Dr.
Timmen L. Cermak, MD
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Dr. Timmen L. Cermak
studied philosophy as an undergraduate at Ohio Wesleyan
University, before graduating from Case Western
Reserve Medical School in 1972. After 2 years with
the Indian Health Service, he entered his psychiatry
residency at Stanford, where he assisted Dr. Stephanie
Brown in creating the first therapy group for adult
children of alcoholics. |
Following a post-doctoral fellowship in neurophysiology
under Dr. Karl Pribram, he served as medical director
of the alcohol inpatient unit at the San Francisco V.A.
hospital from 1982-85. During this time he helped found
the National Association for Children of Alcoholics (NACoA),
serving first as president and then chairman of the board.
He currently has private practice offices in San Francisco
and Mill Valley, CA.
Dr. Cermak is Board Certified in Psychiatry, with a Certificate
of Added Qualification in Addiction Psychiatry. He is
also certified by the American Society of Addiction Medicine
(ASAM). He serves on the Executive Council of the California
Society of Addiction Medicine (CSAM), chaired CSAM’s
task force on medical marijuana and is editor of the society’s
newsletter. He is currently President of CSAM and co-chairs
the subcommittee on Screening, Intervention and Referral
for the Governor’s Prevention Advisory Council.
He is the author of A Primer on Adult Children of Alcoholics,
Diagnosing and Treating Co-dependence, A Time to Heal,
Evaluating and Treating Adult Children of Alcoholics,
and A Time To Heal Workbook. His most recent work, Marijuana:
What’s a Parent to Believe?, was published by
Hazelden in August of 2003.
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