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Tiffany Lu, M.D., M.S.

Tiffany Lu

Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Associate Professor, Department of Medicine (General Internal Medicine)

Area of Research: Opioid use disorder treatment, clinical program implementation and evaluation, addiction medicine education and workforce development

Contact Information

718.918.4875tiffanylumd@gmail.com

Jacobi Medical Center
1400 Pelham Parkway South
Building 1, Room 9S8
Bronx, NY 10461

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Tiffany Lu, MD, MS is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, New York. She is currently Associate Director of Addiction Services at New York City Health & Hospitals/Jacobi where she is developing the hospital's first opioid treatment program as well as clinical care and education initiatives in the midst of an evolving overdose risk and regulatory landscape.

Prior to joining Jacobi, Dr Lu was the founding Medical Director of Montefiore's Buprenorphine Treatment Network, which delivered primary care-based opioid use disorder treatment across 7 community health centers and featured a specialty Addiction Medicine "Bridge" Clinic that provided low-threshold care for people with substance use disorders. Dr. Lu was principal investigator of several clinical service delivery and education grants, including a SAMHSA grant award to expand addiction medicine education for medical students and residents at Einstein. 

Dr. Lu graduated from the University of California in San Francisco School of Medicine and the Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency Program at Massachusetts General Hospital. She holds a Masters of Science in Clinical Research Methods from Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She is board certified in Internal Medicine and Addiction Medicine.

Selected Publications

Original Research

 

Singh-Tan S, Torres-Lockhart K, Jakubowski A, Lu T, Starrels J, De Lima P, Arnsten J, Nahvi S, Southern W. Addiction consult service and inpatient outcomes among patients with alcohol use disorder. J Gen Intern Med. 2023 Apr 26:1–8. doi: 10.1007/s11606-023-08202-7. PMID: 37100986; PMCID: PMC10132408.

 

Jakubowski A, Singh-Tan S, Torres-Lockhart K, Nahvi S, Stein M, Lu T. Hospital-based clinicians lack knowledge and comfort in initiating medications for opioid use disorder: opportunities for training innovation. Addict Sci Clin Pract. 2023 May 18;18(1):31. doi: 10.1186/s13722-023-00386-x. PMID: 37198707; PMCID: PMC10193697.

 

Khalid L, Cunningham CO, Deng Y, Masyukova M,...Lu T. Cascade of care for office-based buprenorphine treatment in Bronx community clinics. J Subst Abuse Treat. 2022 Aug;139:108778. doi: 10.1016/j.jsat.2022.108778. Epub 2022 Apr 9. PMID: 35428524.

 

Cunningham CO, Khalid L, Deng Y,…Lu T. A comparison of office-based buprenorphine treatment outcomes in Bronx community clinics before versus during the COVID-19 pandemic. J Subst Abuse Treat. 2022 Apr;135:108631. doi: 10.1016/j.jsat.2021.108641. Epub 2021 Oct 27. PMID: 34863608

 

Jakubowski A, Lu T, Direnno F, Jadow B, Giovanniello A, Cunningham CO, Fox AD. Same-day vs. delayed buprenorphine prescribing and patient retention in an office-based buprenorphine treatment program. J Subst Abuse Treat. 2020 Dec;119:108140. doi: 10.1016/j.jsat.2020.108140. PMID: 33138925.

 

Clinical Guidelines, Reviews, and Chapters

 

Lu T. Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder. 2023 Sept 12. In: New York State Department of Health AIDS Institute – Clinical Guidelines Program. Available from: https://www.hivguidelines.org/opioid-use-disorder

 

Torres-Lockhart KE, Lu T, Weimer MB, Stein MR, and Cunningham CO. Clinical management of opioid withdrawal. Addiction. 2022 Sept; 117(9):2540-2550. doi: 10.1111/add.15818. Epub 2022 Feb 22. PMID: 35112746

 

Lu T, Stein M, and Fox AD. Primary care management of adults with opioid use disorder. In: UpToDate, Post TW (Ed). UpToDate, Waltham, MA; 2021.

 

Slawek D, Lu T, Hayes B, and Fox AD. Caring for patients with opioid use disorder – what clinicians should know about comorbid medical conditions. Psych Res Clin Pract 2019;1:16-26. doi: 10.1176/appi.prcp.20180005

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In the News

  • Q&A: How Can PCPs Properly Manage Patients With Opioid Use Disorder?

    Healio - January 26, 2022

    Tiffany Lu, M.D., M.S., describes her grant that will fund the expansion of addiction medicine and training programs for medical students and residents at Einstein and Montefiore. The curriculum will focus on the diagnosis and care for people with opioid use disorder, including guidance about medications for addiction treatment, particularly buprenorphine. Dr. Lu is assistant professor of medicine at Einstein and director of the Montefiore Buprenorphine Treatment Network.

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