Angela Burdick-McPhee

Dr. Burdick-McPhee’s PhD was officially conferred on May 12th.  Doctor McPhee walked at her graduation at the University of Holy Cross in New Orleans on May 18th.

Dr. Burdick-McPhee has been a practicing clinician for 17 years.  is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Louisiana, and Oregon. She is also a Licensed Clinical Alcohol and Drug Counselor (LCADC) in New Jersey, Certified Advanced Alcohol and Drug Counselor (CAADC) in Pennsylvania, and Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor Level 3 in Oregon. She is an Approved Clinical Supervisor (ACS) through the National Board of Certified Counselors (NBCC). She also recently obtained her National Board Certification in Tele-Mental Counseling (BC-TMC) through the Center for Counseling and Education.

Dr. Burdick-McPhee has served as the Director of Behavioral Health Programs in the Department of Psychiatry at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center since 2020. She began her career at Penn as the Clinical Manager of Behavioral Health Programs at Presbyterian Hospital in 2018 where she implemented Evidence-Based Programming (EVB) of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) in collaboration with the Penn Beck Collaborative across all behavioral health programs including the inpatient psychiatric unit (formerly known as “Wright 5”), inpatient substance use detoxification and residential substance use treatment unit (formerly “Wright 4”) and the outpatient substance use treatment programs.

To revitalize and bring focus to the renewed focus on the quality of the evidence-based services that Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry, outpatient substance use services is now providing, Dr. Burdick-McPhee rebranded the outpatient programs as “Total Recovery” at Penn Medicine in 2020.  

Dr. Burdick-McPhee not only serves ats the Director of Programs, but also the Clinical Director and Clinical Supervisor and the behavioral health treatment programs under her direction have been rated as within the top 10 Addiction Treatment Programs in Pennsylvania by Newsweek annually, while she has been in her role most recently, in 2024 Total Recovery at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center was rated #2 in the state for top treatment programs.

Total Recovery has also been rated as one of the top providers for Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) by the City of Philadelphia. As part of this work, Dr. Burdick-McPhee, in partnership with Penn’s Liver Transplant Team and members of the Department of Psychiatry designed, developed, and implemented the first Alcohol-Induced Liver Transplant substance use programs, which have continued for 3 years and has demonstrated success in reducing recidivism of relapse rates among LVD transplant post-transplant. She has also partnered with other professionals across the system, including the Department of Infectious Diseases, on research to improve rates of education, testing, and treatment for substance-related infectious diseases

Dr. Burdick-McPhee’s expertise in program development, counselor supervision, and education, as well as the delivery of care, has been sought by the city of Philadelphia and the state Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs for numerous stakeholder boards and workgroups. She serves as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in addiction treatment, focusing on best practices and regulatory matters across the system in developing clinical treatment, state and federal policies, and procedures.

Dr. Burdick-McPhee is the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) Implementation Leader for the City of Philadelphia initiative to ensure all programs are utilizing best practices and clinical staff are trained and certified in ASAM evidence-based assessment in addiction treatment.

In addition to the Implemented Evidence-Based Programming (EVB) of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dr. Burdick-McPhee received grant funding for training and implementation of a second EVB Ecosystemic Structural Family Therapy (ESFT), which is nearing its 3-year completion and lays the ground for expansion of services and programs to include family therapy programs for the impact of substance use on the family system.

Dr. Burdick-McPhee transitioned the 5-year grant-funded Center of Excellence (COE) CORE (Center for Opioid Recovery and Engagement) program into a standardized revenue-producing program that is now embedded across the health system assisting medical providers of addiction medicine servicing individuals with substance use disorders with the support of Certified Recovery Specialists (CRS) and Care Coordinators addressing barriers to care and socioeconomic factors leading to continued overdose and relapse to use of substances.

Dr. Burdick-McPhee has obtained the STAR (Substance Use Disorder Treatment and Recovery) program designation through the United States Department of Health and Human Services Administration National Health Service Corps for the Total Recovery programs, which provide loan forgiveness (up to $100,000 per professional) for service within the Total Recovery program.

In addition to continuing her work as the Director of Behavioral Health Programs at Penn, Dr. Burdick-McPhee recently accepted a full-time assistant Professorship at Bushnell University in Eugene, Oregon, where she will work as an Assistant Professor in the CACREP-accredited Clinical Mental Health Counseling Master’s program.

Dr. Burdick-McPhee is excited to continue her work within her role at Penn, partnering with professionals across the system to improve care for our patients, adding to the body of research surrounding improving treatment for individuals experiencing substance use disorders, training, educating and supervising the clinicians that will continue to provide care for the next generations.