LawrenceElliottAdlerMD

Summary

• Dr. Lawrence Adler is a board-certified psychiatrist based in Denver, CO, who completed his residency in psychiatry at the University of Colorado in 1982, following his graduation from Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in 1976. He completed a post-graduate research fellowship in Biological Psychiatry and Research at the University of Colorado under the direction of Dr. Robert Freedman. He also completed additional supervision in psychoanalytic psychotherapy. He received his undergraduate degree from The Johns Hopkins University and completed advanced courses in biostatistics at the JHU School of Hygiene and Public Health. He specializes in schizophrenia, bipolar disorders, depression, and military psychiatry. He was the recipient of multiple research grants, including NIMH Research Scientist Development Awards Level I and Level II, R01s, and VA Merit Reviews. He has published over 110 papers in refereed journals. Research was in neurophysiology and neuropharmacology of schizophrenia and psychosis. He served as Professor, Vice-Chair, Dept of Psychiatry, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, Chief of Mental Health, Denver VAMC, and then Chief, VISN 19 MIRECC- VA Mental Illness Research and Clinical Center with a focus on suicide, trauma, CTE, and schizophrenia. Dr. also served as a CAPT(06) in the US Naval Reserve Medical Corps and in Fleet Hospital 6, Desert Storm. He retired from academics to private practice in psychiatry in 2010, retiring from private practice in Dec 2023. At present, he has turned his attention to cybersecurity in mental health care and has completed the Google Certificate in Cybersecurity, and two review courses for the CompTIA Security+ 701 Exam. He is currently studying to pass the CompTIA exams in Security+, Linux +, and Network+ N10-009, which he hopes to do in the next 6-8 months.