Professor, Division of Social Medicine
Dr. Evan Wood, MD, PhD, FASAM, FRCPC, ABAM Diplomat is an addiction medicine physician and clinician scientist at UBC. Dr. Wood is a general internal medicine specialist and diplomate of the American Board of Addiction Medicine whose clinical, research and educational focus has been on improving systems of care for patients with alcohol and other substance use disorder. He has been the Physician Program Director for Addiction Services at Providence Health Care, Medical Director for Addiction Services at Vancouver Coastal Health. He was the Founding Director of the St. Paul’s Hospital Goldcorp Fellowship in Addiction Medicine and the founding Director of the Canada Addiction Medicine Research Fellowship, a US National Institute on Drug Abuse funded research-training program for physicians with a background in addiction medicine based out of UBC and St. Paul’s Hospital.
Dr. Wood’s current clinical and research focus is in the area of evidence-based treatment of alcohol use disorders and protecting patients against unsafe care. At UBC he is actively involved in teaching medical students, residents and fellows about both general internal medicine and evidence-based substance use care.