Edwin A. Salsitz

MD, DFASAM

Edwin A. Salsitz, MD, FASAM
Affiliation: Associate Clinical Professor
Mount Sinai Beth Israel

Dr. Edwin A. Salsitz has been an attending physician in the Mount Sinai Beth Israel, Division of Chemical Dependency, New York City since 1983 and is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He is the principal investigator of the Methadone Medical Maintenance (office-based methadone maintenance) research project. 

Dr. Salsitz is certified by the American Board of Addiction Medicine (ABAM), as well as by the Board of Internal Medicine and Pulmonary Disease. He has published and lectures frequently on addiction medicine topics. Dr. Salsitz is a course director for ASAM sponsored buprenorphine trainings and is a mentor in the PCSS-MAT mentoring program. He has co-chaired the ASAM Review Course, the ASAM Common Threads Course, the ASAM State of the Art course and is a reviewer for the Journal of Addiction Medicine and Drug and Alcohol Dependence. He is the chair of the ASAM REMS course on safe and effective prescribing of opioids. 

Dr. Salsitz was the co-chair of the ASAM CME committee and chair of the New York Society of Addiction Medicine CME and Education committee. Dr. Salsitz is a member of the medical advisory panel for the New York State Office of Alcohol and Substance Abuse Services.  Dr. Salsitz is the recipient of the 2014 ASAM Annual Award and the 2018 ASAM Annual Educator of the Year Award.

Adam Gordon

MD, MPH, FACP, CMRO, DFASAM

Adam Gordon, MD MPH FACP DFASAM CMRO is the Elbert F. and Marie Christensen Endowed Research Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry at the University of Utah School of Medicine and Chief of Addiction Medicine at the Salt Lake City VA Healthcare System. He is a board certified internal medicine (American Board of Internal Medicine) and addiction medicine physician (American Board of Addiction Medicine) and has received distinction in both fields as a Fellow in the American College of Physicians (FACP) and a Distinguished Fellow in the American Society of Addiction Medicine (DFASAM). Prior to moving to Salt Lake City in the Winter of 2017, he was a Professor of Medicine and Clinical and Translational Sciences and an Advisory Dean in Student Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He maintains an active internal medicine – addiction medicine practice and has been honored nationally for his community service and clinical activities.

He has a 17-year track record of conducting clinical, health services, and implementation scienceresearch on the quality, equity, and efficiency of health care for vulnerable populations, including patients with opioid use and other substance disorders and/or who are homeless. Major themes of his current research include the identification and implementation of evidence-based care for patients with addiction disorders and understanding the intersection of pain syndromes, opioid misuse, and engagement into opioid use disorder treatment. He is a prior VA Health Services Research and Development Service Career Development Awardee. His research has been funded by the NIH, VA, AHRQ, PCORI, SAMHSA, among others. He has authored over 150 peer reviewed scientific papers, several books and book chapters, and hundreds of peer reviewed scholarly abstracts, presentations, and other work. He has been recognized with several national research awards for his research, including the Young Investigator of the Year from the Association for Medical Education and Research on Substance Abuse (AMERSA).

His professional career has been noted for service to federal government, community initiatives, and mentoring. For example, he directs the Buprenorphine Initiative in the VA where he leads a national consult service to increase the implementation of medication treatment for opioid use disorder. He is the Director of the National Coordinating Center for the VA Office of Academic Affiliations Advanced Interdisciplinary Fellowship in Addiction Research and Treatment, where he coordinates educational activities for fellowship sites across the country. He serves as the Editor-in-Chief of Substance Abuse, the Board of Directors of the International Society of Addiction Journal Editors, and the Board of Directors of AMERSA. He has had leading positions with several organizations including American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM. Chair of Continuing Medical Education), Allegheny County Medical Society (President, Board of Directors), and Pennsylvania Medical Society (Board of Trustees).

As a senior, tenured, faculty member, he is passionate about training the next generation of clinicians and clinical researchers. Apart from this advising of hundreds of medical students in his prior capacity as an Advisory Dean at the University of Pittsburgh, he has educated, trained, or mentored over 50 post-graduate scholars to be leaders in scholarly activities involving addiction treatment. His mentees have received research career development awards, large VA/NIH research grants, and local and national young investigator of the year awards. As a testament to his teaching and mentoring expertise, he was named as one of the inaugural VA Health Services Research and Development (HSR&D) National Mentor Network (MNet) mentors. In addition, he has received of research mentoring awards including from the University of Pittsburgh, the AMA, and AMERSA (2013 W. Anderson Spickard, Jr. Excellence in Mentorship Award).

Adam lives with his wife, Margaret Conroy, MD MPH and children Lillian, Neil, and Martha in Salt Lake City, Utah. He enjoys gardening and tennis.