Antje M. Barreveld MD

Dr. Antje M. Barreveld, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology at Tufts University School of Medicine. She is the Medical Director of the Pain Management Services and co-Founder and Director of Education and Outreach for the Substance Use Services (SUS). She is Board Certified in Anesthesiology and Pain Management and has worked with Commonwealth Anesthesia Associates at Newton-Wellesley Hospital since 2012. Dr. Barreveld is also a Clinical Researcher at Harvard Medical School in the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, MA. She graduated from the University of California, San Francisco Medical School and completed her Residency in Anesthesiology and Fellowship in Pain Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital.

Dr. Barreveld teaches at Tufts University School of Medicine and Harvard Medical School on safe pain management principles and opioid use disorder prevention and treatment. She represents Newton-Wellesley Hospital on various Mass General Brigham working groups and committees around safe opioid prescribing practices, substance use disorder prevention and treatment, and standardized post-surgical pain care. As Director of Education and Outreach for SUS, she collaborates with community organizations and departments of public health and leads hospital-wide and community education initiatives and programs around substance use awareness, prevention, and treatment.

Dr. Barreveld is a nationally recognized expert in pain education and substance use prevention efforts. She is an appointed expert to the American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine Substance Use Disorder Working Group. She served as an invited member of the National Quality Forum (NQF) technical expert panel for opioid and opioid use disorder, to work towards consensus decisions regarding the current state of opioid-related healthcare quality measures. She served as Co-Principal Investigator of the Harvard School of Dental Medicine and Brigham and Women's Hospital Center of Excellence in Pain Education (CoEPE), designated by the National Institutes of Health Pain Consortium. She is co-Editor for the Education Section of Pain Medicine, the official journal of the American Academy of Pain Medicine, for whom she also serves as Chair of the Opioid Committee since 2020.

Dr. Barreveld is a 2020 Mayday Pain & Society Fellow, selected as one of 12 national Fellows to build the next generation of pain experts to provide evidence-based and solutions-focused information about pain care and treatment, as well as promising research emerging in the field. Dr. Barreveld is co-Editor of Pain Care Essentials, a comprehensive resource for educators, students, and post-graduates on the basics needed to provide compassionate, multimodal pain care, published by Oxford University Press in 2020.