Daryl I. Shorter, M.D.
Baylor College of Medicine
VA Houston Healthcare System

Alumni 2015 - 2017
Biography
Dr. Daryl Shorter is a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and is Board Certified in both General and Addiction Psychiatry. A graduate of Rice University (1998) and Baylor College of Medicine (2002), Dr. Shorter completed General Psychiatry residency at the Ohio State University Medical Center and Addiction Psychiatry fellowship training at New York University/Bellevue Hospital. Currently an Assistant Professor in the Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Baylor College of Medicine, Dr. Shorter serves as Director of the Addiction Psychiatry fellowship program and is in clinical practice at the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center (MEDVAMC). Since 2011, Dr. Shorter has served as the Medical Director of the Outpatient Clinical Trials Research program at MEDVAMC, focusing on outpatient clinical trials of novel medications for treatment of cocaine dependence and opiate dependence as well as pharmacogenetics. In addition to his research and educational work, Dr. Shorter serves as acting medical director for the Behavioral Health Program at MEDVAMC, providing Addictions treatment in primary care settings and with veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.