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Brian Parsells, DO


Brian C. Parsells, D.O. is board certified in General Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine. Dr. Parsells has nearly 30 years of clinical experience in community psychiatry. For the past 14 years, Dr. Parsells has been a staff psychiatrist with Pathways Community Behavioral Health/Compass Health Network. Since 2016 he has served as the Associate Physician Director of Substance Abuse Services and Medication Assisted Treatment Psychiatry Chief for the Western Region of Missouri. Dr. Parsells has been providing Medication Assisted Treatment services since 2010. He has devoted most of his clinical time to the Medication Assisted Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder since 2013. Currently, he practices at the Compass Health FQHC in Clinton, Missouri funded by an HRSA grant to provide psychiatry and addiction services within a primary care practice setting. He medically supervises two residential CSTAR treatment programs within the Compass Health Network. Dr. Parsells is also an Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry for the University of Missouri, Columbia involved with the training of PGY-IV psychiatry residents in the treatment of addictions.  

Dr. Parsells discloses that he has no relevant financial relationships with any organization producing, marketing, reselling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients relative to the content of this presentation.