Benjamin Bearnot, MD
After completing combined fellowships in community health leadership and addiction medicine, Dr. Benjamin Bearnot is now a research faculty member in the Division of General Internal Medicine and the Mongan Institute in the Department of Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School. His clinical research and implementation science training focuses on addressing the devastating substance use disorder and drug overdose epidemics facing New England and the United States. Dr. Bearnot is supported by a career development award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to study the serious bacterial complications of opioid use disorder to develop and evaluate new treatment strategies for individuals with infectious complications of injection drug use.