Alexis Ritvo, M.D., M.P.H.

Biography

Alexis Ritvo, M.D., M.P.H., is a board-certified addiction psychiatrist. She is Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship Program director and assistant professor at the University of Colorado (CU) School of Medicine in the Department of Psychiatry. She serves as Medical Director of a national non-profit organization, the Alliance for Benzodiazepine Best Practices. She is co-founder and co-chair of the Benzodiazepine Action Work Group within the Colorado Consortium for Prescription Drug Abuse.

Born and raised in Denver, she graduated cum laude in social anthropology from Harvard University in 2005. She earned her medical degree and a Master of Public Health in health policy from Emory University in 2012. In 2016 she completed her general psychiatry residency at CU, where she was chief resident of the outpatient clinic. The following year she completed her addiction psychiatry fellowship at CU, followed by the Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Training Program with the Denver Psychoanalytic Society in 2018. She has a passion for psychotherapy, medical education, and improving health systems and policies.