Joji Suzuki, M.D.

Biography

Dr. Joji Suzuki is Director of the Division of Addiction Psychiatry and of Addictions Education in the Department of Psychiatry at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and an assistant professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He is a consultation-liaison psychiatrist in the Division of Medical Psychiatry at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, working with inpatients and outpatients. He serves as the Site Director for the Addiction Psychiatry Fellowships, Partners HealthCare and Boston University School of Medicine, and is active in medical student and resident education. He is a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers and the course director for the HMS/CME course on motivational interviewing.

His research is focused on integrating evidence-based addiction treatment initiated in general medical settings, and has received funding from the National Institute of Health, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Harvard Medical School. He was recently awarded a NIDA K23 Career Development Award to receive mentored training in conducting clinical trials, and to study the impact of recovery coaches on buprenorphine treatment.

Dr. Suzuki serves on a variety of committees, workgroups, and taskforces for Partners HealthCare, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, the Massachusetts Hospital Association, and the State of Massachusetts, to address the opioid epidemic. He has published over 60 peer-reviewed manuscripts and book chapters as first or coauthor.