Associate Professor/Senior Medical Director
Mass General Brigham
Boston, Massachusetts
Sarah E. Wakeman, MD is the Medical Director for the Mass General Hospital Program for Substance Use & Addiction Services, program director of the Mass General Addiction Medicine fellowship, Senior Medical Director for Substance Use Disorder at Mass General Brigham, and an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She received her A.B. from Brown University and her M.D. from Brown Medical School. She completed residency training in internal medicine and served as Chief Medical Resident at Mass General Hospital. She is a diplomate and fellow of the American Board of Addiction Medicine and board certified in Addiction Medicine by the American Board of Preventive Medicine. She served on Massachusetts' Governor Baker’s Opioid Addiction Working Group. Nationally, she serves on the American Society of Addiction Medicine Ethics Committee.
Clinically she provides specialty addiction and general medical care in the inpatient and outpatient setting at Mass General Hospital and the Mass General Charlestown Health Center. Her research interests include evaluating models for integrated substance use disorder treatment in general medical settings, low threshold treatment models, recovery coaching, physician attitudes and practice related to substance use disorder, and screening for substance use in primary care.
Annual Review of Addiction Medicine: Highest Impact Publications from 2024-2025
Friday, April 25, 2025
10:30 AM – 11:45 AM
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General Session - The Science of GLP-1 Receptor Agonists: A Rising Tide in Addiction Treatment
Friday, April 25, 2025
4:30 PM – 5:45 PM
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