Addiction Medicine Fellowship

Testimony coming soon! 

"I have always known that I wanted to be a primary care provider to underserved patients. What I didn’t  know, and never learned in my didactic years in medical school, was the need for primary care providers to not only identify substance use disorders, but to provide medication assisted treatment. It wasn’t until my rotations in east Tennessee, and then my residency training here in southwest Virginia, that I came to understand the ways in which substance use affects every other health outcome for our patients. I also had the privilege to see the ways in which remission from substance use changes the lives of not just my patients, but their entire families. These experiences drove me to seek more training in addiction medicine. 

Carilion Clinic’s Addiction Medicine fellowship was my first choice for training – not only because of the great needs in this region (think – Beth Macy’s “Dopesick” or Barbara Kingsolver’s “Demon Copperhead”), but because of the unique opportunities the program offers. For me, what stood out was the focus on pregnant and parenting women in the Emerald Clinic and the chance to get out of the clinic and meet patients where they are at with the Virginia Harm Reduction Coalition. I am so thrilled to be learning from this multi-disciplinary, multi-specialty team."