Mark R. Publicker, MD
Dr. Mark Publicker, former Regional Chief of Addiction Medicine for Kaiser Permanente Mid-Atlantic Region (covering the Washington-Baltimore metropolitan region) joined the Recovery Center team on November 17, 2003. Dr. Publicker has directed a multi-disciplinary health center with 80 physicians, 800 staff and more than 40,000 patients. He brings to his position a wealth of experience in motivational interviewing, chronic pain management, and addiction medicine.
Dr. James Berry

Dr. Arlene Kellman
Dr. Kellman studied zoology at the University of Maryland and graduated from San Francisco State University, cum laude, with a BA in Biology. In 1983, she received her D.O. degree from the University of Osteopathic Medicine and Health Sciences in Des Moines, IA. She later completed an internal medicine residency at Metropolitan Hospital in Grand Rapids, MI, where she also worked part-time at a drug and alcohol treatment center. After residency, she practiced primary care internal medicine at a community health center in Greeley, CO. From 1994 to 1999, she was medical director of Addiction Research and Treatment Services at the University of Colorado in Denver, CO, and from 1999 to 2010, she worked as an addictionologist at Cottonwood de Tucson in Tucson, AZ. While in Tucson, she also had a part-time practice in homeopathy and addiction medicine, and was volunteer medical director of Spirit of Service, Inc., a nonprofit organization providing integrative medicine services to the underserved. Dr. Kellman moved to Maine in 2010. She is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Addiction Medicine and has had post-graduate training in homeopathy, herbal medicine, yoga therapy, and Jin Shin Jyutsu.
Dr. Edward A. McCarthy, Jr.
Born in Medford, Massachusetts, Dr. McCarthy graduated from the Tufts University School of Medicine in 1971, and completed his residency in Psychiatry at Maine Medical Center in 1974. After serving as Assistant Professor of Psychiatry first for Tufts University School of Medicine and then for the University of Vermont School of Medicine, he was appointed Medical Director of New England Rehabilitation Hospital of Maine’s Pain Rehabilitation Program in 1987. Dr. McCarthy became Director of Maine Medical Center’s Division of Acute Psychiatry in 1989, and has been an attending physician for Maine Medical Center’s Department of Emergency Medicine since 1990. From 1999 to the present he has been Chief of the Division of Behavioral Health for Mercy Hospital. Dr. McCarthy is a member of the American Psychiatric Association, the Maine Psychiatric Association, the Cumberland County Medical Society (serving as President from 1995-1997), the Maine Medical Association and the American Psychosomatic Society; he has been published in numerous Medical journals and has made dozens of presentations as an expert in his field from 1983 to the present.

Dr. Patrice Lockhart
Dr. Patrice Lockhart has been the Medical Director of the New England Eating Disorders Program at Mercy Hospital since 2005, providing leadership in the treatment of eating disorders to patients, their families, and medical providers throughout New England. Dr. Lockhart also provides inpatient hospital consultation in general psychiatry, and acute psychiatric assessment and treatment for adolescents and adults in the Mercy Hospital Emergency Department.



