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Director of Harm Reduction Services
University of Massachusetts Medical School-Baystate Campus
Springfield, Massachusetts, United States
Bill Soares, MD, MS is board certified in Emergency Medicine and an Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Baystate in Springfield, Massachusetts. He attended Harvard Medical School and completed residency training at Alameda Health System in Oakland, CA. He joined Baystate in 2013 as an Emergency Medicine Research Fellow, earning a Master's Degree in Clinical and Translational Science at the Tufts Sackler School of Biomedical Science.
Bill is involved in multiple projects exploring clinical decision-making and implementation of opioid prescribing and treatment of opioid use disorder, including a NIDA K08 (1K08DA045933-01) study evaluating ED providers' decisions to prescribe discharge opioid medications to patients presenting with an acutely painful condition. Bill also serves as a site PI for the EMBED trial (Pragmatic trial of user-centered clinical decision support to implement EMergency department-initiated BuprenorphinE for opioid use Disorder). EMBED evaluates the impact of a clinical decision support tool in the electronic health record to increase the identification and treatment of emergency department patients with opioid use disorder. He hopes his research will inform emergency providers' decision-making process, leading to safer prescribing practices of opioids and treatment of opioid use disorder throughout the emergency department.