Chris (Christian) Small, MD, is board certified in addiction psychiatry, general psychiatry and family medicine.
He founded Headlands Addiction Treatment Services, and previously worked as an addiction psychiatrist at the Veterans Administration in La Jolla and at the University of California San Diego.
He graduated from the University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine and completed a residency in psychiatry and family medicine at UC San Diego.
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