Jeffrey H. Samet

Dr. Samet is a graduate of Brandeis University and Baylor College of Medicine. He trained in Internal Medicine including chief residency at Boston City Hospital, Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), and in a research fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He has been a primary care physician in Boston since 1983. Dr. Samet is the John Noble Professor of General Internal Medicine at BUSM and Professor of Community Health Sciences at the Boston University School of Public Health. He has been Chief of General Internal Medicine at BUSM/Boston Medical Center since 2002. Dr. Samet has a longstanding commitment to educating physicians about substance use disorders leading NIDA R-25 programs funding the Research in Addiction Medicine Scholars (RAMS) Program and the Chief Resident Immersion Training (CRIT) Program in addiction medicine. He was President of AMERSA (1999-2001), a member of the Institute of Medicine Committee on "Addressing the Quality Chasm in Mental Health and Addictive Disorders" (2004-2006) and President of the American Board of Addiction Medicine (2012-2013). His research interests addressing HIV and substance use and the integration of addiction treatment into mainstream medical care have been supported by NIDA and NIAAA for over 2 decades.