Child & adolescent and addiction psychiatrist

Specialties & Experience of this Expert Witness

Additional Information

Dr. Stephen Taylor is board-certified in general psychiatry, child and adolescent psychiatry, addiction psychiatry, and addiction medicine. In more than 30 years of practice experience, and as an educator, presenter and advocate, Dr. Taylor’s life’s work has been to help adolescents and adults avoid or overcome addiction disorders and co-occurring general psychiatric disorders. Having served 16 years as the Medical Director of the Player Assistance and Anti-Drug Program of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the National Basketball Players Association (NBPA), Dr. Taylor also serves as the Chief Medical Officer of Pathway Healthcare, a company that has opened and is operating outpatient addiction and mental health treatment offices across several states. Dr. Taylor is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a Distinguished Fellow of the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM), and he is currently serving as the President and Chair of the Board of Directors of ASAM. He also serves as Chair of ASAM's Delegation to the AMA House of Delegates. Dr. Taylor is a certified Medical Review Officer (MRO) and serves on the Board of Directors of the Medical Review Officer Certification Council (MROCC). He has also served on the Drug Testing Advisory Board (DTAB) of the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), and on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Foundation for Opioid Recovery Efforts (FORE), a non-profit organization dedicated to funding research and prevention interventions to address the opioid and addiction crisis. An honors graduate of Harvard College, with a Master of Public Health degree from the Harvard School of Public Health and a medical degree from Howard University College of Medicine, Dr. Taylor completed "Triple Board" residency training in pediatrics, psychiatry and child and adolescent psychiatry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Bronx Municipal Hospital Center, and then completed a fellowship in addiction psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine/Bellevue Hospital Center.