Juliette Perzhinsky, MD, MSc, FACP, moderator/lead presenter
Juliette Perzhinsky, MD, MSc, FACP is a board-certified general internal medicine and board-eligible addiction medicine physician with experience in implementing curricular changes across the continuum of medical training at Central Michigan University (CMU) College of Medicine, in collaboration with other health professions training programs. She is a graduate of Wayne State University School of Medicine and completed an Internal Medicine Residency at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. From 2015-2018, she served as an Associate Program Director of the CMU Internal Medicine Residency Training Program in Saginaw, MI and was charged with initiatives pertaining to patient safety and helping resident physicians increase self-efficacy with chronic pain management. She was previously selected as a Gold Humanism Scholar and was also the recipient of a Picker Gold GME Challenge Grant through The Arnold P Gold Foundation, leading important curricular changes in medical education. In her clinical practice, Dr. Perzhinsky has been delivering medication for addiction treatment (MAT) to patients with opioid use disorder after receiving the DEA X waiver to prescribe buprenorphine in 2019 and manages patients with complex chronic pain. Recently, she implemented a new integrative treatment program at the Ann Arbor VA Healthcare System – Flint Community-Based Outpatient Clinic – offering acupuncture and mindfulness meditation as part of an integrated chronic pain and MAT clinic model. She additionally invites third year medical students for clinical observation experiences during their MAT community experiences in mid-Michigan. She serves as the Project Director and co-instructor of the Drug Addiction Treatment Act (DATA) MAT waiver training to students and faculty at CMU as part of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) grant.
