Associate Professor
UMass Chan Medical School
Stephen Martin, MD, EdM, FAAFP, FASAM has been Boulder Care's Medical Director for Research, Education, and Quality since 2019. Boulder provides telehealth-based care for substance use disorders grounded in harm reduction, low-threshold principles, and unconditional positive regard. Peer coaching and care navigation are core aspects of Boulder's treatment model.
Board certified in family medicine and addiction medicine, Steve is also an Associate Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health at the UMass Chan Medical School where he is residency faculty and co-directs the Rural Health Scholars Program. He co-directs the UMass Project ECHO for Opioid Use Disorder and is an affiliate faculty member of the Center for Primary Care at Harvard Medical School.
Steve began his medical career as a National Health Service Scholar in a rural community health center and a Federal Prison Medical Center. Since 2009, he has worked at the Barre Family Health Center in rural central Massachusetts where he is medical director for the Office-Based Addiction Treatment program.
Steve’s clinical and research interests include primary care, oral health, complex care, addiction medicine, chronic pain, diagnostic error, and health disparities. He is the lead author of publications in the BMJ, JAMA, Lancet, Annals of Internal Medicine, and the American Journal of Public Health.
