Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine

Overview

 

Rachel Wightman, MD is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Epidemiology at Alpert Medical School of Brown University. She is triple board-certified in medical toxicology, emergency medicine, and addiction medicine. She serves as the Director of Toxicology and Addiction Medicine for Brown Emergency Medicine and a Consultant Medical Director at the Rhode Island Department of Health.

Her research interests are emerging drug use patterns, cannabis use, and management of opioid use disorder.  Dr. Wightman is currently MPI on a NIDA study evaluating optimal buprenorphine maintenance dose for opioid use disorder in patients with fentanyl use (UG3/UH3DA056880). She was PI on a NIDA funded R21 investigating cannabis hyperemesis (R21DA055023) and MPI on a FORE Foundation grant combining toxiciogy and ethnography to evaluate street level changes in the drug supply. 

 

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