About

Shuchin Shukla, MD, MPH, was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. He completed medical school and public health school at Tulane University and completed a residency in family medicine at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, New York.  He worked in the South Bronx for 5 years following residency, providing primary care for adults and children, as well as for adults living with HIV. He also served as medical director for Montefiore Project INSPIRE, a primary care-based Hepatitis C treatment program.  He then moved with his family to Asheville, North Carolina, where he served at Mountain Area Health Education Center (MAHEC) as faculty physician and Clinical Director of Health Integration.  He now provides clinical addiction medical services at Julian F. Keith Alcohol and Drug Addiction Treatment Center, consults for Buncombe County, North Carolina around overdose prevention, and works on projects at University of North Carolina, including post overdose response teams case management software development and technical assistance for programs serving communities affected by the substance use and criminal justice involvement.