Kara Dillon MD

Biography

Kara Dillon, MD is a board-certified primary care physician and addiction medicine specialist at Boston Medical Center and an assistant professor at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine. In addition to primary care, she sees patients in the Office Based Addiction Treatment (OBAT) Program, Faster Paths to Treatment program, and attends on the inpatient addiction consult service. She directs the Addiction and Health Track of the LEADS health equity course for first- and second-year medical students at BU. She is passionate about medical education, incorporating harm reduction into general medical settings, and the intersection of primary care and addiction medicine.

Dr. Dillon received her BS from Boston University and medical degree from Tufts University School of Medicine. She completed internal medicine-primary care residency and ambulatory chief residency at New York Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical Center, followed by addiction medicine fellowship at BMC.