Associate Program Director of Pediatric Addiction Medicine Fellowship at Boston Children's Hospital
Boston Children's Hospital
Emily Nields, DO is a family medicine and pediatric addiction medicine physician at the Adolescent Substance Use and Addiction Program at Boston Children's Hospital where she also serves as the Associate Program Director of the Pediatric Addiction Medicine Fellowship. She is originally from Syracuse, NY where she attended LeMoyne College earning a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry. She graduated from Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine (LECOM) in 2009 earning a DO (Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine) degree. She completed her family medicine residency training at St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center in Syracuse, NY in 2012. Emily worked in the urgent care, primary care and adult addiction medicine settings until attending the Pediatric Addiction Medicine Fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital, which she completed in 2023. She now practices as an attending pediatric addiction medicine physician at the Adolescent Substance Use and Addiction Program at Boston Children's Hospital where she also serves as the Associate Program Director of the Pediatric Addiction Medicine Fellowship. Emily also runs the School Support Program for youth and families receiving care in the Division of Addiction Medicine.
She is a contributing editor to Alcohol, Other Drugs and Health: Current Evidence out of The Grayken Center for Addiction of Boston Medical Center. She has multiple publications on the topic of adolescent substance use. Her research interests include adolescent nicotine use trends and their relationship to nicotine products on the market in the United States. She has presented various topics related to adolescent substance use locally, regionally, nationally and internationally.
Emily currently lives in New Hampshire with her husband and three children. She still finds time to work in urgent care to maintain her primary care skills.
