Cooper Addiction Medicine Fellowship Faculty

Christopher Milburn, MD is a psychiatrist practicing addiction medicine. He completed his undergraduate medical education at Jefferson Medical College, now the Sidney Kimmel Medical College, and his psychiatry residency at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital at Jefferson Health. He always had a strong interest in addiction medicine and after completing his residency, worked as an attending at Jefferson Health in their methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) clinic. While at Jefferson, he was also the director of their psychiatric inpatient unit which worked closely with the obstetrics department to specialize in the treatment and management of pregnant patients with co-occurring substance use disorder (SUD) and mental health diagnoses.

Following his work at Jefferson Health, Dr. Milburn worked at Christiana Hospital, where he launched an outpatient buprenorphine program, also with focus on the management of opioid use disorder (OUD) in pregnant patients. Further he participated in the development of an opioid treatment protocol for patients with co-occurring disorders. Following his time at Christiana Hospital, he worked at Crozer-Chester Medical Center, expanding their outpatient buprenorphine program, assisting in the opening of a new inpatient detoxification and rehab unit as well as their MMT program. Dr. Milburn is now Program Director for the Cooper University Health Care Addiction Medicine Fellowship, an Attending Physician at the Cooper University Health Care Center for Healing, and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University (CMSRU).

Gerard Carroll, MD, is the Program Director of the Emergency Medical Services Fellowship at Cooper University Hospital and Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Cooper Medical School of Rowan University. He graduated from Brandeis University with a Bachelor of Arts with Honors in History. As an undergraduate Dr. Carroll became passionate about Emergency Medical Services, and following graduation became certified as a Paramedic . He worked for nearly a decade in the New York City 911 system and was recognized for his service on the morning of the 9-11 attacks. He then earned his medical degree from Dartmouth Medical School where he was inducted into the Gold Humanism Honor Society. He competed Emergency Medicine Residency at Temple University Hospital and completed a fellowship in Emergency Medical Services at Cooper University Hospital. He is dual board certified in Emergency Medicine and Emergency Medical Services.

Dr. Carroll thrives on prehospital and disaster medicine and is passionate about resident, fellow, and especially about prehospital provider education. He was integral in the creation of our EMS fellowship and is excited to be the second Program Director. Dr. Carroll believes in the apprenticeship model of medical education and created Cooper’s prehospital physician response program to bring both physician level care to patients and to move the bedside teaching model to the prehospital arena. 

Dr. Carroll loves the practice of academic Emergency Medicine and Emergency Medical Services, and is not satisfied with the status quo. He believes strongly that EMS is a practice of medicine and as such needs to constantly be refocused on patient outcomes while optimizing its place in the healthcare system. He is a champion of nontraditional transport models, and helped spearhead the movement of addiction medicine into the field by educating paramedics about Opioid Use Disorder and training them to rescue patients in withdrawal with Medication Assisted Therapy using buprenorphine. Dr. Carroll loves the varied practice environments of EM and EMS making academic, rural, prehospital, austere disaster deployment, and even cruise ship medicine a part of his medical practice.

Rachel Ehrman-Dupre, MD was a fellow in the inaugural 2020 Cooper Addiction Medicine Fellowship. Prior to her fellowship training, she completed residency training in family and community medicine at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital at Jefferson Health.

During residency training, she focused on the care of vulnerable populations with an emphasis on sexual and reproductive health and spent a year of training holding a continuity clinic at the Mazzoni Center, a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning (LGBTQ) community health clinic in Philadelphia. She sought additional training experience during residency through Pathways to Housing PA in Philadelphia, working primarily with patients with substance use disorder (SUD).

Since joining the Cooper University Health Care Center for Healing as faculty, Dr. Ehrman-Dupre has focused on integrating primary care and reproductive health services into clinical settings. She also clinically leads the Empowering Mothers to Parent and Overcome with Resilience (EMPOWR) perinatal medical group visits. As a Cooper Addiction Medicine Fellow, her quality improvement (QI) project focused on pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) initiation for injection drug users (IDU), and she has since lectured both providers at Cooper and in the broader Camden community about PrEP for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention.

Dr. Ehrman-Dupre looks forward to expanding her work to improve Center for Healing patient access to a full spectrum of preventative health services.

Rachel Haroz, MD, FAACT, is Medical Director of the Cooper University Health Care Center for Healing, Division Head of Toxicology and Addiction Medicine at Cooper University Health Care, and Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine (EM) at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University (CMSRU). She is triple-board certified in EM, medical toxicology, and addiction medicine, obtaining her bachelor of arts degree in biology from Brandeis University and medical degree from Tufts University, and completing a residency in EM and fellowship in medical toxicology.

She has spent nearly her entire career thus far working in inner city emergency departments (ED), mostly in the Camden, New Jersey area where opioid intoxication, abuse, and dependency are rampant. She helped build and now staffs the Center for Healing in Camden, an addiction medicine specialty clinic dedicated to treating patients with SUD. Further she helped build an integrated clinic for patients with HIV and SUD.

In 2016, Dr. Haroz helped create and implement an initiative to prescribe buprenorphine from the ED and "bridge" patients to treatment to various community partners (now known as CUH EDAP, Cooper University Health Care Emergency Department Addiction Pathways). In 2019, she helped launch an innovative program aimed at initiating buprenorphine via paramedics in the field (now known as Bupe FIRST EMS, Buprenorphine Field Initiation of ReScue Treatment). She is also heavily involved in the education of residents, medical students, and pharmacists, and organizes education forums focused on topics related to opioid dependency and treatment.

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Matthew Salzman, MD, MPH, graduated from Jefferson Medical College, now the Sidney Kimmel Medical College, and trained in Emergency Medicine and Medical Toxicology at Drexel University College of Medicine. He recently completed his master’s in public health at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University. He is the Medical Director of the Addiction Medicine Consult Liaison Service at Cooper University Health Care as well as the Medical Director of Research for Cooper’s Center for Healing.

Dr. Salzman is board-certified in Emergency Medicine, Medical Toxicology, and Addiction Medicine. He is a volunteer consultant at the Philadelphia Poison Control Center and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. He is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University and an attending physician in Emergency Medicine and Addiction Medicine at Cooper University Health Care. In addition to working with medical students, residents, and fellows in the Emergency Department and throughout the hospital, Dr. Salzman lectures locally, regionally, and nationally. He has academic interest in allostatic load and resilience in individuals with substance use disorders, as well as acute pain management for people with opioid dependence and opioid use disorder.

Ryan Schmidt, MD is Program Director for the Cooper University Health Care Addiction Medicine Fellowship, Medical Director of Recovery Village Cherry Hill at Cooper, and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University (CMSRU). He is a graduate of the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, and completed his internal medicine residency at Temple University Hospital and addiction medicine fellowship at Caron Treatment Center.

Dr. Schmidt is board-certified in both internal medicine and addiction medicine. He is a member of the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM), the American College of Academic Addiction Medicine, and the ASAM Physician-in-Training Committee. He is a previous recipient of the ASAM Ruth Fox Scholarship.

Dr. Schmidt is a certified buprenorphine training instructor through Provider Clinical Support System (PCSS) and has participated in multiple trainings at Cooper as well as state-level trainings. He has had multiple poster presentations at the ASAM Annual Conference on topics including hepatitis C virus (HCV) screening for those undergoing inpatient substance use disorder (SUD) treatment and co-prescribing naloxone in primary care patients on chronic opiates.

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