Jeffrey Samet, MD, is the John Noble, MD Professor in General Internal Medicine and Professor of Public Health at Boston University and a practicing primary care physician at Boston Medical Center, with expertise treating substance use disorders in general healthcare settings and researching the impact of substance use on HIV infection. He is Vice Chair for Public Health in the Department of Medicine. He is Editor of the journal Addiction Science & Clinical Practice. He is Principal Investigator of the NIAAA Alcohol-HIV Consortium, URBAN ARCH, and two NIDA R25 grants to advance physician addiction education and research: the Chief Residents Immersion Training (CRIT) program and the Research in Addiction Medicine Scholars (RAMS) program advancing research careers for addiction subspecialty physicians. His international HIV work has occurred predominantly in Russia but also in India, Uganda, Ukraine and Vietnam.