E. Jennifer Edelman, MD, MHS, AAHIVS

E. Jennifer Edelman, MD, MHS is a Professor of Medicine (General Internal Medicine) and Public Health (Social and Behavioral Sciences) at Yale University. Certified as an internist, HIV specialist, and in Addiction Medicine, she provides clinical care at the Yale New Haven Hospital Center for Infectious Disease treating individuals with HIV and substance use disorders. She is Director of the Yale Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS Clinical and Health Services Research Core, co-Director of Education at the Yale Center for Clinical Investigation, and Associate Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)-funded Research in Addiction Medicine Scholars (RAMS) Program. Funded by the National Institutes of Health, her research over the past 15+ years has focused on understanding and addressing harms of substance use among individuals with and at substantial risk for HIV. She has experience applying a range of methodologies – including observational, interventional and implementation science-based approaches – and collaborating with diverse clinical, community, and public health-based partners. She enjoys mentoring trainees and junior faculty.