Nauman Ashraf, MD

Psychiatry Residency Program Director and Wellness Subcommittee Chair

Ozark Center

Dr. Nauman Ashraf is the Program Director for KCU-GME Consortium/Ozark Center Psychiatry Residency program in Joplin, Missouri. He serves as an Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at KCU. He has worked at Ozark Center since July 2013, treating patients with mental illness and comorbid substance use disorders.  He also serves as the Medical Director of Addiction Services at Ozark Center and established Ozark Center’s outpatient buprenorphine treatment program in 2017.  He graduated from Liaquat University of Medical & Health Sciences in Pakistan.  He completed his psychiatry residency at New York University School of Medicine as well as a Fellowship in Addiction Psychiatry. He is board certified in General Psychiatry, Addiction Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine. He is the recipient of the Harold I. Kaplan Memorial Award for outstanding contributions in the field of psychiatric teaching and education. He has co-authored book chapters and published peer reviewed articles. He serves as a Prescriber Consultant for the SAMSHA STR-TA Consortium to help fight the opioid epidemic. He has been invited as a speaker to multiple regional, national and international conferences and has given media talks on the Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder.  He has a passion toward improving resident wellness and completed a research project titled the Psychiatry Residency Yoga Training Experiment at Ozark Center. He also served as the PI for KCU- GME Consortium funded project, called 5 Factor Wellness Model, to improve wellness for all residents in the KCU Consortium.

Dr. Ashraf discloses that he has no relevant financial relationships with any organization producing, marketing, reselling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients relative to the content of this presentation.

Dr. Ashraf can be reached at nashraf@freemanhealth.com or 417.347.7603.