M.D., MPH, Senior Consultant - Pain Relief Network
Greater New York City Area
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- Senior Consultant, Expert Medical Witness, and Webmaster at Pain Relief Network
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- Chief and Medical Director at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital
- Senior Attending at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital
- Associate Director for Medicine (Smithers) at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital
- Education
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- Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University
- Vassar College
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Alexander DeLuca, M.D., MPH’s Summary
Alexander DeLuca was born in NYC in 1955. He attended Vassar and received his M.D. from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He completed Montefiore's Residency Program in Social Medicine, became board certified in Family Medicine and Addiction Medicine and an ASAM fellow, chaired ASAM's Review Course 1998-2000, and earned an Masters of Public Health degree from Columbia University in 2005.
From 1990, he was medical director at the Smithers Addiction Treatment Center, and was chief there 1998-2000. After, DeLuca did private practice in psychopharmacology, opioid pain management, and treatment of substance use disorders in a primary care setting.
Dr. DeLuca is an independent consultant specializing in addiction and pain medicine. Currently Senior Policy Analyst, Expert Medical Witness, and board member of the Pain Relief Network, Alex is also a long-time advocate of harm reduction and is a friend and informal advisor to the leadership of Moderation Management, Inc., having been more active in that organization 2000-2003.
DeLuca's Addiction, Pain and Public Health website, aka doctordeluca.com, is a rich resource of full text academic and journalistic resources and collections of related documents, and is especially focused on the areas of chronic pain, opioid therapy, the war on doctors, and substance use disorders - especially alcohol abuse and alcohol and opioid dependence including detoxification.
In April 2007 the War on Doctors/Pain Crisis blog of the Pain Relief Network, was launched. In January 2008, PRN's Chronic Pain Forums opened at http://painreliefnetwork.org/forum/ and Membership there has grown very rapidly.
Dr. DeLuca is updating and reworking his 2004 historical overview, entitled: War on Drugs, War on Doctors, and the Pain Crisis in America, for peer-reviewed publication (hopefully) in 2008.
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(Last revised: 2008-04-08)
Alexander DeLuca, M.D., MPH’s Specialties:
Other areas of experience and expertise:
* medication development consultation services, from pilot study design to medical and patent lit review, to the FDA regulatory process, document preparation, and meetings;
* treatment system design, especially the integration of addiction and pain therapy and the incorporation of clinical research teams into the fabric of medical treatment systems, towards better patient outcomes and development of research generated revenue streams.
Alexander DeLuca, M.D., MPH’s Experience
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Senior Consultant, Expert Medical Witness, and Webmaster
Pain Relief Network
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Public Policy industry)
2004 — Present (4 years)
Pain Relief Network was founded in 2002 in response to the Bush Administration's crackdown on pain treating physicians. The Department of Justice launched its "Oxycontin Action Plan" in response to a DEA press campaign that asserted that Purdue Pharmaceuticals had unleashed an "epidemic" of drug abuse across the country, particularly in rural Appalachia. (The DEA’s OxyContin Action Plan: An Unproven Drug Epidemic)
Our Mission - To understand the legal and procedural mechanisms that result in certain conviction. To alert the media, and to help, as much as possible, the private attorneys who became involved in these overwhelming cases.
The Controlled Substances Act is fundamentally unlawful in that it deprives doctors and patients of their Constitutional rights. PRN would like to bring sanity, reason and compassion to this urgent debate, we need your help to do it. -
Chief and Medical Director
St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital
(Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; Hospital & Health Care industry)
1998 — 2000 (2 years)
Chief and Medical Director, Smithers Addiction Treatment and Research
Center (Smithers); and,
Head, Division of Combined Substance Abuse Services,
St. Luke’s / Roosevelt Hospital Center (SLRHC), New York City, 10019 -
Senior Attending
St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital
(Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; Hospital & Health Care industry)
1999 — 2000 (1 year)
Senior Attending Physician, SLRCH, New York City, 10019
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Associate Director for Medicine (Smithers)
St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital
(Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; Hospital & Health Care industry)
1994 — 1998 (4 years)
Associate Director for Medicine, Smithers, SLRHC, New York City, 10019
• Designed and implemented an Evaluation Unit to assess withdrawal, medical, and psychosocial problems of all patients using standardized,
validated assessment tools were employed to determine appropriate level of
care, based on the ASAM Patient Placement Criteria (PPC).
• Established, with Jeffrey Foote, Ph.D., a research center within the Evaluation Unit. This effort produced, as of 7/2000, some three million dollars in federal funding.
• Conceptualized, developed and programmed a computer database system, Trax!, which greatly facilitated our research and grant acquisition efforts, and ongoing program improvement.
• Greatly expanded outpatient detox from what had been an inpatient-only program.
Alexander DeLuca, M.D., MPH’s Education
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Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University
1977 — 1981
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Vassar College
BA, Biopsychology, 1973 — 1977
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