LEGACY BUILDING
IN SOCIAL WORK:

Dr. Ritu Bhatnagar is an addiction psychiatrist. She is also clinical adjunct professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health Department of Psychiatry. She is currently president of the Wisconsin Society of Addiction Medicine (WISAM), and is serving on the Medicaid Advisory Committee. She is the WISAM representative to the Council of Legislation for the Wisconsin Medical Society and the State Council of Alcohol and Other Drugs of Abuse. She enjoys integrating her work with community endeavors to develop novel ways to address the impact of substance use and mental health disorders. She prefers to treat the whole person and realizes that there are different pathways to recovery. She is interested in helping to change the social perspective of addressing substance use away from punishment and towards treatment. She graduated from the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine with MD and MPH and then Psychiatry Residency and the Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship at the UW.