Sharon Levy, MD, MPH

Sharon Levy, MD, MPH is a Pediatrician, Addiction Medicine specialist, Chief of the Division of Addiction Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital and Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. Over the past 20 years she has evaluated and treated thousands of adolescents with substance use disorders, conducted research and written extensively on the topic. In 2016 she established the nation’s first accredited Pediatric Addiction Medicine Fellowship training program, and in 2023 she was appointed Chief of the first Division of Addiction Medicine at a pediatric medical center in the US. She has served as President of the Association for Multidisciplinary Education and Research in Substance Use and Addiction (AMERSA), Chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Substance Use and Prevention and a member of the board for the American College of Academic Addiction Medicine. She has expertise in the integration of substance use treatment services into pediatric primary care.