As an American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM) certified physician, Dr. Jeffrey Stuckert, M.D. has practiced clinical emergency medicine in Ohio for 29 years. He currently serves as the Medical Director of Northland, an outpatient drug and alcohol treatment center near Cincinnati, and has personally attended to more than 70,000 emergency-room patients. Dr. Stuckert has served as Chairman and Medical Director of Emergency Medicine Departments of both the Christ Hospital and Deaconess Hospital for 22 of his 29 years, supervising all clinical personnel and administrative operations of those divisions. This includes the supervision of over 100 emergency physicians, more than 100 emergency medicine residents and hundreds of nurses and ancillary staff. Dr. Stuckert has practiced addiction medicine on a full time basis for the last year.

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