently an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine and Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Quinnipiac University, Frank Netter School of Medicine. In addition, Dr. Allen trains Addiction Medicine fellows in Rushford’s ACGME accredited Addiction Medicine fellowship program, and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellows and Psychiatry Residents from Hartford Hospital’s Institute of Living. Dr. Allen lectures and advocates locally and nationally for prevention, screening, early intervention and treatment access for Substance use and other Psychiatric disorders throughout the lifespan. He is board certified in Addiction Medicine and Child, Adolescent and Adult Psychiatry and see’s patients at Rushford and through his private practice in Branford, CT.

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  Advisor in TryCycle Data Systems

  Working Together to “Try” to Break the “Cycle” of addiction, depression, loneliness and other mental health challenges.