Paul Joudrey, MD, MPH

CHAMPP Affiliate Faculty

Dr. Joudrey is an Assistant Professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He provides primary care, addiction medicine, and harm reduction services within outpatient and community settings. His research focuses on identifying factors impacting addiction treatment access and outcomes across urban and rural communities and developing, evaluating, and scaling interventions tailored to community needs to improve the health of people who use drugs. This includes research to expand access to patient centered methadone treatment for opioid use disorder.

He is Co-lead Investigator for NIDA CTN-131, a randomized pragmatic trial of office-based methadone versus buprenorphine. He received his undergraduate degree from Case Western Reserve University and his medical degree from New York University. Dr. Joudrey completed residency training at Montefiore Medical Center in the Primary Care Social Internal Medicine program and completed the National Clinician Scholars Program fellowship at Yale School of Medicine.

Dr. Joudrey grew up on his family’s apple orchard and farm market near Mansfield, Ohio. He and his sister, Anne Joudrey, co-founded North Central Ohio Harm Reduction to improve the health of people who use drugs in North Central Ohio.

Education & Training

BA (Biology), Case Western Reserve University, 2005
MEd (Secondary Science Education), City College of New York, 2009
MD, New York University, 2014
MPH (Global Public Health), New York University, 2014
MHS (Health Services Research), Yale School of Medicine, 2019
Internal Medicine Residency, Montefiore Medical Center Primary Care Social Internal Medicine Program, 2017
Fellowship, National Clinician Scholars Program, Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, 2019

Representative Publications

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