ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS, PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS, AND HONORS
Positions and Employment:
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of Colorado School of Medicine, 2007-present
Medical Director, Center for Dependence, Addiction and Rehabilitation (CeDAR), University of Colorado Hospital, 2007-present
Medical Director, Substance Use Disorders Service, Outpatient Behavioral Health Services, Denver Health Medical Center (DHMC), 1998-2007
Training Director, Addiction Psychiatry (PGY-5) Residency Program, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center (UCHSC), 1995-2008
Advanced Physician Specialist, Denver General Hospital/Denver Health Medical Center (DGH/DHMC), 1992-2007
Clinical Affiliate, University of Denver, School of Professional Psychology, 1991-1994
Medical Director, Inpatient Addiction Psychiatry Service 4-East, DGH/DHMC, 1989
Attending, Psychiatric Consultation Service, DGH/DHMC, 1989-1998
Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of Colorado School of Medicine, 1988-2007
Director, Psychiatric Emergency and Consultation Service, DGH, 1984-1989
Psychiatrist II, DGH, 1982-1992
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Colorado School of Medicine, 1979-1988
Ward Chief, Adult Psychiatric Inpatient Service 4-West, DGH, 1978-1984
Psychiatrist I, DGH, 1978-1982
Instructor in Psychiatry, University of Colorado School of Medicine,1978-1979
Resident, Dept. of Psychiatry, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver CO, 1975-1978
Emergency Room Physician, Anna Jaques Hospital, Newburyport, MA, 1974-1975
Emergency Room Physician, Morton Hospital, Taunton, MA, 1974
Temporary General Medical Officer, Indian Health Service, Sacaton, AZ and Fort Yates, ND, 1974
Clinical Associate in Medicine, Harvard Medical School, 1973-1974
Intern, Dept. of Internal Medicine, Beth Israel Hospital, Boston MA, 1973-1974
Premedical Adviser, Dunster House, Harvard College 1972-1974
Honors:
Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, 1990
Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, 2003
Listed: 5280 Denver’s Mile High Magazine Denver’s Top Doctors, Addiction Psychiatry, October, 2004, October, 2007, October 2008, October 2009
Teaching Activities:
Course Leader year-long hospital psychiatry seminar for PGY III psychiatric residents, 1978-1983 - leading seminar sessions on differential diagnosis of organic brain syndromes, use of antipsychotic medications, management of schizophrenia, management of mania, the special patient, large inpatient groups and community meetings, use of seclusion and restraint, drug abuse
Clinical supervisor for outpatient psychotherapy for one PGY II resident, 1978-1980
Clinical supervisor for inpatient psychiatry for 2-4 PGY III residents, 1977-1984,1994
Clinical supervisor for consultation psychiatry for one PGY IV resident, 1984-1990; 4 residents, 1990-1998
Clinical supervisor for 1-2 PGY I or II residents, addiction psychiatry service, 1989-2007
Section instructor, 2nd year medical student human behavior course, 1987-1992
"Eating Disorders" three seminar sessions for PGY IV residents, 1989-1992
Consultation Psychiatry Course; 2 seminars on substance abuse for PGY III residents, 1992- 1998
Course Director, Addiction Psychiatry Reading Seminar for PGY -V addiction residents, leading seminars on dual diagnosis, relapse prevention, nicotine, natural history of alcoholism, brain reward mechanisms, and motivational interviewing, 1995 - 2008
Clinical supervisor, PGY-V Addiction Resident: consultation service, 1996-1997; inpatient service, 1996-present; outpatient service, 1998-present.
Teaching Faculty, Introduction to Addiction Course for PGY-5 addiction residents, 1998-2007
Teaching Faculty, 12-Step Recovery Seminar for PGY-5 addiction residents 2006
Clinical Activities:
Attending and Medical Director, CeDAR, University of Colorado Hospital, 2007-present
Private practice of psychiatry (1978- present) and addiction psychiatry (1994-present)
SCHOLARSHIPS AND PUBLICATIONS
Peer-Reviewed Publications:
Ritvo, J.I., Park C.”The Psychiatric Management of Patients with Alcohol Dependence” Current Treatment Opinions in Neurology 9:381-392, 2007
Ritvo, J.I., Koonce, R., Thurstone, C.C., Causey III, H.L. “Tramadol Dependence: Treatment with Buprenorphine/Naloxone” American Journal on Addictions 16:67-68, 2007 (letter to the editor)
Greenberg, WM, Ritvo, JI, Fazzio, L. et al., “A Survey of Addiction Training Programming in Psychiatry Residencies” Academic Psychiatry 26 (2): 105-109, 2002
Gomez, H.F., Brent, J.A., Munoz, D.C., Mimmack, R.F., Ritvo, J.I. et. al. “Charcoal Stercolith with Intestinal Perforation in a Patient Treated for Amitriptyline Ingestion” Journal of Emergency Medicine 12 (1): 39-60, 1994.
Ritvo, J.I. "Staffing Patterns and the Weekly Cycle of Community Meetings on an Adult Inpatient Unit" Hospital and Community Psychiatry, 33: 384-385, 1982.