  ## About

Kara Dillon, MD is a board-certified primary care physician and addiction medicine specialist at Boston Medical Center and an assistant professor at Boston University Chobanian &amp; Avedisian School of Medicine. After receiving her medical degree from Tufts University School of Medicine, she completed internal medicine-primary care residency and ambulatory chief residency at New York Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical Center, followed by ...  addiction medicine fellowship at BMC. In addition to primary care, she sees patients in the Office Based Addiction Treatment (OBAT) Program, Faster Paths to Treatment program, and attends on the inpatient addiction consult service. She also co-directs the Addiction and Health Track of the LEADS health equity course for first- and second-year medical students at BU. Her work and interests include incorporating harm reduction into general medical settings, medical education, and the intersection of primary care and addiction medicine.

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- ### Departments
    
    [Addiction Consult Service](/departments/addiction-treatment-programs/addiction-consult-service), [Adult Primary Care](/departments/adult-primary-care), [Faster Paths to Treatment](/departments/addiction-treatment-programs/faster-paths-treatment), [Office Based Addiction Treatment (OBAT)](/departments/adult-primary-care/office-based-addiction-treatment-obat)
- ### Specialties
    
    Addiction Medicine
- ### Pronouns
    
    She/Her
 
 

- ### Contact
    
     [617.414.5951](tel:617.414.5951)
- ### Primary Location
    
     [801 Massachusetts Avenue   
     Boston, MA 02118](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?q=801+Massachusetts+Avenue+%3Cbr%2F%3E+Boston%2C+MA+02118)
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- ### Administrative Title
    
    Assistant Professor of Medicine, Boston University Chobanian &amp; Avedisian School of Medicine
- ### Residency
    
    Internal Medicine-Primary Care, New York Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical Center
- ### Fellowship
    
    Addiction Medicine, Boston Medical Center
- ### Board Certifications
    
     Internal Medicine, Addiction Medicine
- ### Education
    
     Medical School: Tufts University School of Medicine, 2020