Patricia Halligan, MD

Patricia Halligan, MD, is a psychiatrist with fellowship training in addiction psychiatry from the Medical University of South Carolina after completing her psychiatry residency at Cornell-The New York Hospital and earning her MD from Georgetown University School of Medicine. According to her professional biography, she is board certified in both psychiatry and addiction psychiatry and previously served as an attending psychiatrist at Unity Chemical Dependency in Rochester, where she developed a Suboxone program for patients with opioid use disorder. She also serves on the medical advisory board of the Benzodiazepine Information Coalition, reflecting a sustained professional focus on addiction treatment and benzodiazepine deprescribing.