Dr. Adrian Kress

Psychiatrist

Dr. Adrian Kress believes in creating a supportive and collaborative relationship. Moreover, he prioritizes his clients’ ability to make well-informed, evidence-based decisions about their mental health care. Dr. Kress offers evening hours to support our clients’ busy schedules. He treats patients seeking evaluations for and management of psychiatric medications, as well as seeing a select few for combined therapy with integrated medication management when indicated.

In the coming months, Dr. Kress will retire from the Army after twenty years of service. He received his medical degree from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. While he completed his psychiatry residency training with the National Capital Consortium, Walter Reed Army Medical Center. He completed fellowship training and achieved board-certified in Forensic Psychiatry. Additionally, he holds board certification in Clinical Pharmacology through the American Board of Clinical Pharmacology. As a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Dr. Kress’ has extensive clinical experience providing psychiatric care for patients with various psychiatric illnesses across multiple treatment settings. As such, his training prepared him to offer exceptional care to the members of our community.

Military Mental Health Achievements

Furthermore, his accomplishments include co-developing and directing a comprehensive inpatient dual-diagnosis treatment program for combat trauma and addiction and being named the subject matter expert in forensic psychiatry for the Army’s inspection of its disability evaluation system. He served as an attending psychiatrist at Moncrief Army Community Hospital at Ft. Jackson, SC. He deployed to northern Iraq to provide psychiatric care to service members supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Dr. Kress received one Meritorious Service Medal and two Army Commendation Medals for service above and beyond his assigned duties during his military career.

Within clinical pharmacology, Dr. Kress has served as the Director of the Army Pharmacovigilance Center at the Office of the Army Surgeon General. Moreover, he has also published numerous peer-reviewed papers and has been invited to speak nationally and internationally in the field of pharmacology. 

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