Faculty - John A. Bailey, M.D.
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John A. Bailey, M.D. Clinical Assistant Professor |
Dr. John Bailey graduated from Coastal Carolina University with honors, earned his M.D. at the Medical University of South Carolina, and completed an anesthesiology residency at MUSC where he received the Robert D. Dripps, M.D. award for being the outstanding graduating anesthesiology resident. He then went into private practice in anesthesiology and pain management in Conway, S.C. where he developed a busy interventional chronic pain practice. He completed a two year ASAM Fellowship in Addiction Medicine/Pain Medicine at the University of Florida and became the medical director of the Refuge, a dual diagnosis residential treatment facility specializing in PTSD and addiction. He developed a lecture series for Refuge patients and their families on topics such as the disease of addiction, and PTSD.
Dr. Bailey is currently an assistant professor providing clinical care and resident/fellow teaching in the chronic pain/addiction medicine division of the Department of Psychiatry. He is Board certified in Anesthesiology, as well as Addiction Medicine, and recently took the ABPM Board exam in pain management. He is also one of the few non-psychiatrists to pass the ASCP Certification exam in advanced clinical psychopharmacology. He has co-authored papers on pain management, addiction medicine, iatrogenic addiction, marijuana and teaches medical students, residents, and fellows at the University of Florida. He has participated in research involving implantable spinal cord stimulators for anginal pain, and gastric stimulators for the treatment of obesity.
Dr. Bailey currently serves on the Governor's Task Force on Drug Overdose, and has presented lectures at National Conferences on Neuroscience, Addiction, PTSD, Pain Management, and ADHD. In 2002, Dr. Bailey was named the science alumnus of the year by Coastal Carolina University. He was an interviewer for prospective medical students at MUSC, and served on the SC Physicians Advocacy Committee. He is a member of the American Society of Addiction Medicine, the Florida Society of Addiction Medicine, the American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology, and the American Society of Pain Management. Still a passionate surfer when time allows, he is a former east coast surfing champion, and three time runner-up national champion. He has run the Chicago Marathon for the Leukemia and Lymphoma society.