Gregory L. Kirk, M.D.
Aviation Psychiatry and Dr. Kirk
I keep a nationwide practice and my pilots fly for every legacy carrier. I also work with general aviation pilots, student pilots, and Air Traffic Control applicants. Away from aviation, I am a referral clinician for the NBA, a treating clinician in the NFL Program for Substances of Abuse, a 5280 Magazine “Top Doc” in Addiction Psychiatry, and an expert in suicide and unintentional death from substance abuse, mental illness, and behavioral disorders.
I started seeing pilots at Rocky Mountain Psychiatry Consultants in 2012 and founded the specialty aviation clinic, Aviation Psychiatry, LLC, in 2017. Aviation Psychiatry expanded to Las Vegas in 2020. Referrals come from everywhere, such as Part 121 HIMS managers, corporate medical departments and pilot advocates, the nation’s leading HIMS AMEs and Neuropsychologists, all United States pilot unions, flight schools, attorneys, and the web.
Experience
2017–Present
- Aviation Psychiatry, LLC
- Denver, Colorado and Las Vegas, Nevada
- Aviation Assessment, Treatment, and Monitoring of Pilots
2010–Present
- Rocky Mountain Psychiatry Consultants, LLC
- Denver, Colorado
- General and Addiction Psychiatry
2011
- CeDAR, University of Colorado
- Aurora, Colorado
- Senior Instructor
2003–2010
- Kaiser-Permanente, Colorado
- Denver, Colorado
- Chief of Hospital Psychiatry
2000–2003
- CMHI-Fort Logan
- Denver, Colorado
- Senior Instructor/Psychiatrist
Education
1999–2000
- Fellowship, Addiction Psychiatry
- University of Colorado
- Denver, Colorado
1995–1999
- Residency, Psychiatry
- University of Colorado
- Denver, Colorado
1991–1995
- Doctor of Medicine
- University of Tennessee
- Memphis, Tennessee
1987–1991
- BS, Mathematics
- Vanderbilt University
- Nashville, Tennessee
Lecture Series
- Depression and Anxiety in Pilots, ALPA Air Safety Forum, Peer Pilot Breakout Conference
- Emergency Issues in Drug Intoxication, University of Colorado Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship
- Emergency Management of Stimulant Disorders, University of Colorado Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship
- Emergency Management of Methamphetamine for First Responders, State of Colorado Alcohol and Drug Abuse Division, Annual Conference
- Treatment of Stimulant Disorders, University of Colorado Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship
- CNS Depressants and Sedatives in High-Risk Groups, University of Colorado Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship
- Alcohol and Opioid Detoxification Using the CIWA-Ar and COWS, State of Colorado Alcohol and Drug Abuse Division, Annual Conference
- Pharmacotherapy of Alcoholism, University of Colorado Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship
- Urine Drug Screening in Community Corrections
- Geriatric Substance Abuse, Colorado State University Center for Healthy Aging
- Addiction or Compulsion? Using Epidemiology and Public Health Initiatives to Define and Treat Disease
- Hallucinogens and PCP, University of Colorado Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship
- MDMA, GHB, Ketamine, and Novel Drugs of Abuse, University of Colorado Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship
- Substance Patterns Seen in Disaster Areas, Denver University Graduate School of Professional Psychology
- Methadone Maintenance, Jefferson County Department of Probation
- Behavioral Change and Why We Resist, Colorado Bar Association
- In Defense of Sadness and Pain, and the Threat of Prescription Drug Overload, Teller and El Paso County Alliance for Drug Endangered Children
- Hospital Management of Malingering, Lutheran Medical Center
Skills
- HIMS Psychiatrist
- National Basketball Association Referral Clinician
- National Football League Program for Substances of Abuse Treating Clinician
- Outpatient Management of Complex Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders
- Hospital Psychiatry
- Emergency Management of Substance Use Disorders
- Expert Witness for Injuries and Fatalities Related to Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders
Professional Societies
- American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry
- American Psychiatric Association
- Aerospace Medical Association
- Colorado Psychiatric Society
Regulatory
Licenses
- Colorado #36227
- Nevada #19673
- Arizona #60788
- Utah # 9090864-1205
Certifications
- ABPN, Psychiatry #50341
- ABPN, Addiction Psychiatry #1836