Full Name
Emily Behar PhD
Job Title
VP of Clinical Strategy
Company
Ophelia Health
Speaker Bio
Dr. Emily Behar, PhD, MS currently leads clinical strategy at Ophelia Health. Dr Behar received her PhD from the University of California, San Francisco, and an MS from the University of Pennsylvania. Dr Behar worked as a researcher for 10 years at the San Francisco Department of Public Health where she led epidemiological studies around the impacts of changing opioid prescribing practices on vulnerable populations, substance use epidemiology, and initiatives addressing substance use and opioid safety in clinical care. Prior to that she ran a threshold community service syringe exchange and overdose prevention program. Dr Behar is currently working to make opioid use disorder treatment accessible to all through low-barrier, evidence-based pharmacotherapy.
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