Biography
John Kavanaugh is a board certified psychiatrist focused on substance use and psychiatric treatment access for vulnerable populations in New Mexico. He serves as medical director at UNM's outpatient Addiction and Substance Abuse Program (ASAP) where he provides direct patient care and teaches a variety of students and residents who rotate through the clinic. Working together with UNM's Jail Diversion Service team, he helped start a new bridge clinic providing psychiatric and substance use disorder treatment for patients who are justice involved. Additionally, Dr. Kavanaugh is the psychiatrist on UNM's street medicine team. This allows him to go directly into the community to provide psychiatric and substance use disorder care to people experiencing homelessness. He completed medical school and his psychiatric residency program at UNM. Prior to this he completed a Masters in Biology at UNM and a BA in philosophy and liberal arts at St. John's College in Santa Fe, NM.
Personal Statement
Psychiatrists at UNM provide an important service in treating psychiatric disorders, including substance use disorders, while also teaching the next generation of medical providers. We have an ethical and professional duty to provide the best evidence-based treatment and to deliver this with kindness and compassion.
Areas of Specialty
Addiction Medicine Street Psychiatry
Education
Chief Resident, Outpatient, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM Psychiatry Residency, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM Family Medicine Residency, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque/Santa Fe, NM MD, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, New Mexico MS, University of New Mexico, Biology Department, Focus of Studies: Zoology (esp. Mammalogy) & Conservation Biology BA, St. John's College, Annapolis, MD and Santa Fe, NM
Certifications
General Psychiatry
Achievements & Awards
Clinical Ethics Certification - UNM ECT Certification - UNM Integrative Medicine in Residency Psychiatry certification - University of Arizona Tucson Rural and Urban Underserved Program Certificate of Achievement - UNM
Courses Taught
Multiple Addiction Medicine topics to Psychiatry Residents and the School of Medicine
Research and Scholarship
Kavanaugh J, Hardison ME, Rogers HH, White C, Gross J. Assessing the Impact of a Shinrin-Yoku (Forest Bathing) Intervention on Physician/Healthcare Professional Burnout: A Randomized, Controlled Trial. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Nov 4;19(21):14505. doi: 10.3390/ijerph192114505. PMID: 36361384; PMCID: PMC9658142.