James Sherer

Background

About James Sherer

James Sherer M.D. is an addiction psychiatrist, educator, author, and patient advocate. He is board certified in psychiatry, completed medical school and psychiatric residency training at Rutgers - New Jersey Medical School, and completed an addiction psychiatry fellowship at New York University Grossman School of Medicine. He is currently the Director of the Addiction Medicine Consult Service and Associate Program Director of the Addiction Medicine Fellowship Program at Hackensack Meridian - Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune, NJ. He is also an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine. He is working to expand care to substance use disorder treatment and educate the public on effective treatment for substance use disorders. He is also the author of multiple published academic papers and the co-editor and co-author of "Technological Addictions," the first textbook published by the American Psychiatric Association to comprehensively cover subjects such as social media and video game addiction.