Associate Professor
University of California San Diego
Benjamin Han, MD MPH, is a geriatrician, addiction medicine physician, and clinician-researcher in the Division of Geriatrics, Gerontology, and Palliative Care in the Department of Medicine at UC San Diego. He is a primary care physician at the Jennifer Moreno Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, where he also co-leads the syringe service program (SSP-Access to Care Program) that integrates harm reduction interventions with chronic disease management and low-barrier substance use disorder treatment. He is also a Supporting Editor for the Journal of Addiction Medicine. His research focuses on the intersection of chronic medical disease and substance use, with a career goal to improve the health of older adults with substance use disorders.
