Biography

Founder, Chief Executive Officer

Jason Schiffman

MD, MA, MBA

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Jason Eric Schiffman, MD, MA, MBA is the founder of Camden Center. He is a Diplomate of the National Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and is certified in Addiction Medicine by the American Board of Preventive Medicine. He is also the founder and Medical Director of the UCLA Dual Diagnosis Program and has written extensively on the subjects of addiction, trauma, anxiety, and depression in both the academic and popular press. He completed his residency in psychiatry at the UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior. He is a graduate of the MD/MBA program at the University of Southern California and received a Masters of Arts degree in Linguistics from UCLA where he specialized in syntax and semantics. Dr. Schiffman has extensive research experience in psychopharmacology and molecular biology and is the author of numerous scientific publications in these fields.

At Camden Center, Dr. Schiffman has pioneered the development of integrated healthcare systems for the treatment of psychiatric and addictive disorders that match patients with personalized treatments optimized for their unique biological, developmental, and psychological profile. The Camden model of care identifies and treats both the symptoms and causes of mental health disorders through diagnostic evaluation, feedback-based treatment planning, and the matching of patients with individualized, multidisciplinary teams of expert clinicians. Dr. Schiffman’s goal in the creation of Camden Center was to provide a facility offering compassionate, world-class treatment and the opportunity for each patient to achieve true recovery.

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