Evan Ashkin, MD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: My work centers on health for people and communities impacted by incarcerations and racial health disparities perpetuated by the criminal legal system . Specifically I focus on connections to essentia … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Family Medicine |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Addiction/Substance Use Disorder, Criminal Justice, Health Equity, Health Services, Social Medicine |
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AFFILIATIONS: Family Medicine, Psychiatry |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Addiction/Substance Use Disorder, Medical Education, Mental illness, Women's Health |
Jessica Barnhill, MD, MPH |
| Clinical / Research Focus: My clinical and research focus is on mind-body approaches to health. I incorporate the VAs Whole Health materials into my individual integrative medical consults and build upon these concepts in group … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Addiction/Substance Use Disorder, Apps-Devices, Behavior, Clinical Trials, Electronic Medicine, Health Equity, Health Services, Implementation Science, Medical Education, Mental illness, Population-based, Quality of Life, Rehabilitation, Sleep |
Joyce Besheer, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Dr. Besheer’s research interests focus on understanding the neural mechanisms that contribute to alcohol use disorders and drug addiction. One of her areas of interest is how stress can impact … Read more |
| Mentors: | Undergraduate Students, Medical Students, Graduate Students |
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AFFILIATIONS: Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies, Psychiatry |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Addiction/Substance Use Disorder, Behavior, Mental illness, Neurobiology, Pharmacology |
M. Justin Byron, PhD, MHS |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Other Research and/or Clinical Interests: tobacco control, health behavior, public health I work at the intersection of communication science, behavior change, and regulatory policy. My methodological … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Family Medicine, Lineberger Cancer Center |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Addiction/Substance Use Disorder, Global Health, Health Services, Other, Population-based |
Martin F. Casey, MD, MPH |
| Clinical / Research Focus: I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine . I am a clinician-researcher with an interest in leveraging the unique setting in which emergency medical care is provided to augme … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Emergency Medicine, Pharmacology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Addiction/Substance Use Disorder, Aging/Geriatrics, Clinical Trials, Health Services, Implementation Science, Pharmacology |
Dan Christoffel, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: The ultimate goal of our research is to understand how adaptive changes in brain function occur and how this can lead to the development of psychiatric disorders. We employ cutting-edge technologies t … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Neuroscience Center |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Addiction/Substance Use Disorder, Behavior, Neurobiology, Physiology |
Leon Coleman, MD, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: The overriding goal is to identify novel treatments for immune related conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease, addiction, cancer and trauma. Studies in addiction focus on alcohol use disorder and coca … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Pharmacology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Addiction/Substance Use Disorder, Aging/Geriatrics, Behavior, Cancer Biology, Cell Biology, Drug Delivery, Immunology, Mental illness |
Fulton Crews, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Mental disease, including addiction and neurodegeneration, are central themes of Dr. Crews’s research. Addiction has many components, one of which is long-term changes in gene expression and structure … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies, Pharmacology, Psychiatry |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Addiction/Substance Use Disorder, Behavior, Cell Signaling, Neurobiology |
James Crowley, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Dr. Crowley’s research focuses on psychiatric genomics and includes molecular genetic, epidemiological and twin studies of several psychiatric disorders, including obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Genetics, Psychiatry |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Addiction/Substance Use Disorder, Autism, Behavior, Bioethics, Bioinformatics, Developmental Biology, Drug Discovery, Genetics, Genomics, Mental illness, Molecular Biology, Molecular Medicine, Neurobiology, Pharmacology, Population-based, Translational Medicine |
Donna Evon, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Donna Evon is a clinical psychologist and social scientist who has worked in the field of chronic liver disease for 18 years. She is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hep … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: (DOM) Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Department of Medicine (DOM) |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Addiction/Substance Use Disorder, Behavior, Clinical Trials, Comparative Effectiveness, Diabetes, Gastrointestinal Biology, Health Services, Mental illness, Metabolism, Quality of Life, Sleep |
Kelly Bossenbroek Fedoriw, MD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Medical Student Education Opioid Use Disorder in primary care |
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AFFILIATIONS: Family Medicine |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Addiction/Substance Use Disorder |










