Biography

Dr Joji Suzuki is the founding Director of the Division of Addiction Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), and an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He completed his medical training at Boston University School of Medicine, general psychiatry residency at Maine Medical Center, and addiction psychiatry fellowship at Boston Medical Center. He is board certified in Psychiatry, Addiction Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine, and practices as an inpatient addiction consultant at BWH. He has successfully launched numerous treatment programs over the course of his career, including the comprehensive outpatient dual diagnosis addiction clinic at Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital, and the low-barrier, low-threshold, harm-reduction Dushku Palandjian Bridge Clinic at BWH. He is the inaugural Program Director of the BWH Addiction Medicine Fellowship program. He has received NIH funding continuously since 2017 to conduct cutting-edge clinical research. He is now a principal investigator on multiple NIH-funded clinical trials to evaluate treatments targeting opioid and alcohol use disorders, with a particular emphasis on patients in general hospital settings. Areas of research focus include alcohol biomarkers, buprenorphine treatment, GLP-1 receptor agonists, and psychedelic-assisted psychotherapies.

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