Clifford Cabansag, MD
OTP Medical Director / Addiction Medicine Physician
Clifford Cabansag, MD
Medical Director | Sojourner Recovery Services
Service Area
Recovery Services
Service Location
Commerce
Education
Addiction Medicine Fellowship – Cincinnati VAMC / University of Cincinnati, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Neuroscience; Diplomate of the American Board of Addiction Medicine; Fellow of the American Society of Addiction Medicine; Internal Medicine Residency – Kettering Medical Center / Wright State University; MD – Loma Linda University School of Medicine; BS in Molecular Biology & Microbiology and a Minor and Certificate in Gerontology, University of Central Florida.
Clinical Interest
Substance use disorders, opioid use disorders, tobacco use disorder, alcohol use disorder, co-occuring depressive and anxiety disorders, Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy, SMART Recovery.
Approach To Care
Emphasis on whole patient care including a developmental approach across the lifespan. Substance Use Disorders (SUDs) are chronic conditions like diabetes, hypertension, epilepsy/seizures and migraines. Like these other chronic conditions, SUDs can be successfully managed with medications and other treatments. Patients doing well with medication-assisted treatment (MAT) are virtually indistinguishable from the general population – with the exception of taking a daily medication – which most people also take.
Professional / Personal Highlights
Honors – Understanding Your Patient (Intro to Psychopathology), LLUSM Department of Psychiatry; Ruth Fox Conference Scholarship Award, American Society of Addiction Medicine; (Certified) Tobacco Treatment Specialist (TTS), Breathing Association of Ohio; SMART Recovery Facilitators Training. Basic conversational and medical Spanish.
Personal Interest
SMART Recovery Facilitator of a weekly meeting since 2017. Medical Missions to the Masai People, Masai Mara, Kenya.