Dr. Aaron Savedoff, MD

Aaron Savedoff, M.D., is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry in the Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine, and has a wide variety of experience practicing in many different areas of psychiatry.  In addition to private practice, he works as a supervising psychiatrist in the Emergency Department at Mount Sinai West and Mount Sinai Morningside hospitals.  

Dr. Savedoff has been a staff psychiatrist at John Jay College and Fordham University.  He has been a teaching attending at the Zirinsky Center at Mount Sinai Beth Israel, a research center for Bipolar Disorder.  He has also been a staff psychiatrist at the Addiction Institute of Mount Sinai.

Dr. Savedoff has ample experience in treating addiction.  He has worked in the detox setting treating various types of acute withdrawal syndromes.  He has also worked in the rehabilitation setting helping patients to heal from their dependencies long term.

He has expertise in treating dependencies on Alcohol, sedatives such as Benzodiazepines and Barbiturates, stimulants such as Adderall and Methamphetamine, Opioids, Cocaine, Crystal meth, Cannabis, and various other prescription and non-prescription drugs.  He is certified to treat opioid addiction with Suboxone and Buprenorphine.

Dr. Savedoff is also experienced in treating non-substance types of addiction such as internet, pornography, gaming and gambling addiction. Dr. Savedoff is knowledgeable about a wide variety of alternative methods of treating addiction including the use of psychedelics.

Dr. Savedoff is Board Certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.