Callan Fockele, MD, MS

University of Washington

Biography

Dr. Callan Fockele is an emergency physician with advanced training in population health research and addiction medicine. She works clinically in the Harborview Medical Center Emergency Department and Healthcare in Housing program. She is dedicated to broadening the addiction services provided to the most vulnerable patients seeking emergency care in our community.
Dr. Fockele is a member of Research with Expert Advisors on Drug Use (READU), a group of both academically trained and community-trained researchers with lived and living experience of substance use. Her community-engaged research focuses on improving outcomes for people who use drugs. She studies how contingency management and the community reinforcement approach can be integrated into permanent supportive housing for residents who use methamphetamine, and she is interested in the impact of sub-acute stabilization centers and field-based initiation of buprenorphine on opioid overdose survivors. She receives funding from the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the University of Washington Addictions, Drug & Alcohol Institute.