Addiction Treatment Innovator and Advocate Dr. Marvin Seppala to Retire as Hazelden Betty Ford’s Chief Medical Officer
Marvin D. Seppala, MD, a nationally known psychiatrist and addiction treatment leader who pioneered a new, integrated approach to treating opioid addiction and inspired others with his own story of recovery, will retire as chief medical officer of the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation at the end of 2021.
- Marvin D. Seppala, MD, a nationally known psychiatrist and addiction treatment leader who pioneered a new, integrated approach to treating opioid addiction and inspired others with his own story of recovery, will retire as chief medical officer of the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation at the end of 2021.
- Dr. Seppala, who grew up in southern Minnesota and now lives near Portland, Ore., has been Hazelden Betty Fords chief doctor for most of the past 25 years, with two brief stints of work elsewhere during that time.
- Foremost among Dr. Seppalas many achievements has been the development, implementation and study of Hazelden Betty Fords Comprehensive Opioid Response with the Twelve Steps (COR-12).
- The author of several books on addiction treatment, opioids and pain, Dr. Seppala also served as a board member of the American Society of Addiction Medicine for several years.