Dr. Gail Marie Basch, MD

Biography
Gail Basch, M.D. serves as Director of the Alcohol and Substance Abuse Program for the Department of Psychiatry at Rush University Medical Center. A practicing clinician and certified member of the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) and the American Board of Addiction Medicine (ABAM), Dr. Basch is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Rush Medical College.
She received her medical degree from Chicago Medical School in 1988 after completing her undergraduate studies at Loyola University Chicago.
Her major interests and clinical contributions include Addiction Medicine and Mood Disorders. She supervises and teaches Rush psychiatry residents and medical students with an emphasis on Addiction Medicine. The Alcohol Medical Scholars Program recently awarded Dr. Basch a two-year scholarship for training in addiction education. She is an active member of the multi-disciplinary Addiction Research Working Group.
Dr. Basch was recently selected to participate …in the Rush Medical College Physicianship Program to train medical students and also participates in the Rush Professional Assistance Committee. Within the Psychiatry residency, Dr. Basch serves on several committees including the Residency Admissions Committee, the Residency Steering Committee, and the Department of Psychiatry Continuing Medical Education Committee.
Dr Basch is a consulting psychiatrist to the Robert Crowne Center’s 2019s Heroin Prevention Project, and a staff psychiatrist at Chicago’s 2019s Community Health Clinic.
Dr. Basch has been to Haiti four times to provide medical support and care, with her global initiative work sponsored by the Medical Wings program of American Airlines

• Rush University Medical Center

Rush Ambulatory Behavioral Health

2150 W Harrison St

Chicago

IL

60612

USA

+13129425375

• Psychiatry
• Addiction Medicine

• Psychiatric Therapeutic Procedures
• Psychiatric Diagnosis or Evaluation

• Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD)
• Anxiety Dissociative and Somatoform Disorders
• Schizophrenia
• Anxiety Phobic Disorders
• Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
• Bipolar Disorder
• Depressive Disorders