Richard Saitz MD, MPH, FACP, DFASAM

Dr. Saitz is a primary care clinician, educator, and researcher who trained at the former Boston City Hospital and the Harvard School of Public Health. A board-certified internist, Fellow of the American College of Physicians, and Director of the CARE Unit at Boston Medical Center, he conducts studies of alcohol- and drug-related problems, supported by the NIH. He is Past President of the Association for Medical Education and Research on Substance Abuse and Co-Chair of the Society of General Internal Medicine's Substance Abuse Interest Group. He has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed publications, is editor of a leading addiction medicine textbook, is certified in addiction medicine, and is a Fellow of the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM). Dr. Saitz wrote for Journal Watch for 13 years and was its Deputy Editor from 2001 to 2010; he is currently editor of the journal Evidence-based Medicine.