Addiction Services
Program Leaders
Susan Hardesty, MD
Vice president and medical director, The Menninger Clinic, and medical director of Menninger Addiction Services
As medical director, Susan Hardesty, MD, oversees the medical staff at Menninger and all assessment and treatment programs. She joined The Clinic in the fall of 2009 after holding the same post at the Institute of Psychiatry and serving as vice chair of Clinical Services for the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) in Charleston.
She has worked as an inpatient psychiatrist and hospitalist at MUSC, developing clinical expertise and research on acute treatment of bipolar and psychotic illnesses as well as forensic psychiatry over 15 years. Dr. Hardesty has co-authored papers on medication management, treatment outcomes and quality service delivery.
She is board certified in psychiatry and forensic psychiatry, and is an active member of the American Psychiatric Association and the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law.
After earning her undergraduate degree from Winthrop College, she worked for 17 years in the chemical and textile industries in various chemist and occupational health and safety management roles. To grow in her career, she completed medical school at the University of North Carolina and did her residency in psychiatry at MUSC. Rather than return to the field of occupational health, she chose to switch paths and practice psychiatric medicine. Brain pathology and people’s response to their brain disorder have been for her the most exciting and challenging areas of medicine in which to practice.
The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) honored Dr. Hardesty with the 2009 National Exemplary Psychiatrist Award and South Carolina NAMI selected her as the 2009 Psychiatrist of the Year for integrating mental health advocates in the process of improving hospital treatment and incorporating trauma-focused care initiatives at MUSC. The initiatives resulted in substantial improvements in patient safety and engagement in care.
 Edythe Harvey, MD
Medical director, Hope Adult Treatment Program, The Menninger Clinic; assistant professor, Menninger Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine
Dr. Harvey is a senior addictions professional at Menninger. She also leads the interdisciplinary treatment team and provides individual and group therapy for the Hope Program.
Dr. Harvey graduated from Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center then completed her internship, residency and chief residency at St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital Center in New York, NY. Upon completing her residency, she joined the faculty at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine. She then joined the faculty of Baylor College of Medicine in January 2000 where she held the positions of assistant professor and medical director, Psychiatry Emergency Center, Ben Taub General Hospital. She joined Menninger as staff psychiatrist in 2006.
Dr. Harvey is a member of several psychiatric associations, has spoken at numerous international and national conferences and was selected as a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association in 2008.
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