NBA psychiatrist to speak on collegiate alcohol use

Homewood High School will host featured speaker Dr. Stephen Taylor for an awareness presentation about alcohol use on college campuses titled, “I’ll Drink to That! How We Can Make College Drinking Safer and Saner.”  All Homewood High parents are invited to attend this special program on April 14 from 12-1:30 p.m. in the auditorium. 

The program will discuss alcohol use on college campuses, binge drinking, and what parents can do to help with the pressures facing kids as they head to college campuses.

Taylor, an adolescent and addiction psychiatrist with 19 years of experience, serves as the medical director of the Player Assistance/Anti-Drug Program of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the National Basketball Player Association (NBPA).  He is also certified by the American Board of Addiction Medicine as a specialist in addiction medicine, and he has focused his training and expertise, both as a private practitioner and as an educator/presenter, on the specialized care of adolescents and young adults with drug and alcohol abuse and addiction illnesses and general psychiatric disorders. 

Taylor has been a featured speaker and educator for large corporations, such as the NBA and Lilly USA; professional associations; and numerous gatherings of physicians, education professionals, and community groups. He is an honors graduate of Harvard College and earned his medical degree from the Howard University College of Medicine as well as a Master of Public Health (M.P.H.) degree from the Harvard School of Public Health.  After completing “Triple Board” residency training in pediatrics, general psychiatry and child/adolescent psychiatry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Bronx Municipal Hospital Center in The Bronx, New York, Taylor completed additional subspecialty training in the field of alcoholism and drug abuse treatment at New York University/Bellevue Hospital Center.