Sports Psychology and Psychiatry: Strategies for Life Balance and Peak Performance

David R. McDuff, M.D. is the long-time sports psychiatrist and mental preparation trainer for the Baltimore Orioles (baseball) and Baltimore Ravens (football). He regularly visits both teams during the pre, playing, and post seasons providing players, coaches, and family members input on team building,stress control, life balance, performance enhancement, mental preparation, injury rehabilitation, substance prevention, supplement use, and mental illness management. In addition to his work at the professional level, Dr. McDuff has worked extensively with division I,II, & III university & college, elite club and high school athletes and teams. From his office practice in Ellicott City, Maryland he works with track, cross country, hockey, soccer and lacrosse teams and sees athletes from all sports but especially distance running, golf,tennis, soccer, baseball, basketball, football, lacrosse, rugby, and hockey. His new book, "Sports Psychiatry: Strategies for Life Balance and Peak Performance" is available through American Psychiatric Publishing athttp://appi.org/SearchCenter/Pages/SearchDetail.aspx?ItemId=62415

In addition to his work in sports,Dr. McDuff is a nationally known expert in addiction medicine and psychiatry.  He founded the addiction medicine fellowship at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in 1989 and regularly teaches principles of addiction prevention, diagnosis and treatment to social work, psychology, and medical students.  He is a clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and was three times named Baltimore's Top Doc in addictions.