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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