Tiffany Lu, MD, MS

Tiffany Lu, MD, MS is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, New York. She is currently Associate Director of Addiction Services at New York City Health & Hospitals/Jacobi where she serves as medical director of the hospital's opioid treatment program and leads addiction care and education initiatives across the safety net health system.
Prior to joining Jacobi, Dr Lu was the Medical Director of Montefiore's Buprenorphine Treatment Network, where she led primary care-based opioid use disorder treatment across 7 community health centers. She also founded the Addiction Medicine "Bridge Clinic” to provide low-threshold care for people with substance use disorders. Dr. Lu was Principal Investigator of a federal grant to expand addiction education for medical students and residents and municipal contracts to integrate nurse care management for buprenorphine treatment.
Dr. Lu graduated from UCSF School of Medicine and completed her Internal Medicine Residency at Massachusetts General Hospital. She holds a Masters of Science in Clinical Research Methods from Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She is board certified in Internal Medicine and Addiction Medicine. In addition, Dr Lu is active with the American Society of Addiction Medicine as member of the Quality Improvement Council and Education Chair for the New York Chapter.