Leadership

Dr. Sullivan completed his medical school education at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, NY. After, he entered and finished a residency in Emergency Medicine at the same hospital.  Dr. Sullivan then completed a medical toxicology fellowship at the SUNY Upstate Poison Control Center and SUNY Upstate Emergency Department. Dr. Sullivan is also board certified in Addiction Medicine. Dr. Sullivan is currently the Executive Medical Director at Helio Health in Central New York, a comprehensive behavioral health treatment system. Dr. Sullivan also holds a faculty appointment at the SUNY Upstate Emergency Medicine department and Poison Control Center as the Medical Toxicology fellowship director. In addition, Dr. Sullivan serves as an Addiction Medicine expert/liaison at SUNY Upstate for inpatient addiction care as well as the Emergency Medicine Opioid Bridge Clinic.

Dr. Sullivan has co-authored several publications related to overdose and addiction, including “Cardiac conduction disturbance after loperamide abuse”, “Synthetic Cannabinoid Withdrawal”, “Baclofen overdose mimicking brain death”, “A randomized usability assessment of simulated naloxone administration by community members,” and “Bridge clinic buprenorphine program decreases emergency department visits”. Dr. Sullivan is currently a member of the Medical Advisory Panel to NY-OASAS (Office of Addiction Services and Support), the NY-DOH buprenorphine work group, as well as the Treasurer and Board Member of NYSAM (New York Society of Addiction Medicine).

Dr. Torres-Lockhart is board certified in addiction medicine and internal medicine and credentialed as an HIV specialist by the AAHIVM. She is founding director of the Addiction Consult Service at Montefiore’s Weiler Hospital and co-director of the Addiction Medicine rotation for medical trainees. She is focused on integrating addiction medicine into medical education and leads the development and implementation of health system interventions to improve substance use disorder (SUD) care in acute care settings and transitions of care to post-acute and ambulatory care settings.

Dr. Mullins is board-certified in Internal Medicine and credentialed as an HIV specialist through the AAHIVM. She is the Assistant Director of Addiction Medicine at the Family Health Centers, a network of FQHCs within the NYU system located in Brooklyn. She focuses on improving the treatment of addiction within primary care and directs the FHC Buprenorphine Treatment Network. As a clinician educator with the Family Health Centers at NYU Langone Internal Medicine Residency program, she is developing and delivering the residency addiction curriculum.

Dr. Neha Pawar has specialized in the treatment of Addiction and Pain Medicine. She completed her residency in psychiatry and fellowships ​in Pain Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology and Addiction Medicine /Psychiatry, and Department of Psychiatry at the University of Rochester Medical Center. She joined as a senior instructor at Strong memorial hospital in Oct 2021 and works at Cancer Pain Center at Wilmot Cancer Center and Chemical dependency outpatient clinic, Strong Recovery.

Mashal Khan, M.D., is a Xi’an-Jiaotong University School of Medicine graduate and trained at Maimonides Medical Center, where he served as Chief Resident. Following his residency training, he completed a Fellowship in Addiction Psychiatry at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Mount Sinai St. Luke’s-West. He is board-certified in general and addiction psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. Dr. Khan is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry Weill Cornell Medicine, where he works with the Liver Transplant Team and also serves as the Associate Program Director for the Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship. Dr. Khan’s most recent publication was a book titled “Technology-Assisted Interventions for Substance Use Disorders” for which he served as an editor. Prior to this, he authored a chapter titled, “Steroids, Dissociatives, Club Drugs, Inhalants, and Hallucinogens” in a book titled “Absolute Addiction Psychiatry Review”.

Betty Lee currently works on a mobile medical unit providing primary care to street homeless and unstably house individuals. She provides low threshold buprenorphine treatment and focuses on harm reduction. Her work in substance use began as an RN when she worked on a street outreach MAT program in the South Bronx. She has also worked on ACT teams in East Harlem and Brooklyn, where she learned a lot about the challenges of dual diagnoses psych and substance use.