Kinna Thakarar DO, MPH

Dr. Kinna Thakarar is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Maine Medical Center/Tufts University School of Medicine in Portland, Maine. She is board-certified in internal medicine, infectious diseases, and addiction medicine and has a special interest in health services research related to the ID/ substance use disorder syndemic. Dr. Thakarar is currently an affiliated investigator at the Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation in Maine and is the PI of a pilot study supported by grant U54 GM115516 from the National Institutes of Health for the Northern New England Clinical and Translational Research network, titled "Rural Harm Reduction Access and Regional Trends Among People Hospitalized with Injection Drug Use-Associated Infections." She completed ID fellowship and additional addiction medicine training at Boston Medical Center.