Clinical Assistant Professor, Division of Social Medicine
Paxton Bach MD, MSc, ABIM, FRCPC, FASAM is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of British Columbia and a general internist and addiction medicine physician at St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver, BC. He also serves as the Co-Medical Director for the British Columbia Centre on Substance Use, and is the Director of the BCCSU Clinical Addiction Medicine Fellowship Program.
In addition to his clinical and educational roles, Dr. Bach holds a Health Professional-Investigator Award from Michael Smith Health Research BC, the BC Centre on Substance Use, and the St. Paul’s Foundation, with a research interest focusing on the epidemiology and treatment of opioid and stimulant use disorders. He is the site PI for the British Columbia site of the ASCME trial (Addition of high dose Stimulant and engagement-focused Contingency management, alone and in combination, to treatment-as-usual for the management of Methamphetamine use disorder), is a clinical research mentor for the International Collaborative Addiction Medicine Research Fellowship, and is involved in a number of ongoing research collaborations within Canada and the United States.
Dr. Bach is certified as a specialist in General Internal Medicine through the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and an Addiction Medicine specialist through the International Society of Addiction Medicine and the American Board of Preventative Medicine.