Jeanette Tetrault, MD, FACP, FASAM
Professor of Medicine (General Medicine)Cards
About
Titles
Professor of Medicine (General Medicine)
Program Director, Addiction Medicine Fellowship, Internal Medicine; Associate Director for Education and Training, Program in Addiction Medicine, Internal Medicine; Vice-chief for Education, General Internal Medicine; Professor, Chronic Disease Epidemiology; Head of Advisory College, Orange College, Office of Student Affairs
Biography
Dr. Tetrault is a Professor of Medicine and Public Health, Vice-chief for Education for the Section of General Internal Medicine, Associate Director for the Program in Addiction Medicine, and Program Director for Addiction Medicine Fellowship at Yale School of Medicine. Her scholarly work focuses on care of patients with addiction and the medical conditions associated with substance use, mainly HIV and Hepatitis C. Dr. Tetrault is a staff physician at the Central Medical Unit of the APT Foundation – a multispecialty addiction treatment center. She has been recognized for her teaching accomplishments being awarded the New England Regional Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM) Clinician Educator of the Year Award in 2013, The W. Anderson Spickard Award for Excellence in Mentorship by the Association of Multidisciplinary Education and Research in Substance use and Addiction (AMSERSA) in 2018, the American Society of Addiction Medicine Training Directors Award in 2021, and the John P. McGovern Aware. She serves as president of the American College of Academic Addiction Medicine and is a past-president of the New England Region of SGIM. In 2017, she was recognized as a Macy Foundation Faculty Scholar.
Appointments
General Internal Medicine
ProfessorPrimaryChronic Disease Epidemiology
ProfessorSecondary
Other Departments & Organizations
- Addiction Medicine Fellowship Program
- Chronic Disease Epidemiology
- General Internal Medicine
- Internal Medicine
- Program in Addiction Medicine
- SBIRT Training in Yale Residency Programs
- Yale Medicine
- Yale School of Public Health
- Yale Ventures
- Yale-Drug use, Addiction, and HIV prevention Research Scholars (DAHRS)
- Yale-UPR Integrated HIV Basic and Clinical Sciences Initiative
Education & Training
- Ambulatory Care Fellow
- West Haven VA Hospital (2007)
- Chief Resident
- Yale School of Medicine (2005)
- Medical Intern and Resident
- Yale School of Medicine (2004)
- MD
- Boston University School of Medicine (2001)
- BA
- Boston University, Biology (1997)
Research
Overview
Dr. Tetrault's interest involves the medical co-morbidities associated with addictive disorders. Much of her scholarly work falls into two general areas: 1) improving quality care of patients with substance use and comorbid chronic disease, and 2) addiction curriculum design and dissemination.
In the early part of her career, her work focused on understanding the prevalence of non-medical use of prescription opioids in the general population. She also developed a unique interest in the health effects of inhaled cannabis.
More recently, her work has focused on improving quality care delivery for patients with addiction and other chronic medical diseases. She has published a HRSA-funded randomized clinical trial assessing the level of counseling to accompany buprenorphine/naloxone treatment for HIV-infected opioid-dependent patients in the Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment; an NIMH-Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS-funded project assessing the association between risk behaviors and antiretroviral resistance in HIV-infected patients receiving opioid agonist treatment in the Journal of Addiction Medicine; and a secondary analysis of the NIAAA-funded Veterans Aging Cohort Study (VACS) looking at the hepatic safety and antiretroviral effectiveness in HIV-infected patients receiving naltrexone in Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research. The design of the VACS study led to a similar analysis looking at the hepatic safety of buprenorphine in both HIV-infected and uninfected patients which was published in The Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment. She has collaborated on numerous NIDA- and NHLBI-funded projects with colleagues at Yale.
The other main area of focus is in the dissemination of curricular innovations in the field of addiction. She published the design and implementation of a novel multi-specialty Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment curriculum in Substance Abuse and served as senior author on a paper describing the unique educational intervention integrated within our Addiction Recovery Clinic. She has collaborated with colleagues at Yale and other institutions on several SAMHSA and HRSA funded projects to develop curricula and workforce development strategies to address addiction. She has also focused on interprofessional education and published two scoping reviews, one focusing on undergraduate medical education and the other on interprofessional curricula in addiction medicine, both published in Academic Medicine.
Academic Achievements and Community Involvement
Clinical Care
Overview
Jeanette M. Tetrault, MD, is an attending physician at Yale New Haven Hospital who also provides primary care and substance use disorder treatment at the central medical unit of the APT Foundation in New Haven, a multi-specialty addiction treatment facility that is affiliated with Yale New Haven Hospital. She focuses on patients with addiction and medical issues associated with substance use, including HIV and Hepatitis C
“I am dedicated to caring for patients from underserved communities,” says Dr. Tetrault, an associate professor of medicine (general medicine) at Yale School of Medicine. “Our nation currently faces a health care crisis related to opioid addiction, and I am pleased to provide nonjudgmental, evidence-based treatment to patients and families struggling with this chronic medical condition.”
As a researcher, Dr. Tetrault has published widely in the field of Addiction Medicine, including epidemiologic investigation, investigation of unique delivery care models, examination of safety of addiction pharmacotherapies, and addiction medicine curriculum design, evaluation, and dissemination.
Clinical Specialties
Fact Sheets
Opioid Use Disorder
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Board Certifications
Addiction Medicine
- Certification Organization
- AB of Preventive Medicine
- Original Certification Date
- 2018
Yale Medicine News
Links & Media
News
- January 19, 2024
Dr. Jeanette Tetrault Wins Award for Excellence in Addiction Medicine Education
- October 06, 2023
Addiction Medicine Fellowship Training at Yale Expands To Advanced Practice Providers
- June 08, 2023
Faculty Network Spotlight: Yale Global Addictions Network
- November 21, 2022
The Curbsiders Addiction Medicine Podcast hosted by Yale Internal Medicine Faculty