Thomas L. Haynes, MD, FASAM

Thomas L. Haynes, MD, FASAM, is a 1974 graduate of the University of Michigan Medical School, and practiced as an emergency physician during his early medical career. He has been in full-time practice in the treatment of addiction since mid-1985, and was involved in the field on a part-time basis for over five years prior to that. Dr. Haynes has been the Medical Director of addiction treatment centers from 1985 to the present. He was a member of the Michigan State Medical Society's Steering Committee to Assist the Impaired Physician until that committee was disbanded in 1998, and served as the Interim Medical Director of the Medical Society's Physicians Recovery Network from July, 1991, through October, 1992. He has established the first support group in West Michigan available to all recovering health professionals. Dr. Haynes served from 1994 to 1999 as the Chairman of the Health Professional Recovery Committee of the State of Michigan Department of Consumer and Industry Services - Bureau of Health Services, and was the founding president of the Michigan Society of Addiction Medicine.

Dr. Haynes is one of the first physicians to be certified in the field of addiction medicine by the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM), passing the first national certifying examination in 1986, and then re-certifying in 1994 and 2002. He has been elected as ASAM’s Region VI Director and serves on ASAM's Board of Directors. He has been granted the status of Fellow of ASAM. On May 1, 2005 Dr. Haynes was seated as the first delegate for Addiction Medicine in the MSMS House of Delegates.

Dr. Haynes also is the founder and president of West Michigan Addiction Consultants, PC (WeMAC). In 1989, he established the Professional Recovery System, which is a phased, specialized approach to the treatment of addicted health professionals and others, and he now devotes his professional efforts to the delivery of addiction medicine services to the patients in this program.