Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
Columbia University, New York
Carl Erik Fisher, M.D., is an addiction physician, bioethicist, and person in recovery. He is an assistant professor of clinical psychiatry at Columbia University, a fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and the American Society of Addiction Medicine, and a member of the American Psychiatric Association’s Council on Psychiatry and Law. He is the author of the nonfiction book The Urge: Our History of Addiction, published by Penguin Press in January 2022 and named one of the best books of the year by both The New Yorker and The Boston Globe. He has published his academic work in JAMA; The American Journal of Bioethics; The Journal of Medical Ethics, and elsewhere, and his writing for the public has appeared in outlets including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, and Slate. Dr. Fisher also maintains a private psychiatry practice with a particular focus on psychotherapeutic approaches incorporating mindfulness and meditation. He is the host of the Flourishing After Addiction podcast, a deep-dive interview series exploring addiction and recovery, and he writes at the Substack newsletter “Rat Park.”
Addiction Medicine in Carceral Settings across the Globe
Saturday, April 6, 2024
1:15 PM – 2:30 PM
