Zoe M. Weinstein MD, MS
Associate Professor, General Internal Medicine
801 Massachusetts Ave | (617) 414-7399zoe.weinstein@bmc.org
zoweins1@bu.edu
Sections
General Internal Medicine
Centers
Clinical Addiction Research and Education Unit
Biography
Zoe M. Weinstein, MD, MS, is a graduate of Boston University’s Addiction Medicine Fellowship and board certified in Internal Medicine and Addiction Medicine. She has been the Director of Boston Medical Center’s interdisciplinary addiction consult service since July 2016. She has been NIDA grant funded as a co-investigator on multiple studies to deliver training and technical assistance to interdisciplinary provider teams (physicians, nurse practitioners, social workers, addiction counselors and recovery coaches) to expand treatment for opioid use disorder among hospitalized patients in New York City public hospitals as well as hospitals in Massachusetts as part of the HEALing Communities Study. She is currently site-PI of two NIDA Clinical Trial Network studies focused on inpatient addiction care. Her clinical and research work are also focused on long-term Office-Based Addiction Treatment (OBAT) with buprenorphine. She currently serves as Associate Director of Boston University’s Addiction Medicine Fellowship Program, a board member of AMERSA and is a site medical director of a local methadone clinic.
Education
Medicine-Internal, MD, University of California San Francisco
MS, Boston University School of Public Health
Psychology, BA, Columbia University
Publications
Davoust M, Bazzi AR, Blakemore S, Blodgett J, Cheng A, Fielman S, Magane KM, Theisen J, Saitz R, Ventura AS, Weinstein ZM. Patient and clinician experiences with the implementation of telemedicine and related adaptations in office-based buprenorphine treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative study. Addict Sci Clin Pract. 2025 Mar 04; 20(1):21. PMID: 40033433.
Published on 12/2/2024Bart G, Barth KS, Baukol P, Enns E, Ghitza UE, Harris J, Jelstrom E, Liebschutz JM, Magane KM, Voronca D, Weinstein ZM, Korthuis PT. Exemplar Hospital Initiation Trial to Enhance Treatment Engagement (EXHIT ENTRE): protocol for CTN-0098 an open-label randomized comparative effectiveness trial of extended-release buprenorphine versus treatment as usual on post-hospital treatment engagement for hospitalized patients with opioid use disorder. Addict Sci Clin Pract. 2024 Dec 02; 19(1):91. PMID: 39623502.
Published on 11/25/2024Shearer R, Englander H, Hagedorn H, Fawole A, Laes J, Titus H, Patten A, Oot E, Appleton N, Fitzpatrick A, Kibben R, Fernando J, McNeely J, Gustafson D, Krawczyk N, Weinstein Z, Baukol P, Ghitza U, Siegler T, Bart G, Bazzi A. Hospital Provider's Perspectives on MOUD Initiation and Continuation After Inpatient Discharge. J Gen Intern Med. 2024 Nov 25. PMID: 39586949.
Published on 11/10/2024Weinstein ZM, Yu O, Wartko PD, Samet JH, Bobb JF, Braciszewski JM, Arnsten JH, Murphy MT, Horigian VE, Stotts AL, Beers D, Bradley K. Does implementation of office based addiction treatment by a nurse care manager increase the duration of OUD treatment in primary care? A secondary analysis of the PROUD randomized control trial. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2024 Dec 01; 265:112497. PMID: 39550823.
Published on 11/8/2024Rosenmoss S, LaRochelle M, Bearnot B, Weinstein Z, So-Armah K, Moyo P, Yan S, Walley AY, Kimmel SD. Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Referral Rejection From Postacute Care Facilities Among People With Opioid Use Disorder in Massachusetts. J Addict Med. 2025 Mar-Apr 01; 19(2):165-171. PMID: 39514897.
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 9/10/2024Shearer R, Hagedorn H, Englander H, Siegler T, Kibben R, Fawole A, Patten A, Fitzpatrick A, Laes J, Fernando J, Appleton N, Oot E, Titus H, Krawczyk N, Weinstein Z, McNeely J, Baukol P, Ghitza U, Gustafson D, Bart G, Bazzi A. Barriers and facilitators to implementing treatment for opioid use disorder in community hospitals. J Subst Use Addict Treat. 2024 Dec; 167:209520. PMID: 39265915.
Published on 9/1/2024McNeely J, Wang SS, Rostam Abadi Y, Barron C, Billings J, Tarpey T, Fernando J, Appleton N, Fawole A, Mazumdar M, Weinstein ZM, Kalyanaraman Marcello R, Dolle J, Cooke C, Siddiqui S, King C. Addiction Consultation Services for Opioid Use Disorder Treatment Initiation and Engagement: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Intern Med. 2024 Sep 01; 184(9):1106-1115. PMID: 39073796.
Published on 8/5/2024Weinstein ZM, Magane KM, Lodi S, Ventura AS, Bazzi AR, Blodgett J, Fielman S, Davoust M, Shea MG, Chen CA, Cheng A, Theisen J, Blakemore S, Saitz R. The Impact of COVID-19 on Substance Use and Related Consequences Among Patients in Office-based Opioid Use Disorder Treatment. J Addict Med. 2025 Jan-Feb 01; 19(1):12-19. PMID: 39101572.
Published on 6/10/2024Bobb JF, Idu AE, Qiu H, Yu O, Boudreau DM, Wartko PD, Matthews AG, McCormack J, Lee AK, Campbell CI, Saxon AJ, Liu DS, Altschuler A, Samet JH, Northrup TF, Braciszewski JM, Murphy MT, Arnsten JH, Cunningham CO, Horigian VE, Szapocznik J, Glass JE, Caldeiro RM, Tsui JI, Burganowski RP, Weinstein ZM, Murphy SM, Hyun N, Bradley KA. Offering nurse care management for opioid use disorder in primary care: Impact on emergency and hospital utilization in a cluster-randomized implementation trial. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2024 Aug 01; 261:111350. PMID: 38875880.
Media Mentions
Published on 3/5/2024
How the U.S. is sabotaging its best tools to prevent deaths in the opioid epidemic
Published on 5/17/2022
BMC Pilots Training Program to Improve Post-Acute Care for Patients with Substance Use Disorder
Published on 12/2/2018
Boston Sunday Review: Dr. Zoe Weinstein, BMC
Published on 3/31/2018
Addiction treatment policies pose risk to incarcerated patients
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