Don Sheeley, MD, ABIM, ABEM, ASAM
120 West Avenue, #203
Saratoga Springs, NY 12866
518 813 8971
donsheeley99@gmail.com
Medication-Assisted Treatment for Addiction
2017 -The Joseph Gerstein Award for Exemplary Service to SMART Recovery
2009-Present: Emergency Physician, Saratoga Hospital Focusing in the Psychiatric Crisis Area
35 years experience in Emergency Medicine, with special interest in psych
1982-2008 Emergency Physician, Glens Falls Hospital
1990-1998. Medical Director of the ED, Glens Falls Hospital
Member of ASAM, the American Society of Addiction Medicine
Board Certification in Internal Medicine and Emergency Medicine
University of Rochester School of Medicine, MD in 1978
500 hours of Psych training in Medical School
Internal Medicine Residency, Rhode Island Hospital 1978-1981
Teaching Attending for 1st Medical Service, RIH, 1981-1982
Milton Hamolsky, MD, Teaching Award, 1982
Board Certification in Internal Medicine, 1982, Permanent.
Board Certification in Emergency Medicine, 1988,1998, 2008-2018
SMART Recovery Activities 2010-Present
Facilitator, ACT SMART Saratoga. 2010-Present, Tuesday Evenings
Frequent Contributor to SMART Blog and Email Commentary Listserve
Creator of SMART Video. “For The Courts”, a 9 minute video presenting the legal requirement to offer non-religious options to offenders
Audio Editor and Commentator for SMART Podcasts, 2011-2016
Proficiency in ACT, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Current Outpatient Practice for Addiction and ACT Psychotherapy in Saratoga Springs, NY
Active usage of ACT in the Emergency Department
ACT Workshops Attended
Steven Hayes PhD, Kirk Strosahl PhD, and Kelly Wilson PhD, ACT Bootcamp
John Forsyth PhD, ACT for Anxiety
Jason Luoma PhD, ACT for Shame and Compassion
Dennis Tirch PhD, Compassion Focused Therapy
Matthew Villatte PhD, Relational Frame Theory and Metaphors
Sue Johnson, PhD, Couples Therapy for the 21st Century
ACT TRAINING WITH DR RUSS HARRIS
ACT for Adlescents
ACT for Trauma
ACT Conferences. (ACBS)
Association for Contextual Behavioral Sciences, Minnesota 2014
Association for Contextual Behavioral Sciences, Seattle 2016
ACT PRESENTATIONS
PRESENTATION AT ACBS, Seattle, June 2016, DISCUSSANT, ACT for Substance Abuse
WORKSHOP, "ACT FOR ADDICTIONS" Albany SUNY School of Social Welfare, 3 hours, April 2017\
EMDR TRAINING
2017, with Ricky Greenwald, from the Childhood Trauma Institute, Northampton, MA
