Director, Division of Addiction Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Dr Suzuki is the Director of the Division of Addiction Psychiatry and Director of Addictions Education in the Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), and an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School (HMS). Dr Suzuki has been a consultation-liaison psychiatrist in the Division of Medical Psychiatry at BWH, and currently serves as the interim Director for the BWH Bridge Clinic as well as the Program Director for the BWH Addiction Medicine Fellowship. He has been very active in both medical student, resident and fellow education throughout his career. He is a member of Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers and is the course director for the HMS CME course on motivational interviewing. His research has received funding from National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), CDC, BWH, and HMS. In 2018 he was awarded a NIDA K23 Career Development Award to receive mentored training in conducting clinical trials, and to study the impact of recovery coaches on buprenorphine treatment outcomes. He is a sought-out speaker both locally and nationally, and currently serves on a variety of committees, workgroups, and taskforces for Mass General Brigham, BWH, HMS, and the State of Massachusetts to address the opioid epidemic.