Caron Treatment Centers names chief medical officer

Caron Treatment Centers has named Dr. Adam Scioli chief medical officer for the nonprofit behavioral health center.

The Wernersville, Berks County-based facility said Scioli will serve on its executive leadership team, reporting directly to Caron Chief Executive Officer John Driscoll.

Scioli will oversee all medical services at Caron, including psychiatry, psychology and neuropsychology, and Caron’s expanded neurocognitive services.

Caron, which operates two addiction-focused medical centers The Carol and Ray Neag Center in Wernersville and The Keele Center in Florida, said Scioli will oversee Caron’s research program at the Fran and Doug Tieman Center for Research, as well as the Addiction Medicine Fellowship program and Caron’s medical education efforts.

Scioli is also a leader on Caron’s interdisciplinary Neurorestorative Health Program which focuses on optimizing and restoring brain health functionality compromised by substance use and issues such as trauma, anxiety and depression, the center said.

“While this promotion is a well-deserved recognition of Adam’s significant contributions at Caron, it also demonstrates our commitment to treating the disease of substance use disorder (SUD) as the brain disease it is ,” Driscoll said.

“The role of chief medical officer has a long history at Caron, reflecting our dedication to health care and ensuring consistency of medical philosophy and care throughout the Caron continuum,” Driscoll said. “Adam’s leadership will enable Caron to continue implementing evidence-based and medically appropriate treatments for their substance use and behavioral health disorders, while helping us to advance the treatment of these diseases at its root the brain.”

Driscoll said with individuals presenting in treatment with more complex and co-morbid conditions at a greater rate than before, the medical sophistication that Scioli and his team provide and their approach to these diseases are invaluable to providing this lifesaving, transformational health care.

“Adam is already spearheading Caron’s brain health and neurorestorative care initiative, which he said will transform addiction treatment,” he added.

“I am honored by the opportunity to further advance the practice of addiction medicine, both here and throughout the treatment sector,” Scioli said. “Substance Use Disorders are diseases, and they need to be treated as such. Medical research is rapidly advancing our understanding of these diseases and how they affect the brain, and Caron is committed to incorporating advances in medicine into clinical practice in the treatment of SUD.”

Scioli has been a medical leader at Caron Treatment Centers since July 2015, most recently serving as the corporate medical director and head of psychiatry.

He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and New York College of Osteopathic Medicine. He completed an internship at St. Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx, New York and later completed his psychiatry residency training at Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia, where he was chief resident for two years and was conferred the title of Distinguished Laughlin Fellow for professional achievement, dedication and scholarship.

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