Sidney H. Schnoll, M.D., Ph.D.

Sidney H. Schnoll, M.D., Ph.D., is an internationally recognized expert in addiction and pain management.  Sid was a member of the team that developed the Tramadol Independent Steering Committee (ISC), and he was the principal investigator on the health care professional surveillance project to determine rates of abuse of tramadol among health professionals.  Sid also developed the RADARS® System to study the abuse and diversion of prescription opioids, which was cited by the FDA as a model risk management program.  

Sid has served on numerous committees and boards including the FDA’s Drug Abuse Advisory Committee (DAAC), NIH study sections, National Board of Medical Examiners test development committees, and was a board member of the College on Problems of Drug Dependence (CPDD).  He has received numerous awards including listings in The Best Doctors in America and is a Fellow of CPDD and the American Society of Addiction Medicine.    

With over thirty years in academic medicine, Sid has published over 150 research papers, book chapters and educational materials.  His areas of research include both addiction and pain management with special emphasis on perinatal addiction and prescription drug abuse. 

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