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Addiction Medicine Fellowship

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The Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) Addiction Medicine Fellowship Program is a one-year, Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)-accredited program open to physicians who have completed any ACGME-accredited residency program. Our mission is to train the next generation of leaders in the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and recovery of individuals with substance use disorders and related medical and psychiatric co-morbidities. The program prepares fellows for a variety of academic and clinical opportunities in the field of addiction medicine. Fellows completing the program will qualify to sit for the addiction medicine board exam from the American Board of Preventive Medicine.​

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We provide fellows with an opportunity to gain skills in the treatment of patients with substance use disorders who have co-morbid psychiatric disorders as well as serious medical complications related to their substance use. Fellows will gain experience by working with addiction specialists who are primary care physicians, medical toxicologists, psychiatrists, infectious disease specialists, and pain specialists during both inpatient and outpatient rotations. In addition, fellows will be encouraged to work with our diverse group of faculty members to participate in scholarly projects, present at national conferences, and engage in quality improvement efforts.

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Learn more from Joji Suzuki, MD, about opioid addiction treatments and how they can help people recover.​​

Clinical Training Sites

We provide cutting-edge training in the treatment of substance use disorders that span the entire spectrum of treatment levels and populations, in both inpatient and outpatient settings. The year will be divided into rotations that are two weeks in duration. The training sites include:

Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH)

Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital (BWFH)

High Point Treatment Center, Brockton (HPTC)

Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH)

Correctional addiction treatment (Spectrum Health Systems, MCI-Framingham)

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Curriculum

The academic year starts with a two-week orientation to welcome fellows to the program and give them the opportunity to meet faculty members and peers in the department. Site visits to community programs and off-site locations are also scheduled during this time.

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During the fellowship, fellows will meet with the program leadership weekly; attend weekly didactics and monthly journal clubs; participate in the Clinical Addiction Research and Education (CARE) case conferences run by the Boston Medical Center; present a CARE case conference; participate in the national didactic webinar series organized by the American College of Academic Addiction Medicine; and attend a monthly Motivational Interviewing Learning Group session to obtain feedback on their motivational interviewing practice.

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Our didactic curriculum covers a wide range of topics, including:

  • Neurobiology

  • Epidemiology

  • Trauma-informed care

  • Addiction consultation services

  • Safe opioid prescribing in primary care

  • Addiction and infectious disease

  • Addiction treatment in correctional settings

  • Alcohol use disorder and opioid use disorder treatments

  • Buprenorphine inductions (macro-dosing; low-dose induction)

  • Pain and addiction

  • Low-threshold addiction treatment

  • Benzodiazepines

  • Cocaine and stimulants

  • Cannabis, medical marijuana

  • Psychedelics/hallucinogens

  • Medical toxicology

  • Alcohol withdrawal syndromes

  • Addiction and athletes

  • Anabolic-androgenic steroids

  • Impaired physician health services

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Program Leadership

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Joji Suzuki, MD

Program Director

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Lauren Malishchak, MD

Assistant Program Director

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J. Miller Douglas, MD 

Internal Medicine Residency at Emory University School of Medicine

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Emory University School of Medicine

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Aaron Schumacher, MD

Family Medicine Residency at Woodwinds Hospital

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University of Minnesota Medical School - Twin Cities

Our Current Fellows

Graduation Memories

 Class of 2026 

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 Class of 2025 

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Our Past Fellows

2025-2026

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Olivia Holodnik, DO

Emergency Medicine Residency at Medical University of South Carolina

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West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine

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Sarah Darweesh, MD

Family Medicine Residency at Western Michigan University/Homer Stryker School Of Medicine

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Al-Kindy College of Medicine

2025-2024

"I returned to Boston to pursue a combined residency in Family Medicine & Psychiatry at Boston Medical Center, where I served as Chief Resident. I felt Brigham and Women's Addiction Medicine Fellowship was a perfect blend of medicine and psychiatry, since it is one of the few Addiction Medicine programs housed within a Department of Psychiatry. I enjoyed the flexibility and comprehensiveness of this Addiction Medicine curriculum with rotation experiences in Perinatal Addiction with the MGH HOPE Clinic, Adolescent Addiction at Boston Children's ASAP Clinic, Level 4 Detox at the Faulkner as the medicine primary team, inpatient Dual Diagnosis at McLean's Proctor 1 unit, Addiction CL at the main Brigham hospital, as well as embedded addiction consults within Brigham's Jen Center for Primary Care. I now intend to focus my clinical work at the intersection of addiction medicine and addiction psychiatry, hoping to maximize patients' lifespans while minimizing morbidity. Now that I have finished my fellowship at BWH, I will be moving back to the Midwest to serve as founding Program Director of the nation's 6th Family Medicine-Psychiatry combined program at University of Illinois Chicago, where I will also be a core attending on a new Addiction Consult Service in addition to roles in primary care and collaborative care psychiatry."

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2024-2023

2024-2023

2023-2022

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Aamani Chava, MD

Psychiatry Residency at Bergen New Bridge Medical Center

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NRI Medical College & General Hospital

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Edmond Hakimi, DO

Internal Medicine Residency at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital

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NYIT College of Osteopathic Medicine

How to Apply

We accept applications through the Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS)

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For further information on ERAS and submission timelines, please review ERAS Fellowship Timeline

In order to obtain your ERAS token: ERAS Token

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For further information and/or application materials please contact the below:

AddictionMedicineFellowship@BWH.HARVARD.EDU

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The fellowship partakes in the National Resident Match Program (NRMP) or “The Match”. Interviews are conducted from September through October. “Match Day” occurs in November.

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Application Requirements 

In your application, please submit:

  • CV

  • Personal statement describing your interests, achievements, and career goals

  • Three letters of recommendation, with at least one coming from your program director

  • United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) scores

Any other documents as required by ERAS

Eligibility

Applicants must have completed or plan to complete an ACGME-accredited anesthesiology, emergency medicine, family medicine, internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics, preventive medicine, or psychiatry residency prior to the start of fellowship.

 

A full Massachusetts medical license is required before starting the fellowship as well as a physician waiver to prescribe buprenorphine.

Timeline

Applications will be reviewed upon submission with interviews given on a rolling basis. Interviews will take place in the fall.

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