Professor Of Medicine
Yale School of Medicine, Connecticut
Dr. Sandra Springer is Professor of Medicine in the Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases at the Yale School of Medicine. She is also an attending Infectious Disease physician at the VA Connecticut Healthcare System and the Director of the Infectious Disease Clinic at the Newington VA site. She received her BA from Harvard College and her MD from University of Massachusetts Medical School, followed by Internal Medicine Residency and Infectious Disease fellowship at Yale School of Medicine. She has significant clinical and research experience with persons with HIV and substance use disorders. She is the Director of her research program InSTRIDE (Integrating Substance Use Treatment Research with Infectious Disease for Everyone). She has focused on evaluating medication treatments for opioid and alcohol use disorders to improve substance use and ID/HIV treatment. She currently is a Principal Investigator for 6 NIH grants and 1 VA Cooperative Studies award. These studies include randomized controlled trials evaluating the impact of long-acting injectable buprenorphine and naltrexone among persons with OUD released from prison and jail; long-acting buprenorphine combined with a nurse care model integrated with infectious disease management among hospitalized patients with comorbid infections; long acting buprenorphine compared to sublingual buprenrophine among Veterans with OUD; as well as currently evaluating the use of Mobile health units and patient navigator linkage systems to provide medication treatment of OUD, PrEP, HIV and HCV treatment to persons who use drugs recently involved with the criminal justice system. Dr. Springer was also awarded an Avant Garde Award from NIDA to evaluate mobile pharmacies to provide medication treatment of OUD integrated with PrEP/ HIV treatment for people who use drugs wherever they live. She has presented her research numerous times both nationally and internationally and has published over 100 manuscripts and book chapters.
Saturday, April 15, 2023
1:15 PM – 2:30 PM