Grayken Fellowship in Addiction Medicine Faculty

Daniel Alford, MD, MPH · General Internal Medicine
Role: Clinical Addiction Research and Education (CARE) Unit Director
Interest(s): opioid use disorders and safe and competent opioid prescribing for chronic pain.

Sarah Bagley, MD, MSc · General Internal Medicine
Role: Medical Director of the CATALYST
Interest(s): Treatment of opioid use disorders in the adolescent and young adult population and the involvement of the family in addiction care

Marielle Baldwin, MD, MPH · Family Medicine
Role: START clinic medical director
Interest(s): Addiction education, stimulant use disorders, health equity

Cecily Barber, MD, MPH · Obstetrics & Gynecology
Role: Instructor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Interest(s): Acute diseases, pregnant persons with substance use disorder education

Joseph Boyle, MD · General Internal Medicine
Role: Medical Director of BMC’s Clinical Stabilization Services
Interest(s): Medical education

Sheila Chapman, MD, MS · General Internal Medicine
Role: Associate Chair, Post-Graduate URM Development
Interest(s): Healthcare Disparities, Sickle Cell Disease, Faculty Development

Ricardo Cruz, MD · General Internal Medicine
Role: Primary Care and Addiction Medicine Physician
Interest(s): Clinical innovations to address health and treatment disparities among people with substance use disorder

Joanna D’Afflitti, MD · Health Care for the Homeless
Role: Medical Director of Respite Programs at Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program
Interest(s): Caring for patient populations that have historically not been served by traditional healthcare models, integrating behavioral health and substance use disorder treatment into primary care, and applying trauma-informed and harm reduction models to the care of people experiencing homelessness.

Michael Dawes, MD · Psychiatry, Addiction Psychiatry
Role: Fellowship Director, Addiction Psychiatry
Interest(s): Fostering development of the next generation of clinician-researchers who treat addiction and co-occurring mental health disorders

Amy Fitzpatrick, MD · General Internal Medicine
Role: Primary Care and Addiction Medicine
Interest(s): Education, Primary Care, Women’s Health, Breast Health

Jason Fox, NP · General Internal Medicine
Role: Addiction Consult Service NP
Interest(s): Caring for hospitalized patients with substance use disorder

Jessie Gaeta, MD, MPH · Health Care for the Homeless
Role: Associate Director, Grayken Addiction Medicine Fellowship
Interest(s): Advocacy for and with people living with substance use disorders & complex conditions

Sandra Looby-Gordon, MD · General Internal Medicine
Role: Primary Care and Addiction Medicine Physician
Interest(s): Medical Education, role of race and ethnicity in the medical encounter, and identifying the critical factors for successful cross-cultural medical encounters

Miriam Harris, MD, MSc · General Internal Medicine
Role: Primary care and office-based addiction treatment in the Women’s Health Unit
Interest(s): Increasing sexual, reproductive, and HIV prevention services in substance use treatment spaces, gender-responsive harm reduction, substance use treatment while pregnant and parenting

Emily Hurstak, MD · General Internal Medicine
Role: Director of OBAT
Interest(s): Integrative Pain Management in a Primary Care

Theresa Kim, MD · General Internal Medicine
Role: physician-researcher, HIV and shelter-based primary care physician
Interest(s): Improving access to quality primary and addiction care for disadvantaged populations

Sarah Kimball, MD · General Internal Medicine
Role: Director of the Immigrant & Refugee Health Center (IRHC) at Boston Medical Center
Interest(s): Primary care, teaching social justice and advocacy skills

Miriam Komaromy, MD · General Internal Medicine
Role: Medical Director of the Grayken Center for Addiction
Interest(s): Health disparities and care for traditionally underserved populations

Colleen Labelle, RN · General Internal Medicine
Role: Program Director, State Technical Assistance Treatment Expansion Office Based Opioid Treatment with Buprenorphine
Interest(s): Training and technical support for office-based addiction treatment

Jordana Laks, MD, MPH · General Internal Medicine
Role: Primary care provider at Boston Healthcare for the Homeless and Associate Medical Director, Faster Paths
Interest(s): Low-barrier addiction treatment, harm reduction, and reproductive justice and sexual health in women who use drugs.

Marc LaRochelle, MD, MPH · General Internal Medicine
Role: Primary Care and Addiction Medicine Physician, Health Services Research
Interest(s): Safety of opioid prescribing and the recognition and treatment of opioid use disorders

Christine Pace, MD · General Internal Medicine
Role: Medical Director of Population Health Services
Interest(s): Design, implementation, and evaluation of programs to improve integration of mental health services and substance use treatment with primary care.

Alyssa Peterkin, MD · General Internal Medicine Addiction Medicine
Role: Fellowship Director, Grayken Addiction Medicine Fellowship
Interest(s): Hospital medicine, low barrier access to SUD treatment, alcohol use disorder, education

John Renner, MD · Psychiatry, Addiction Psychiatry
Role: Associate Program Director, Addiction Psychiatry
Interest(s): Medical education, alcohol use disorder, co-occurring conditions

Emily Rosenthal, MD · Obstetrics Gynecology
Role: Obstetrician and Gynecologist
Interest(s): Maternal fetal health and addiction

Kelley Saia, MD · Obstetrics Gynecology
Role: Director, Project RESPECT
Interest(s): Trauma-informed care for pregnant persons with substance use disorder

Jeffrey Samet, MD, MA, MPH · General Internal Medicine, Addiction Medicine
Role: Primary Care Physician, Researcher
Interest(s): Impact of substance use on HIV infection, health professional substance use education, linkage to SUD treatment in primary care

Jessica Taylor, MD · General Internal Medicine
Role: Faster Paths Medical Director
Interest(s): HIV prevention among people who inject drugs, implementation strategies for HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), low-barrier substance use disorder treatment models, and overdose prevention.

Alyssa Tilhou, MD, PhD · Family Medicine
Role: Primary Care Physician
Interest(s): Health disparities, neighborhood effects, primary care expansion and the impact of the Affordable Care Act on patient access and outcomes

Alexander Walley, MD, MSc · General Internal Medicine
Role: Director of Alumni Affairs, Former Grayken Addiction Medicine Fellowship Director
Interest(s): Harm reduction, overdose prevention, primary care, HIV and addiction treatment

Zoe Weinstein, MD, MSc · General Internal Medicine
Role: Medical Director, Addiction Consult Services, Associate Program Director, Grayken Addiction Medicine Fellowship
Interest(s): Expanding treatment for opioid use disorder among hospitalized patients

Karri Weisenthal, MD · Emergency Medicine
Role: Assistant Professor Emergency Medicine, Associate Medical Director Faster Paths to Treatment
Interest(s): access to medications for OUD in the emergency department (ED) with an equity lens, ensuring smooth transitions of care from the ED to outpatient settings, and integrating a harm reduction approach into the care of patients who use drugs in the ED.

Jason Worcester, MD · General Internal Medicine
Role: Medical Director of Boston Accountable Care Organization, BACO
Interest(s): Resident education, peer counseling, addiction medicine, primary care

Joseph Wright, MD · Health Care for the Homeless
Role: Director of Addiction Treatment
Interest(s): Increasing access to low-barrier addiction treatment and improving retention in care; creating models of care that integrate medical interventions with trauma care, empowerment, mutual aid, and recovery as each person defines it.