Laila Khalid, MD, MPH

Dr. Laila Khalid MD MPH is an Associate Professor of Internal Medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center. She received her medical degree from Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan. She completed her Internal Medicine residency and chief year at Mount Auburn Hospital, Cambridge followed by a General Medicine fellowship, Preventive Medicine residency and a Master’s in Public Health from Boston University. She joined Montefiore in 2014 to complete an additional year of General Medicine fellowship and stayed on as a clinician-educator with a focus in chronic pain and addiction medicine. She is board-certified in both internal and addiction medicine and her special interest lies in educating providers and treating patients with an overlap of chronic pain and addiction. She is the Director of the Buprenorphine Treatment Network, Associate Program Director of the Addiction Medicine fellowship and serves as faculty on the Addiction Consult Service. Regarding pain management, she codirects a resident-led chronic pain clinic embedded in primary care and is an eConsultant for opioid management of ambulatory patients at Montefiore. She also serves as core faculty in many educational interventions in pain and addiction for medical students, residents and addiction medicine fellows.