Andrea Knittel, MD, PhD, FACAG
Andrea K. Knittel, MD PhD is Assistant Professor and Medical Director
for Incarcerated Women's Health at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill School of Medicine. She completed her MD and PhD degrees
at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and her OB/GYN residency at
the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Knittel is a
clinician and researcher focused on illuminating and mitigating the
reproductive health disparities facing people who experience
incarceration across the life course. In her clinical work, she
provides full spectrum OB/GYN care to women, trans men, and gender
expansive people assigned female at intake in the NC state prison
system. Her current research work addresses the obstetric and
gynecologic impact of incarceration, including on pregnancies affected
by opioid use disorder, HIV and STI prevention, and experiences of
menopause.
Andrew Saxon, MD
Preceding his entry into psychiatry, Dr. Saxon completed an internal
medicine internship and worked for 4 years as an emergency room
physician. Subsequent to his general psychiatry residency at the
University of Washington, Dr. Saxon has more than three decades of
experience as a clinical and research addiction psychiatrist. Dr.
Saxon is board certified with added qualifications in addiction
psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. Dr.
Saxon sits on the editorial boards of the journals,
Drug and Alcohol Dependence and General Hospital Psychiatry
and is section editor for substance use disorders for
UpToDate. He is a lifetime Distinguished Fellow of the
American Psychiatric Association, where he served from 2017-2019 as
that organization’s Chair of the Council on Addiction Psychiatry, and
a Fellow of the American Society of Addiction Medicine, as well as a
member of College on Problems of Drug Dependence and of American
Academy of Addiction Psychiatry.
Dr. Saxon’s current research work is supported by the VA, the National
Institute on Drug Abuse, and National Institute of Mental Health and
involves pharmacotherapies and psychotherapies for alcohol, tobacco,
and opioid use disorders, work in co-occurrence of substance use
disorders and posttraumatic stress disorder, phenomenology and
epidemiology of cannabis use, and treatment of substance use in
primary care. He has more than 190 papers published in peer reviewed
journals and has done numerous conference presentations.
Ash Woods, CFSD (BADT), PCD (NAPS)
Ash Woods (they/them) is a trans full spectrum doula living on Coast
Salish lands in Seattle WA. They provide doula services to those who
are unhoused and using substances, or in recovery. They work at the
People's Harm Reduction Alliance coordinating the mail order Naloxone
program for WA state, at Swedish Providence Medical Center as part of
the doula team, and at Harm Reduction Doula Collective.
Caitlin Martin, MD, MPH
Caitlin Eileen Martin is the Director of OBGYN Addiction Services at
Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia. She received
her B.S. at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill followed by
degrees in Public Health and Medicine from Johns Hopkins. She
completed her residency in OBGYN at UNC Chapel Hill. As a
board-certified physician in both Obstetrics and Gynecology and
Addiction Medicine, she cares for women with substance use disorders
through the lifespan. In doing so, she leads the VCU OB MOTIVATE
program that provides integrated OBGYN and addiction treatment with
wrap- around services to pregnant and parenting people. Lastly, as a
physician scientist, her research aims to advance the evidence base
informing the individualization of addiction treatments by sex, gender
and social determinates of health.
Caleb Banta-Green, PhD, MPH, MSW
Dr. Banta-Green is the director of the UW Center for Community-Engaged
Drug Education, Epidemiology and Research (CEDEER) at ADAI, Research
Professor at the UW Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences,
Addictions, Drug & Alcohol Institute, and mentors graduate students at
the UW School of Public Health. His main area of research is substance
use disorders involving opioids and stimulants and interventions to
support recovery and reduce substance-related harms. He is
particularly interested in developing interventions that are
accessible to all people, including those who are most marginalized,
such as those who are unhoused, utilizing harm reduction services, or
in the criminal legal system. He provides technical assistance and
evaluation services for public health and safety interventions
including the website http://stopoverdose.org, and
information for the general public and professionals about
effective treatments.
Dr. Banta-Green is an epidemiologist and reports drug trends across WA
State, with
data available online, has
been the Seattle area representative to the National Institute on Drug
Abuse’s drug epidemiology work group since 2001, and partners with
state and local agencies on drug epidemiology tracking and reporting.
Dr. Banta-Green has an MSW, an MPH, and a PhD in Health Services
Research from the School of Public Health, all from the UW. He serves
on several local, state, and federal workgroups and committees related
to epidemiology, policy, and interventions for those who use illicit
substances. He is a member of the U.S. Health and Human Service’s
Interdepartmental Substance Use Disorders Coordinating Committee. He
served as senior science advisor for the Office of National Drug
Control Policy in the Executive Office of the President in 2012.
Dr. Banta-Green is interviewed regularly by local and national news
media about substance use, drug trends, and effective interventions.
Gregory Rudolf, MD, DFASAM
Dr. Rudolf has been practicing pain medicine and addiction medicine at
Swedish Pain Services since 2004, adding medical acupuncture in 2007.
He holds board certifications in these 3 specialties as well as in his
initial field of training, family medicine. Dr Rudolf believes that
the best outcomes are achieved when patient and practitioner can work
together longitudinally to implement a safe, therapeutically
sustainable and mutually agreeable plan of care that is centered on
the patient as a whole person.
Dr Rudolf is the immediate past president of the WA Society of
Addiction Medicine and has served for eight years on its board of
directors. He is the current chair of the American Society of
Addiction Medicine Pain and Addiction Committee and a member of the
ASAM Medical Education Council, and is a clinical associate professor
at the UW School of Medicine.
Jen Wells, MD
Dr. Jennifer Wells is Director of the Women’s Mental Health Division
of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine for Carilion
Clinic in Roanoke VA. She is board certified in Psychiatry and
Addiction Medicine and serves as an assistant professor for Virginia
Tech-Carilion School of Medicine. She actively teaches both medical
students and residents from a variety of disciplines in her role as
both an inpatient psychiatric attending and outpatient clinician
specializing in reproductive psychiatry. Her focus for the last 10
years has been on treating mental health and addiction disorders in
pregnant and parenting women. She currently runs an MAT program with ~
75 pregnant and parenting women as part of the Carilion Clinic OBAT
program.
She graduated from UC Davis as an undergraduate and matriculated to
Georgetown University School of Medicine. She then trained as an
OB/GYN at the University of CA, San Francisco. After completing her
OB/GYN residency, she left medicine to focus on other endeavors and
eventually returned to complete an additional psychiatric residency at
Virginia Tech-Carilion School of Medicine. Her passion for treating
mental health and addiction issues in women was born of both her
training and personal experience. In her spare time, she enjoys hiking
throughout the US, traveling around the globe for scuba and safari
adventures and spending time with her beloved 2 dogs.
Jessica Gray, MD
Dr. Jessica Gray is a dually board-certified family medicine physician
and addiction specialist in the departments of Medicine at
Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Pediatrics in Massachusetts
General Hospital for Children (MGHfC). She is associate program
director for the MGH Addiction Medicine Fellowship and Medical
Director of the HOPE Clinic at MGH, where she cares for women with
substance use disorders and their families from time of conception
through the first two years postpartum. She also sees patients at the
MGH Bridge Clinic, a low threshold outpatient substance use treatment
clinic, is a physician consultant for the State-funded MCSTAP
(Massachusetts Consultation Service for Treatment of Addiction and
Pain), and is secretary of the Massachusetts Society of Addiction
Medicine (MASAM) Board of Directors.
Prior to coming to MGH Dr. Gray completed her family medicine
residency and addiction medicine fellowship at Boston Medical Center
and worked as a primary care doctor at a federally qualified health
center in Dorchester, Massachusetts. She is passionate about caring
and advocating for marginalized populations and supporting clinicians
and others who care for patients with substance use disorders.
Jocelyn James, MD
Jocelyn James is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University
of Washington. She practices internal medicine and addiction medicine
at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, providing primary care in the
Adult Medicine Clinic and at a satellite clinic at Evergreen Treatment
Services, an opioid treatment program. She also attends on the
inpatient Addiction Consult Service and is the co-Medical Director of
an interprofessional mobile health outreach clinic serving people in
emergency housing. Her clinical, teaching, and research interests
include hepatitis C treatment and care of people with substance use
disorder.
Joseph Merrill, MD, MPH
Joseph O. Merrill, MD MPH is a Professor of Medicine and the Addiction
Medicine Fellowship Program Director at the University of Washington
School of Medicine. He is an internal medicine and addiction medicine
physician who co-directs the Harborview Medical Center Opioid
Treatment Network.
Kate Marshall, MD, FASAM
Kate Marshall, MD, FASAM, is a member of the department of addiction
medicine at Kaiser Permanente Northwest. She obtained her doctorate at
Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), completed residency and a
chief residency in internal medicine at Providence St. Vincent Medical
Center in Portland, Oregon, and fellowships in addiction medicine and
internal medicine at OHSU. She is currently Vice President of the
Oregon chapter of the American Society of Addiction Medicine and will
serve as president of the chapter for 2023-2024.
Representative Lauren Davis, 32nd Legislative District
Lauren Davis represents the 32nd Legislative District in the
Washington State House of Representatives, which includes Shoreline,
Lynnwood, northwest Seattle, south Edmonds, Mountlake Terrace and
Woodway. She was the founding Executive Director and is the current
Strategy Director of the Washington Recovery Alliance. The WRA is a
grassroots movement of individuals and families impacted by addiction
and mental health challenges driving large-scale change in public
policy and public understanding. Prior to serving in public office,
Lauren led efforts to pass 2016’s Ricky’s Law, named after her best
friend, which created an unprecedented crisis treatment system for
youth and adults with life-threatening addiction. She received her
bachelor's degree in Ethnic Studies from Brown University and began
her career teaching Head Start preschool at a transitional housing
facility. She then spent several years researching education access as
a Fulbright Scholar in Ghana, West Africa. While there, Lauren started
a small textile business that provides job training for adolescent
girls and sustainable revenue for a Ghanaian-run educational NGO. Upon
her return to the US, Lauren worked as an international development
consultant for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. She then helped to
launch Forefront, a suicide prevention nonprofit, where she directed
school-based mental health programs. She has also taught mental health
policy in the Masters program at the UW School of Social Work. In the
legislature, Lauren's work centers on behavioral health treatment and
recovery and criminal legal system reform.
Lucinda Grande, MD, FASAM
Lucinda Grande, MD is a partner at Pioneer Family Practice in Lacey,
Washington, where she practices primary care with a special interest
in addiction and chronic pain. She was a co-founder of the Olympia
Bupe Clinic, a low-barrier buprenorphine clinic in Olympia, and served
as Medical Director there from 2019 to 2021.
In the past 11 years, Dr. Grande has prescribed ketamine to over 500
patients with chronic pain and/or depression, using a strategy of
daily self-administered sublingual microdosing. She developed a
protocol for that practice which has been used by 145 prescribers in
Washington and Oregon. In the past year she has been adapting that
strategy to help patients transition from fentanyl to buprenorphine.
Dr. Grande’s medical degree is from the University of Washington
School of Medicine in Seattle. She completed her family medicine
residency at St. Peter Family Medicine in Olympia, Washington. She is
a Clinical Assistant Professor in the University of Washington School
of Medicine Department of Family Medicine. She is first author on a
review of evidence on buprenorphine dose limits in press in Journal of
Addiction Medicine.
Marcela Smid, MD, MA, MS
Marcela Smid MD, MA, MS is a board certified Maternal Fetal Medicine
and Addiction Medicine physician and Assistant Professor at the
University of Utah. She is the medical director of the Substance Use &
Pregnancy – Recovery, Addiction, Dependence (SUPeRAD) specialty
prenatal clinic, a multi- disciplinary clinic for pregnant and
postpartum individuals with substance use disorder. She has been a
member of the Utah Perinatal Mortality Committee since 2016. Her
research focus is on perinatal addiction, interventions for pregnant
and postpartum individuals with substance use disorders, hepatitis C,
maternal mortality and maternal mental health.
Mark Duncan, MD
Mark Duncan, M.D. is an Assistant Professor at the University of
Washington. He has pursued a career at the intersection of mental
health and primary care, training in both family medicine and
addiction psychiatry. He currently practices at the UW Northgate
primary care clinic and the UW outpatient psychiatry clinic. He is the
co-medical director for the University of Washington Psychiatry and
Addiction Case Conference (UW PACC) a free weekly educational webinar
and consultation service for WA state. His focus is around bringing
addiction treatment to primary care settings. Dr. Duncan also spends
significant time training and supervising medical trainees at all of
his clinical sites.
Sharon Ostfeld-Jones, MD
Dr. Ostfeld-Jones is a Med-Peds hospitalist — she spends half her
clinical time taking care of hospitalized adults and half taking care
of hospitalized kids, including newborns during their birth
hospitalization. She is a medical educator, training medical students
in their early clinical skills and working with medical students and
residents in the hospital, including as one of the faculty leaders of
the Race, Bias, and Advocacy in Medicine distinction pathway for
residents. She has research and quality improvement interests in
diagnostic reasoning, reducing medical errors, breastfeeding medicine,
and in improving health disparities. She has been working in prenatal
substance exposure for over two years and in that time has
collaborated with local and national partners committed to improving
care for families affected by substance use and substance use
disorders.
She went to Oberlin College for a BA in Politics, University of
Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry for her MD and came to Yale
for Combined Internal Medicine-Pediatrics Residency which she
completed in 2018. She is a mother to Cliff, age 6, and Pepper, age 1,
and is an avid gardener.
Tom Hutch, MD, FASAM
Tom Hutch, MD, FASAM is the medical director of We Care Daily Clinics,
an opioid treatment program in Auburn, Washington, with mobile
medication units serving Seattle and the Puget Sound region. He
completed his medical training in Family Medicine at Swedish Medical
Center – First Hill in Seattle, where he then taught residents as a
faculty physician before working to address systemic causes of
behavioral health disorders and addiction in community health centers
and as a county jail physician with Public Health – Seattle & King
County. Dr. Hutch is a clinical instructor in the University of
Washington Department of Family Medicine and works with the Washington
Health Care Authority to expand hepatitis C treatment access.
Tricia Wright, MD, MS
Tricia Wright, MD MS is a Professor of Clinical Medicine in the
Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Health at the
University of California, San Francisco where she works both as an Ob
Hospitalist and Addiction Medicine provider. Previously she was at the
University of Hawai‘i and founded the Path Clinic, a perinatal clinic
specializing in the care of pregnant and parenting women with
Substance Use Disorders. She is board certified in both Obstetrics and
Gynecology and Addiction Medicine and a Fellow of the American College
of Obstetrics and Gynecology and a Distinguished Fellow of the
American Society of Addiction Medicine. She has published multiple
papers on pregnancy and addiction as well as a textbook
Opioid Use Disorders in Pregnancy published in 2018 by
Cambridge University Press.
Dr. Wright completed her undergraduate degree in Biological Sciences
from Stanford University, her MD from the University of Michigan. She
completed her residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology from the
University of New Mexico and obtained a Master’s Degree in Clinical
Research from the University of Hawai‘i.
Trevor Dickey, MD, MPH
Trevor Dickey completed his medical education at Duke University in
North Carolina along with a Master of Public Health at University of
North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He completed his residency at the Swedish
Cherry Hill Family Medicine Residency program in Seattle, WA. He
completed a fellowship in Addiction Medicine and a second fellowship
in Hospital Medicine, both at Swedish Medical Center. He splits his
time in between working as a primary care physician with the Seattle
Indian Health Board and working as a hospitalist with Swedish Medical
Center. His clinical interests include clinical teaching of residents
and medical students. In his free time, he enjoys cooking and being
outside with his two sons.
Vania Rudolf, MD, MPH, DFASAM
Dr. Rudolf (she/her) is a primary care and addiction medicine
physician who works at the Addiction Recovery Services, Swedish
Medical Center, Seattle, WA. She is the current Chair of the National
Women and Addiction Group (WAG), part of ASAM, the newly elected
president for WSAM and the medical director for addiction services at
Swedish. She is a lifelong learner with training in family medicine,
completed fellowships in addiction, high risk OB, integrative medicine
and public health, skills that help her be a healer and an advocate
for transformative frameworks that offer value-based, gender,
culturally and racially equitable care with focus on the whole person.
She is dedicated to offer compassionate, trauma-responsive care to
birthing parents, children and families, and to support people with
SUD live full and satisfied lives.