Root Center for Advanced Recovery welcomes new Chief Medical Officer
November 4, 2021
We are extremely excited to announce the start of our new Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Joseph Podolski. Dr. Podolski brings a vast wealth of clinical and administrative experience to “Root Center”. Most recently, Dr. Podolski held the title of Vice President of Behavioral Health & Chairman of Psychiatry at ECHN & Waterbury Hospital. To obtain someone of Dr. Podolski’s ilk and character, while still very much in the midst of an opioid epidemic, and pandemic, will certainly help to further bolster our support of the most vulnerable in our communities, as well as broaden the clinical training and acumen of our great staff.
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From Left to right: James Classon, Root Center Clinical Supervisor, Elliott Pollack former Board Member, John Mohring, Root Center Board Member, Steven Zuckerman, Root Center CEO and President, Arunan Arulampalam, Mayor of Hartford, Bruce Simmons, Root Center Board Chairman, Patricia Rehmer, former DMHAS Commissioner and Board Vice Chair, William Schumann, Root Center Board Member. David Louden, Root Center Board Member, and Joseph Sirko, Root Center Director of Facilities.
