Addiction Medicine and Developmental Pediatrician
Boston Children's Hospital
Brookline, Massachusetts
Dr. Modar "Mo" Sukkarieh completed his General Pediatrics training at White Memorial Hospital in Los Angeles in 2010. He then worked as a general inpateint and ouutpatient pediatrician in CA and MA for 6 years before resuming his training through joining the Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics fellowship training at Tufts Medical Center in Boston, with a focus on newborn behavior and attachement in the setting of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome. After almost two years of DBP training and 4 years of working in varied Developmental Behavioral pediatrics and pediatrics mental health settings, Dr. Sukkarieh recognized first hand the impacts and increasing rates of substance use disorders amongst youth during the Covid period and decided to further train in the field. This led him to join the Pediatric Addiction Medicine fellowship training program at Boston Children's Hospital in 2022. He then joined their faculty after graduating in 2023 and continues to be part of their team. His clinical interests are: neurobiology of addicion in the developing brain, the intersection of addiction and neurodevelopmental disorders, and newborn-maternal attachement in the setting of substance use disorders. He has ongoing research on the international prevalence and trends of Opioid Overdose cases.
Current Challenges in Adolescent Addiction Care. Vision for the Future.
Sunday, April 27, 2025
10:15 AM – 11:30 AM
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