Full Name
Yngvild Olsen MD, MPH
Job Title
Center Director CSAT
Company
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
Speaker Bio
Dr. Yngvild Olsen serves as the Director for the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment. After graduating from Harvard Medical School, she completed residency training in internal medicine and served as primary care chief resident at Boston Medical Center. She completed a Fellowship in General Internal Medicine at Johns Hopkins, during which time she received a master's in public health degree from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Olsen has written and lectured extensively on opioid use disorder and its treatments, the stigma of addiction, the integration of behavioral health and medical care, and clinical and policy solutions to the overdose epidemic. She draws inspiration from the opportunity to provide care for people with substance use disorders as an addiction medicine specialist and general internist.