Christopher La Tourette La Riche is double board-certified (by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology) in Adult Psychiatry and Addiction Psychiatry. He is an expert psycho-pharmacologist, an award-winning psychotherapist and an international keynote speaker and educator on addiction and the neuroscience of trauma and mood disorders. He was the founding medical director at Elements Behavioral Health’s first start-up facility, Lucida Treatment Center, which prioritizes evidence-based treatment of addiction and mental health disorders. Dr. La Riche has an extensive background in the humanities and entered medicine after a career in education and the arts. He received his undergraduate degree from Yale University in Comparative Literature, a Master’s degree from Columbia University’s department of Applied Linguistics and is a fluent speaker of six languages (English, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, German and French). He lectures and sees patients in all of these languages.
He has an unusually broad vision of addiction and mental health treatment including involvement in the public sector (medicaid/medicare models), County Hospitals (public psychiatry), insurance-based and out-of-network models, community mental health, the “Medical Home” model, Academic medicine and medical education, Concierge private practice, and international models of addiction and mental health care (Paraguay, Brazil, Italy). He has contributed to creating public policy on addiction treatment on a variety of levels, both local (the Palm Beach County opiate epidemic) and international (Paraguay’s first-ever addiction treatment conference, Brazil’s national Neuropsychology annual meeting). He is an impassioned educator involved in outreach, marketing and increasing public awareness for the humane and neuroscience-based treatment of people with addictions and mental health disorders. He is voluntary assistant professor of psychiatry at Florida International University and has received the highest honor awarded to any educator from the University of Miami: The George Paff Award for Excellence in Medical Education.
Presentation(s):
The Child is Father of the Man: Neurobiological Crossroads of Trauma, Addiction & Mood Disorders