William E. Soares, III, MD, MS

Bill Soares, MD, MS is board certified in Emergency and Addiction Medicine and an Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Baystate in Springfield, Massachusetts. He attended Harvard Medical School and completed residency training at Alameda Health System in Oakland, CA. He joined Baystate in 2013 as an Emergency Medicine Research Fellow, earning a Master's Degree in Clinical and Translational Science at the Tufts Sackler School of Biomedical Science.

Bill is involved in multiple projects exploring clinical decision-making and implementation of opioid prescribing and treatment of opioid use disorder. He completed a NIDA K08 evaluating the impact of state legislation on opioid prescribing in the emergency department. Currently, he is co-PI on a NIDA R21/33 study exploring the use of virtual relatity in the ED to address bias experienced by patients with opioid use disorder. He hopes his research will improve access to treatment options for patients with substance use disorder who present to the emergency department.