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Daniel P. Alford

Daniel P. Alford MD, MPH, FACP, DFASAM

Pain Management, Internal Medicine, Addiction Medicine
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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Dr. Daniel P. Alford, MD, MPH is Professor of Medicine, Associate Dean of Continuing Medical Education, and Director of the Safe and Competent Opioid Prescribing Education (SCOPE of Pain) program at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM). He is on staff in the Section of General Internal Medicine and director of the Clinical Addiction Research and Education (CARE) Unit at Boston Medical Center (BMC). He is also the Medical Director of the Boston University Evidence-based SBIRT Student Training (BESST) Project and the Massachusetts SBIRT Training and Technical Assistance (MASBIRT TTA) program.

He is the past-president of the Association for Medical Education and Research in Substance Abuse (AMERICA). He was recognized as a Champion of Change by the White House. In 2014 he received the American Medical Association “Award for Health Education” and in 2016 was awarded the first Educator of the Year Award by the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) and the Award for Distinguished Contributions to Behavioral Medicine by the American College of Physicians (ACP). His clinical, educational and research interests focus on opioid use disorders and safe and competent opioid prescribing for chronic pain.
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