Addiction Medicine Physician
The Association for Public Health, Israel
Stacy Shoshan, M.D., Ph.D., is a double boarded internal medicine and addiction medicine physician in Israel and the United States. Dr. Shoshan is originally from the Los Angeles area. She graduated from UCLA with a B.S. in biochemistry with College Honors and Cum Laude, the American Medical School Program at Tel Aviv University with a M.D. and from the Technion-Israeli Institute of Technology with a Ph.D. in biology. She was a surgery resident for 2 years in Los Angeles, worked for 3 years in the hematology and bone marrow transplant ward at Rambam Medical Center in Haifa, and ultimately completed internal medicine residency at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Oakland, California. She continued working as an internal medicine physician at Kaiser Permanente Walnut Creek in Northern California before moving to Florida where she specialized in addiction medicine. In Florida, she was the Medical Director on an opioid treatment program as well as the Medical Team Supervising Physician at a residential addiction treatment center. Since returning to Israel in 2018, Dr. Shoshan has worked for the Israeli Ministry of Health Department for the Treatment of Substance Abuse as a Regional Supervisor and The Association for Public Health as National Director for Addiction Treatment Programs. She currently works as an addiction medicine specialist, teaches 1st- 3rd year American Medical Students at Tel Aviv University, and supervises 4th year students doing addiction medicine electives. Since 2018, Dr. Shoshan has given more than 70 lectures on the disease of addiction to a variety of audiences from middle school and high school students, to medical students, residents, attending physicians, healthcare workers and community members at large.
