Dr. Elena Volfson is double Board-certified in General and Addiction Psychiatry. She is currently a part time psychiatric consultant at the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, AZ. She is also an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Mayo Alix School of Medicine. She teaches and supervises medical students, residents and fellows of different specialties.
Dr. Volfson works in Scottsdale Mental Health and Wellness Institute in Scottsdale, AZ and serves as a medical director at the Pathfinders Rehabilitation Center in Scottsdale, AZ. Dr. Volfson is an approved assessor for the AZ Medical Board and AZ Board of Pharmacy, where she performs professional assessments for physicians, physician assistants and pharmacists. Dr. Volfson volunteers her time serving as a treasurer of the Arizona Psychiatric Society.
Dr. Volfson was recognized as a Top Doctor in Phoenix Magazine
in 2017, 2018 and 2019.
Dr. Volfson graduated from St. Petersburg Pavlov Medical University in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1996. She completed residency in Internal Medicine in 1998. Then she was awarded highly competitive and prestigious US Congress Scholarship and completed Master’s in Public Health majoring in Epidemiology at the SUNY at Albany School of Public Health in 2000.
She completed residency in Psychiatry and fellowship in Addiction Psychiatry at the UMDNJ Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Program in New Brunswick, NJ in 2007. She worked as a Medical Director of the Integrated Care program at the Philadelphia Veteran Affairs Medical Center from 2007-2015. The program was recognized nationally and received multiple awards for improving access to mental health services for the veteran’s population. In that role Dr. Volfson served as a consultant psychiatrist for the primary care providers covering 58,000 veterans. She also was supervising care managers at the Wilkes Barre VA, Lebanon VA and Wilmington VA hospitals. Dr. Volfson lectured nationally on the management of mental heath disorders in integrated care system, on substance use disorders, on women’s health. Dr. Volfson co-authored a chapter on neurobiology of substance use disorders in the APA Textbook on Geriatric Neuropsychiatry published in 2011.
Dr. Volfson was an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania from 2009-2015. She directed the Addiction Psychiatry Course for PFY-2 residents and the outpatient addiction rotation for PGY-3 residents and fellows.
Dr. Volfson was active in Pennsylvania Psychiatric Society, chairing the Women’s Psychiatry Group and was a recipient of the Greenspan Award for her outstanding contribution to the society.
Dr. Volfson is a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.