Board of Directors

J. Luke Engeriser, MD, FASAM
President

J. Luke Engeriser, MD, FASAM, is Deputy Chief Medical Officer at AltaPointe Health. Engeriser serves as an associate professor, and Director of the Psychiatry Residency Program and Addiction Medicine Fellowship at the University of South Alabama College of Medicine

Dr. Engeriser is a Past President of the Alabama Psychiatric Physicians Association, and he is currently President of the Alabama Society of Addiction Medicine.  He is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and is board certified in Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine.

Dr. Engeriser attended medical school at Northwestern University and completed psychiatry residency training at Tripler Army Medical Center in Honolulu. During his final year of residency, Dr. Engeriser received the Al Glass Award, the military’s highest psychiatry resident research award, for his paper exploring the psychological effects of warfare. Dr. Engeriser served an additional three years in the Army at Fort Benning, Georgia, where he held the position of Chief, Department of Behavioral Health. After separating from the Army, Dr. Engeriser was Medical Director of Mid-Coast Mental Health Center/PenBay Psychiatry in Rockland, Maine. Prior to attending medical school, he completed a Master of Arts in Divinity at the University of Chicago and worked as a teacher of English at the Teacher Training College in Torun, Poland.

Scott Bell, MD
President Elect

Brent Boyett, DO, DMD, DFASAM
Immediate Past President

Brent E. Boyett, DMD, DO, DFASAM, is an addiction medicine specialist in the Neuroscience Department at North Mississippi Medical Center. In addition, he is the founder and former chief medical officer of Pathway Healthcare, which focuses on the outpatient treatment of substance use disorders in 13 locations throughout four states.

He received his doctorate in dental medicine from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and his osteopathic medical degree from the University of Health Sciences in Kansas City Mo. He completed his residency in family medicine through the University of Mississippi and is board certified in family medicine and addiction medicine. 

Dr. Boyett has served as the president of the Alabama Osteopathic Medical Association and the Alabama Society of Addiction Medicine. He currently sits on the national board for the American Society of Addiction Medicine.

His primary focus is on addiction treatment and research. He remains on the cutting edge of technology and training. Giving back to his profession, he is a proctor to medical students, an international speaker and educator in the field of addiction medicine and serves on the board of trustees for the Alabama College of Osteopathic Medicine. 

James A. Harrow, MD, PhD, DABAM, FASAM
Member at Large

Jim Harrow, MD, PhD, DABAM, FASAM serves as the Medical Director of the Baptist Center for Addiction Recovery and the Addiction Medicine Service at Baptist Medical Center South in Montgomery Alabama.

Dr. Harrow attended the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada from 1968 to 1982 obtaining Bachelor of Science, Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy Degrees. He entered Medical School in 1976 at the same institution and concurrently completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship in cardiovascular physiology from 1976 to 1978 and received his Doctor of Medicine degree in 1980. Dr. Harrow completed two years of general surgery at the Health Sciences Center in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Dr. Harrow, his wife, Betty and their daughter, Aynsley moved to Alexander City, Alabama in 1983. He opened a solo internal medicine practice and was affiliated with Russell Medical Center until he closed his office in May 2012. In July 2012, Dr. Harrow attended the University of Florida College of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Division of Addiction Medicine and he completed a Fellowship in Addiction Medicine in June 2013. He became certified by the American Board of Addiction Medicine in November 2014.

When he returned to Alabama he accepted employment with Bradford Health Services in Warrior Alabama as an attending addiction medicine physician. From April 2015 to June 2017 he was the Medical Director of the Alabama Physician Health Program with the Medical Association of the State of Alabama. He then joined the teaching staff of the Montgomery Family Medicine Residency Program in July 2017 to August 2018 when he was offered his current position with Baptist Health to develop an addiction medicine service.

Richard Hayward, MD
Secretary

Richard Hayward, MD, serves as medical director at Bradford Health Services in Madison and Huntsville, Ala., and Nashville and Chattanooga, Tenn. He serves on the board of directors for A Betor Way, a mobile harm reduction service program in Memphis, Tenn., and is an addiction medicine physician at MidSouth Recovery Specialist in Memphis.

He received his medical degree from St. George’s University School of Medicine in Grenada, West Indies. He completed residency training at the University of Tennessee Family Medicine Residency Program in Jackson, and a fellowship in addition medicine at Baptist Memorial in Memphis, Tenn.

He is board certified in addiction medicine and family medicine.

Romell Go, MD, FASAM
Treasurer

Rommel Go, MD, FASAM, is a board-certified physician and has a private practice, Go Medical Group, Boaz, AL. He received his medical degree from University of Santo Tomas and has been in practice 24 years.

Dr. Go also speaks multiple languages, including Tagalog and Chinese (Mandarin). He specializes in addiction medicine and is experienced in addiction medicine, general internal medicine, correctional medicine, business management, and diabetes care.