The Addiction Medicine Fellowship equips fellows with comprehensive, evidence-based skills to address substance use disorders and addictive behaviors across diverse settings.
About the Program
Director: Anna Squibb, M.D.
Addiction Medicine Fellowship Training:
- Supports multi-specialty training fellows
- Focuses on the provision of care for persons with unhealthy substance use, substance use disorders (SUDs), and other addictive disorders
- Trains to work in diverse settings, including clinical medicine, public health, education, and research.
- Treats patients across the lifespan who have different degrees of disease severity—from those at risk, to those with advanced and complicated disease, to those in recovery.
Program Goals
- Evidence Based Care - Training fellows in evidence-based care of substance use disorders
- Patient Centered Care - Providing equitable and compassionate care to each person in the context of their culture, community, individual characteristics and personal goals
- Advocacy - Leveraging the faculty, staff, fellows' knowledge, skills, and time to advocate for persons seeking help for substance use disorders and associated co-occurring conditions
- Community Education - Assuring that the fellowship provides knowledge of evidence-based care and improves health literacy of substance use disorders for individuals, medical staff, advanced practice providers, and community organizations to collaborate with partners and optimize the care in our community.
Practice Sites
Division of Addiction Medicine
The United States is experiencing an unprecedented surge in overdose death, and communities across the nation are contending with widespread issues of substance use disorders. Medical schools must prepare students to care for individuals struggling with substance use disorders (SUDs), as well as more complex, co-occurring conditions, including psychiatric disorders and infectious diseases, that may accompany chronic substance use.
Current research activities include interprofessional work on emergent issues in SUD treatment, including how to modify treatment procedures in light of a drug supply saturated with illicit fentanyl and fentanyl analogues, incorporating telehealth into treatment programs, treating pregnant women struggling with SUDs, and developing specialized forms of trauma-informed care for individuals struggling with co-occurring SUD and mental health disorders.