Jessica L. Taylor MD
Assistant Professor, General Internal Medicine
801 Massachusetts Ave | (617) 414-7399jtaylor3@bu.edu
Sections
General Internal Medicine
Centers
Clinical Addiction Research and Education Unit
Biography
Jessica L. Taylor, MD is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in General Internal Medicine at the Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center and a board-certified Addiction Specialist. She attended Mount Sinai School of Medicine and completed internal medicine residency training at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, where she also served as a Chief Resident. Dr. Taylor’s clinical work focuses on the care of patients with substance use disorders, HIV, and viral hepatitis.
Her research interests include HIV prevention among people who inject drugs, HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) implementation, low-barrier substance use disorder treatment models, and overdose prevention. She is Co-Director of the Care Continuum Core for the Massachusetts site of the NIDA-funded Healing Communities Study, which aims to reduce fatal opioid overdose by 40%.
Dr. Taylor is the Medical Director of Faster Paths to Treatment, Boston Medical Center’s innovative, low-barrier substance use disorder bridge clinic and the Medical Director of the Transitional Care Clinic, a bridge clinic co-located with a low-threshold, transitional housing program for people experiencing homelessness. She directs HIV Prevention Programs at BMC. Her educational roles include directing the HIV Pathway for internal medicine residents and serving as core faculty in BUSM’s Addiction Medicine fellowship program.
Education
Medicine-Internal, MD, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Psychology, BS, Duke University
Publications
Chatterjee A, Chase RP, Chahine RA, Davis J, Dsouza N, Ellison S, Bagley SM, Fisher T, Glasgow L, Harris MTH, Huang TT, Holloway J, Lounsbury DW, Oga E, Asman K, Roberts SM, Sabounchi N, Surratt HL, Lines LM, Stadler HW, Taylor JL, Davis A. Local level of social inequity moderates implementation of evidence-based practices tailored to minoritized populations to reduce opioid overdose deaths. J Subst Use Addict Treat. 2025 Oct 30; 180:209828. PMID: 41175975.
Published on 7/9/2025Brown JL, Larochelle MR, Fanucchi LC, Calvert DC, Campbell ANC, Chandler RK, Feaster DJ, Glasgow LM, Gibson EB, Holloway J, Lofwall MR, Mack A, Mack N, Nunes EV, Talbert JC, Tan S, Vandergrift N, Villani J, Asman K, Babakhanlou-Chase H, Bagley SM, Battaglia TA, Blevins D, Bridden C, Cheng DM, Christopher M, Cogan LW, Cunningham CO, Eggleston B, Fareed N, Fernandez S, Freedman DA, Freiermuth CE, Freisthler B, Gilbert L, Hammerslag L, Harris D, Hunt T, Hussain S, Huynh P, Jackson RD, Kauffman EB, Knott C, Knudsen HK, Lefebvre RC, Levin FR, Massatti R, McAlearney AS, Morgan JR, Lopez RM, Lounsbury DW, Newman L, Nickels K, Oga EA, Oller DA, Parran TV, Quinn M, Ramsey KS, Rapkin BD, Salsberry P, Stein M, Taylor JL, Teater J, Walters ST, Zarkin GA, El-Bassel N, Winhusen TJ, Samet JH, Walsh SL. Effects of the Communities That HEAL intervention on initiation, retention, and linkage to medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD): A cluster randomized wait-list controlled trial. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2025 Sep 01; 274:112785. PMID: 40684522.
Published on 2/25/2025Palfai TP, Kratzer MPL, Taylor JL, Otis JD, Winter MR. Addressing Pain and Heavy Drinking among Patients in HIV-Care: A Pilot Study of an Integrated Telehealth Intervention. AIDS Behav. 2025 Jun; 29(6):1930-1943. PMID: 39998790.
Published on 12/1/2024Libman H, Krakower D, Taylor JL, Burns RB. How Would You Manage HIV Pre-exposure Prophylaxis in This Patient With Medical Comorbidities? Ann Intern Med. 2024 Dec; 177(12):1743. PMID: 39680948.
Published on 12/1/2024Li C, Burke MM, Taylor JL, DaWalt LS, Rossetti Z. Establishing an Advocacy Activities Scale for Parents of Individuals With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. Intellect Dev Disabil. 2024 Dec 01; 62(6):486-499. PMID: 39581212.
Published on 11/27/2024De La Hoz A, Pooja A, Kancharla A, Schechter-Perkins EM, Ruiz-Mercado G, Baldwin M, Nunes D, Taylor JL. Characteristics and Outcomes of Direct-Acting Antiviral Experienced Patients with Hepatitis C Undergoing Retreatment at an Essential Hospital in the United States. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2024 Dec; 11(12):ofae704. PMID: 39703790.
Published on 11/4/2024Rozansky H, Christine PJ, Younkin M, Fox JM, Weinstein ZM, Suarez S, Stewart J, Farrell N, Taylor JL. Addiction consult service involvement in PrEP and PEP delivery for patients who inject drugs admitted to an urban essential hospital. Addict Sci Clin Pract. 2024 Nov 04; 19(1):77. PMID: 39497126.
Published on 10/14/2024De La Hoz A, Gadi N, Lopez CG, Barrera-Godinez A, Miller NS, Bourque DL, Brem C, Ozluk E, Seth G, Kimball S, Taylor JL. Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome in a Patient With Cutaneous Leishmaniasis and HIV: A Diagnostic Challenge for Clinicians Caring for a Migrant Population in the United States. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2024 Oct; 11(10):ofae587. PMID: 39474451.
Published on 10/1/2024Freisthler B, Chahine RA, Villani J, Chandler R, Feaster DJ, Slavova S, Defiore-Hyrmer J, Walley AY, Kosakowski S, Aldridge A, Barbosa C, Bhatta S, Brancato C, Bridden C, Christopher M, Clarke T, David J, D'Costa L, Ewing I, Fernandez S, Gibson E, Gilbert L, Hall ME, Hargrove S, Hunt T, Kinnard EN, Larochelle L, Macoubray A, Nigam S, Nunes EV, Oser CB, Pagnano S, Rock P, Salsberry P, Shadwick A, Stopka TJ, Tan S, Taylor JL, Westgate PM, Wu E, Zarkin GA, Walsh SL, El-Bassel N, Winhusen TJ, Samet JH, Oga EA. Communities That HEAL Intervention and Mortality Including Polysubstance Overdose Deaths: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Netw Open. 2024 Oct 01; 7(10):e2440006. PMID: 39432308.
Published on 7/30/2024Braun HM, Taylor JL, Axelrath S. Buprenorphine/naloxone - one formulation that doesn't fit all: a case report. Harm Reduct J. 2024 Jul 30; 21(1):143. PMID: 39080714.
Media Mentions
Published on 11/9/2023
Let doctors prescribe methadone
Published on 4/12/2023
‘Tranq,’ used in a deadly drug combo, threatens Massachusetts users
Published on 3/21/2023
Methadone doses haven’t kept up in the age of fentanyl. A new rule aims to help
Published on 2/23/2023
Boston warns of increase in overdoses due to cocaine contaminated with fentanyl
Published on 2/15/2023
Animal tranquilizer increasingly showing up in New England street drugs
Published on 12/14/2022
'We’re not out of the woods’: Opioid-related deaths declined this year, but just slightly
Published on 5/12/2022
Drug overdose deaths have increased 15% to nearly 108,000
Published on 2/23/2022
BMC Bridge Clinic Charts a Needed Path to Methadone for Opioid Withdrawal
Published on 5/12/2021
Report: 2020 record year for fatal Mass. opioid overdoses
Published on 5/11/2021
Drug Use by State: 2021’s Problem Areas
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