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 Addiction Medicine Physician, Boston Medical Center *Lead - Lessons Learned from International Approaches to Opioid Use Disorder Treatment and Overdose Prevention*

*Lead - Publishing Addiction Research 101*

Alexander Y. Walley is an associate professor of medicine at the Boston University Chobanian &amp; Avedisian School of Medicine and director of the Boston Medical Center Addiction Medicine Fellowship program. His research focus is on the medical complications of substance use, specifically HIV and overdose, and he is an active investigator on clinical trials and cohort studies.

Dr. Walley provides primary care and office-based addiction treatment for patients with HIV at Boston Medical Center and methadone maintenance treatment at Health Care Resource Centers. He is the medical director for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health’s Opioid Overdose Prevention Pilot Program.