Alen J. Salerian

Who is Alen J. Salerian?

Alen Johannes Salerian, M.D., is a Turkey-born Armenian psychiatrist who lives in Bethesda, Maryland, and worked in Washington D.C. Between 2001 and 2010, Salerian operated the Washington Center for Psychiatry in Washington, D.C. In 2010, Salerian renamed his practice The Salerian Center for Neuroscience and Pain.

On July 1, 2013, the District of Columbia Board of Medicine revoked Salerian's medical license, according to a press release put out by Salerian.

On April 25, 2013, Salerian was indicted by the United States Department of Justice on drug trafficking charges. The indictment alleges that between 2007 and April 5, 2012, Salerian distributed and dispensed, and caused the distribution and dispensing, of the prescription pain medications OxyContin, oxycodone, methadone, Opana ER, and fentanyl to his psychiatric patients without a legitimate medical purpose and beyond the bounds of medical practice. In April 2014, a Virginia judge declared Salerian "mentally incompetent" to stand trial. Salerian is free on bond.