Joji Suzuki, MD

Dr. Joji Suzuki, MD, is the director of the Division of Addiction Psychiatry and director of Addictions Education in the Department of Psychiatry at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He completed his undergraduate and medical school at Boston University, general psychiatry residency at Maine Medical Center, and an addiction psychiatry fellowship at Boston University School of Medicine.

Dr. Suzuki is a consultation-liaison psychiatrist in the Division of Medical Psychiatry at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, working with both inpatients and outpatients focusing on providing evidenced-based addiction treatment in general medical settings. Dr. Suzuki serves as the site director for the Addiction Psychiatry Fellowships for both Partners and Boston University School of Medicine, and is very active in medical student and resident education. He is the director of the Addiction and Their Treatment course for the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry, directs a Harvard Medical School CME course on motivational interviewing, and is a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers.

Dr. Suzuki conducts clinical and educational research focused on studying novel approaches to addiction treatment as well as integrating addiction treatment into general medical settings. His research is focused on applying consultation-liaison approaches to addiction psychiatry, such as implementation of collaborative models of care of addiction treatment in the general hospital, primary care, and specialty care settings. His research has received funding from NIH, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Harvard Medical School. He currently serves on a variety of committees, workgroups, and taskforces for Partners HealthCare, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Massachusetts Hospital Association, and the state of Massachusetts to address the opioid epidemic. He has published over 40 peer-reviewed manuscripts and book chapters