Dr. C. Fred Lord, MD

Dr. Clifton Lord (Fred) is Medical Director of Connecticut Valley Recovery Services in Windsor VT and the Acadia Health Comprehensive Treatment Center/ Opioid Treatment Program in West Lebanon, NH,  providing evaluation and treatment of substance use and related disorders including FDA approved medications for opioid use and alcohol use disorder. CVAR also provides treatment for Hepatitis C, individual and group counseling and case management.

 A 1978 graduate of the University of Vermont (now Larner) College of Medicine, he trained in General Surgery at Bridgeport Hospital (Yale University Affiliated Surgery Program), Orthopedic Surgery at the Brown University Combined Orthopedic Residency program (Rhode Island Hospital and Providence RI Veteran Affairs Medical Center) where he was a Haffenreffer Fellow in Surgical Sciences, and Orthopedic Oncology at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. After a 15-year career, he retired from active surgery and, after a brief hiatus in administration, completed the Addiction Medicine Fellowship at the University of Florida. He returned to Windsor in 2007 and established CT Valley Recovery Services, the precursor to the present practice.

Dr. Lord has been principal investigator and network/project director for several Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and Healthcare and Rural Services Administration (HRSA) grants dealing with health information technology and network development in rural healthcare settings. He was the project director for a HRSA Rural Opioid Response (RCORP) grant (20GA1RH39550), to improve prevention and treatment of opioid use disorder in Windsor County, VT from 2020 to 2023. He serves as a preceptor for Addiction Psychiatry Fellows at the Geisel School of Medicine, where he is Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry. He is also a preceptor and Adjunct Faculty for the Master of Physician Assistant Studies program at Franklin Pierce University.

Dr. Lord is a member and Fellow of the American Society of Addiction Medicine and a member of the American College of Academic Addiction Medicine. He is currently President of the Northern New England Society of Addiction Medicine