Medical Director of Addiction Psychiatry

Job Description

Job Description

Company Description

At Henry Ford Health, we're committed to advancing health and improving lives for the millions of people we serve across Michigan and around the world. As one of the nation's leading academic health systems, we provide a comprehensive continuum of care that includes primary and preventive services, specialty and complex care, virtual care, pharmacy, home health, eye care, health insurance, and more. With 12 hospitals and hundreds of ambulatory care locations, including former Ascension Southeast Michigan and Flint Region facilities, our growing network expands access to exceptional care in the communities we serve.

Headquartered in Detroit, Henry Ford Health is helping shape the future of healthcare through the transformative Future of Health: Detroit initiative, a $3 billion investment that is redefining our academic healthcare campus and advancing innovation, research, education, and community impact.

Our work is grounded in purpose, collaboration, and belonging. We empower team members to grow their careers, contribute innovative ideas, and make a meaningful difference every day. Whether you're caring for patients, supporting operations, conducting research, or driving new solutions, you'll be part of a team united by a shared mission: delivering exceptional care, advancing health outcomes, and building healthier communities for all. Job Description

Henry Ford Health is seeking an experienced psychiatrist with expertise in substance use disorders to serve as Medical Director of Addiction Services. The Medical Director for Addiction Services provides strategic, clinical, operational, and physician leadership for a comprehensive continuum of addiction treatment services across a large integrated behavioral health service line. The role oversees medical quality, program development, physician engagement, and clinical integration across residential treatment, partial hospitalization, intensive outpatient programs (IOP), outpatient addiction services, and a hospital-based integrated consultation service.

This physician leader partners closely with behavioral health leadership, and community stakeholders to advance evidence-based addiction care, improve access, reduce stigma, and integrate substance use disorder treatment into the broader healthcare delivery system.

The Medical Director champions a population health approach to addiction treatment while supporting innovation, workforce development, quality outcomes, and equitable access to care across the continuum.

Strategic Leadership

• Develop and execute a system-wide vision for addiction medicine and substance use disorder (SUD) services aligned with organizational priorities.
• Lead growth and integration of addiction services across inpatient, ambulatory, residential, and community settings.
• Advance innovative models of care, including integrated behavioral health, collaborative care, telehealth, harm reduction, and recovery-oriented systems.
• Partner with health system leadership to identify opportunities for expansion, partnerships, and service optimization.
• Represent the health system in regional, state, and national addiction medicine initiatives.

 

Clinical Oversight

• Provide medical leadership and oversight for:
  • Residential treatment facilities
  • Outpatient services
  • Integrated addiction consultation services across acute care hospitals
• Establish and maintain evidence-based clinical standards, protocols, and pathways for treatment of substance use disorders and co-occurring psychiatric conditions.
• Promote excellence in medication treatment for addiction disorders.
• Ensure regulatory compliance with applicable federal, state, accreditation, and licensing standards.
• Support development of standardized withdrawal management and hospital-based addiction care protocols across the system.

• Promote addiction care as a core component of whole-person healthcare delivery.

Quality, Safety & Outcomes

• Establish measurable quality and performance metrics for addiction services.
• Monitor clinical outcomes, patient experience, safety indicators, access metrics, readmissions, and engagement in treatment.
• Support data-driven approaches to improving clinical and operational performance.

Physician & Interdisciplinary Leadership

• Recruit, mentor, and develop physicians and advanced practice providers for addiction services.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, accountability, innovation, and professional growth.
• Support interdisciplinary care models.
• Promote physician wellness and workforce sustainability.

Education, Research & Community Engagement

• Support education and training in addiction medicine across the health system.
• Collaborate with academic partners on research, quality initiatives, and workforce development.
• Advance community partnerships addressing prevention, recovery support, and behavioral health access.
• Promote stigma reduction and culturally responsive care throughout the organization.

Qualifications

• MD or DO degree from an accredited institution
• Completion of Psychiatry or Primary Care or Internal Medicine residency program in addition to completion of addiction psychiatry or addiction medicine fellowship
• Board certification in Psychiatry or Primary Care or Internal Medicine additional board certification in Addiction Psychiatry or Addiction Medicine.
• Current or eligible for medical licensure in the state of Michigan
• Minimum 5–7 years of progressive clinical leadership experience
• Demonstrated experience leading addiction treatment programs across multiple levels of care
• Experience working within complex healthcare systems or academic medical centers