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Elizabeth M. Salisbury-Afshar, MD, MPH, FAAFP, DFASAM, FACPM

Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health
University of Wisconsin, Madison School of Medicine and Public Health
Madison, Wisconsin

Elizabeth Salisbury-Afshar, MD, MPH is an addition medicine, family medicine, and preventive medicine/public health physician and is a Professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison, Wisconsin. She is core faculty for the Addiction Medicine Fellowship at the University of Wisconsin and her clinical roles include addiction medicine consult service and serving as Medical Director of a low barrier walk-in clinic serving people who use substances. She is also the Program Director of the Preventive Medicine Residency at UW-Madison and Medical Director of Harm Reduction Services at the Wisconsin Division of Public Health.
Dr. Salisbury-Afshar's work focuses on expanding access to evidence based addiction treatment and harm reduction services. Past roles include serving as the Medical Director of Behavioral Health Systems Baltimore, as the Medical Director of Behavioral Health at the Chicago Department of Public Health, and as the Director of the Center for Addiction Research and Effective Solutions at the American Institutes for Research. She has over 15 years of experience practicing in medically underserved settings. Dr. Salisbury-Afshar lectures nationally on addiction medicine topics including the treatment of opioid use disorder, harm reduction, the intersection of addiction and the criminal legal system, and public health approaches to reduce overdose mortality.
She is actively involved in ASAM and currently serves as the Vice-Chair of the Medical Education Committee, Course Director of the ASAM-All Rise treatment courts courses, a member of the ASAM Conference Planning Committee, and the Chair of the Harm Reduction Special Interest Group.

She has no relevant financial disclosures.

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