Posts by Saman

Orrin D. Ware, PhD, MPH, MSW is an Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Social Work. Dr. Ware has formal graduate and postdoctoral training in behavioral pharmacology, field epidemiology, public health, and social work. He has real-world experience (1) as a clinical social worker in a specialized crisis…

Milan F. Satcher, MD, MPH is an Assistant Professor of Community and Family Medicine and a Health Equity Faculty Fellow at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice at Geisel Medical School at Dartmouth College. In addition, she is a LEAD scholar at University of California, San Francisco. She is a board-certified family…

Noa Krawczyk, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Population Health at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine and Associate Director of the NYU Langone Center for Opioid Epidemiology and Policy. Her research focuses on studying ways to address barriers to evidence-based treatment for opioid use disorder at the individual, program, and policy…

Howard Kim, MD, MS is an emergency medicine and addiction medicine physician at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. He completed his emergency medicine residency at Denver Health followed by an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality T32 postdoctoral fellowship in health services and outcomes research and K12 career development award in patient-centered intervention…

Ally Dir, PhD, HSPP is an Assistant Professor and licensed clinical psychologist in the Department of Psychiatry at Indiana University School of Medicine. Dr. Dir maintains both an active clinical practice providing care to adults and adolescents with substance use disorders and a productive program of research. Her research is broadly focused on leveraging implementation…

Damian Chase-Begay, PhD, MS (Mandan/Arikara) is an Associate Research Professor of Social Epidemiology at the University of Montana. In July 2024, he received a career development award (K01) in implementation science from NIDA to rigorously adapt an evidence-based substance abuse prevention intervention for urban Indigenous young adults in Montana to incorporate traditional ceremonial practices (TCPs).…