Professional Experience:

Antonio M. Bird, MD, PA, Asheville, NC.

General and Addiction Psychiatry

Private Practice, November 2001 - present.

Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC.

Counseling and Psychological Services Center

Psychiatrist, September 2009 - May 2011.

Alpha Omega Health, Marshall, NC.

Community Mental Health Agency.

Psychiatrist, Assertive Community Treatment Team, April 2007 - December 2008.

Provided intensive services to a population of severely and persistently mentally ill clients.

Pavillon International, Mill Spring, NC.

Residential Addiction Treatment Center.

Interim Medical Director, January - February 2000.

Psychiatric services as needed, August 2001 - September 2005.

Julian F. Keith Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment Center, Black Mountain, NC.

Staff Psychiatrist, June 1999 - May 2003.

Responsible for psychiatric assessment, medication management, and leadership to women’s residential addiction treatment unit.  Assisted in developing protocols and procedures for newly created crisis/detoxification unit.

Education and Training:

Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC

Fellowship in Addiction Psychiatry

July, 1998 - June, 1999.

 

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Residency in Adult Psychiatry

July, 1994 - June, 1998.

 

State University of New York at Buffalo School of Medicine

M.D. cum laude awarded May, 1994.

             

Post-baccalaureate education

1988-1989:  Completed pre-medical requirements at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and the State University of New York at Albany.

 

Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

B.A. in English modified with Film Studies awarded June, 1988.

 

Academia Perpetuo Socorro, Miramar, PR

H.S. diploma awarded May, 1983.

 

 

Honors:

 

Full academic scholarship to SUNY at Buffalo School of Medicine.

 

Award for Clinical Excellence is Psychiatry, presented by SUNY at Buffalo Department of Psychiatry.

 

Organizations and Licensure:

 

Licensed by North Carolina Medical Board.

 

Board Certified (Diplomate) in Adult Psychiatry and Addiction Psychiatry, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.

 

American Psychiatric Association

 

North Carolina Psychiatric Association

 

North Carolina Medical Society

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