Experts by Expertise: Opioid Epidemic

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11/7/19
Richard D. Blondell

Professor Emeritus of Family Medicine

Expertise: addiction, substance abuse, opioids
Contact: Richard Blondell can be reached most quickly through Ellen Goldbaum in University Communications at 716-645-4605 or goldbaum@buffalo.edu, or Douglas Sitler in University Communications at 716-645-9069 or drsitler@buffalo.edu.
8/16/21
Yu-Ping Chang

Patricia H. and Richard E. Garman Endowed Professor of Nursing

Expertise: mental health; substance abuse and addiction; family caregiving and dementia

Phone: 716-829-2015
Email: yc73@buffalo.edu
6/16/20
Tildabeth Doscher

Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine

Expertise: addiction medicine, substance use treatment, opioid epidemic, methadone
Phone: 716-829-6775. Doscher can also be reached through Ellen Goldbaum in University Communications at 716-645-4605 or goldbaum@buffalo.edu, or Douglas Sitler in University Communications at 716-645-9069 or drsitler@buffalo.edu.
Email: tildabet@buffalo.edu
12/16/22
Sarah Cercone Heavey

Clinical Assistant Professor of Community Health and Health Behavior

Expertise: opioid use disorder, medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorder, naloxone, overdose, veterans’ mental health, suicide prevention, mental health

Phone: 716-829-6752
Email: scheavey@buffalo.edu
3/3/23
David Herzberg
Professor of History

Expertise: opioid epidemic; history of prescription drugs, street drugs and other psychoactive substances; drug policy and drug wars; drugs and popular culture; addiction; drugs and social inequalities of race and gender
Phone: 716-645-8416

Email: herzberg@buffalo.edu
5/24/23
Kenneth E. Leonard
Director of the Clinical and Research Institute on Addictions

Expertise: alcohol, substance abuse and aggression; effects of substance use on marriage, families and relationships; interpersonal (domestic) violence; medical and recreational marijuana; prescription painkillers
Phone: 716-887-2566
Email: leonard@ria.buffalo.edu
2/19/19
Nancy Nielsen
Senior Associate Dean for Health Policy in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
Expertise: Affordable Care Act, Medicare for all, health care policy, Medicare and Medicaid policy, clinicians’ response to the opioid epidemic
Phone: 716-207-6866
Email: nielse@buffalo.edu
12/18/20
Sarahmona Przybyla

Assistant Professor of Community Health and Health Behavior
Expertise: HIV/AIDS prevention, antiretroviral therapy adherence, pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), public health preparedness and response
Phone: 716-829-6750
Email: mona@buffalo.edu