{"id":51800,"date":"2017-10-26T13:56:50","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T17:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm\/?page_id=51800"},"modified":"2024-10-15T10:10:40","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T14:10:40","slug":"richard-saitz","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/offices-services\/alumni\/spotlight\/richard-saitz\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Saitz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\" mce-data-marked=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/camed\/files\/2017\/09\/Saitz-Richard-87-464x636.jpg\" alt=\"Saitz, Richard- 87\" width=\"215\" height=\"295\" class=\"wp-image-50677 alignright\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2017\/09\/Saitz-Richard-87-464x636.jpg 464w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2017\/09\/Saitz-Richard-87-768x1054.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2017\/09\/Saitz-Richard-87-746x1024.jpg 746w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 215px) 100vw, 215px\" \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Class year:<\/strong><span>\u00a0<\/span>1987<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Specialties:<\/strong><span>\u00a0<\/span>Addiction Medicine, General Internal Medicine\/Primary Care<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Current practice:<\/strong><span>\u00a0<\/span>Boston Medical Center<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Fond memory of BUSM:<\/strong><span>\u00a0<\/span>The classmates I worked with at VA medicine<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Favorite professor or course at BUSM:<\/strong><span>\u00a0<\/span>William McNary certainly made an impression; Joel Caslowitz and Graeme Finke from the clinical years at the VA in medicine<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Most recent accomplishment<\/strong>: appointment as Associate Editor, JAMA<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Hobbies outside of work:<\/strong><span>\u00a0<\/span>Tweeting, travelling, two kids in high school\u2026<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Academic appointments<\/strong>: Chair and Professor of Community Health Sciences, BU School of Public Health; Professor of Medicine, BU Chobanian &#038; Avedisian School of Medicine<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><strong>Recent publication:<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kim TW, Bernstein J, Cheng DM, Lloyd-Travaglini C, Samet JH, Palfai TP, Saitz R. Receipt of Addiction Treatment as a Consequence of a Brief Intervention for Drug Use in Primary Care: A Randomized Trial. Addiction. 2016 Nov 25. PMID: 27886657<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Class year:\u00a01987 Specialties:\u00a0Addiction Medicine, General Internal Medicine\/Primary Care Current practice:\u00a0Boston Medical Center Fond memory of BUSM:\u00a0The classmates I worked with at VA medicine Favorite professor or course at BUSM:\u00a0William McNary certainly made an impression; Joel Caslowitz and Graeme Finke from the clinical years at the VA in medicine Most recent accomplishment: appointment as Associate Editor, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7356,"featured_media":0,"parent":93581,"menu_order":11,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"bu-publication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51800"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7356"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51800"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107819,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51800\/revisions\/107819"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/93581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"bu-publication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-publication?post=51800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}