Juliette Perzhinsky MD, MSc, FACP, FASAM

Dr. Perzhinsky graduated from Wayne State University School of Medicine and completed a residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. She is a board-certified internal medicine/addiction medicine physician and a medical acupuncturist with experience in implementing curricular changes across the continuum of medical training as an Associate Professor at CMU College of Medicine (CMU). She holds board certification in Addiction Medicine through the American Board of Preventive Medicine upon completion of the Practice Pathway in 2021. Dr. Perzhinsky was a Gold Humanism Scholar through The Arnold P. Gold Foundation and received a Picker Gold Challenge grant for the implementation of a pilot curriculum to address the opioid crisis. From 2018 to 2021, she was the principal investigator/project director on a SAMHSA PCSS – Universities grant overseeing medication-assisted treatment (MAT) training for students and faculty with ongoing teaching effort at CMU and collaboration with the MI CARES program through Michigan State University. She continues teaching and supervising medical students at CMU College of Medicine. In her part-time clinical practice, Dr. Perzhinsky treats patients with chronic pain and OUD and oversaw the implementation of the Integrative Treatment Program at the VA Flint Community-Based Outpatient Clinic in 2021 providing acupuncture and treatment for veterans with chronic pain and/or substance use disorder/OUD.  She does ad hoc work at Henry Ford Hospital’s Brighton Center for Recovery in the Chemical Dependency Unit.