Ellen Edens

Dr. Edens is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine. She earned her MD from Johns Hopkins in 2002 and completed her psychiatry residency at Washington University in St. Louis, followed by advanced training and a VA-funded fellowship in Addiction Psychiatry at Yale. Joining Yale’s faculty in 2011, she is the Associate Director of the Addiction Psychiatry Residency and co-director of the VA Interprofessional Advanced Fellowship in Addiction Treatment. Her clinical and research focus includes co-occurring addiction and chronic pain, and improving access to evidence-based treatments for addiction. She also co-directs the VA Opioid Reassessment Clinic, which evaluates opioid use safety and efficacy for Veterans.