Assistant Professor
Columbia University/New York State Psychiatric Institute
Brooklyn, New York
Christina A. Brezing, MD is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry in the Division on Substance Use Disorders at Columbia University Irving Medical Center where she studies medication development for substance use disorders. She is Principal Investigator of two NIDA-funded grants including a study exploring the comparative effectiveness of telehealth buprenorphine treatment of Opioid Use Disorder. She was recently awarded the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation COVID-19 Fund to Retain Clinical Scientists that will support her research to understand the effects of androgen deficiency in men with Opioid Use Disorder. She was a Columbia Hadar Fellow and has received research support through the Columbia Smither’s Foundation and the Dartmouth Center for Technology and Behavioral Health. She has served as a co-investigator or study physician on dozens of NIDA-funded medication treatment trials for substance use disorders. She is the director of the addiction curriculum for the Columbia psychiatry residency and co-director of the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry’s Advanced Addiction Psychopharmacology course.
PC16 - Buprenorphine in the Age of Fentanyl
Sunday, May 19, 2024
2:00 PM – 4:00 PM PST