Laila Khalid, MD, MPH

Dr. Khalid is an associate professor of medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center. She is board-certified in both internal medicine and addiction medicine. Dr. Khalid’s interests lie in the judicious use of long-term opioid therapy and treatment of substance use disorders. She has developed and co-leads an innovative teaching clinic embedded in primary care where residents get an experiential medical education in long-term opioid therapy and patients receive guideline-adherent care. She is an eConsultant for opioid management of ambulatory patients at Montefiore. As a buprenorphine site champion, she supervises integration of treatment of opioid use within primary care. She is also a member of several working groups to improve treatment of substance use disorders in the inpatient setting at Montefiore.