Associate Professor of Medicine
Montefiore Medical Center / Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Tiffany Lu, MD, MS is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Montefiore Health Systems and Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, New York. She is the Medical Director of Montefiore's Buprenorphine Treatment Network, where she leads an interdisciplinary team of primary care clinicians and treatment coordinators to deliver opioid use disorder treatment and overdose prevention services across 7 community health centers. Dr. Lu is also the principal investigator of a SAMHSA grant award to expand addiction medicine education at Montefiore-Einstein, which includes a new, structured clinical rotation in addiction medicine for medical residents. Additionally, she founded Montefiore's Addiction Medicine "Bridge" Clinic to provide interdisciplinary care for patients who are new to medications for addiction treatment. Dr Lu's research focus is on innovations and outcomes in primary care-based addiction treatment, particularly in low-income and racial minority communities disproportionally affected by overdose deaths.
Prior to joining Montefiore-Einstein, Dr. Lu graduated from University of California in San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine and completed her residency training in the Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency Program at Massachusetts General Hospital. She holds a Masters of Science in Clinical Research Methods from Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She is board certified in Internal Medicine and Addiction Medicine.
