Associate Professor
Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Rachel Wightman, MD is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Epidemiology at Alpert Medical School of Brown University. She is triple board-certified in medical toxicology, emergency medicine, and addiction medicine. She is Director of Toxicology and Addiction Medicine for Brown Emergency Medicine and a Consulting Medical Director at Rhode Island Department of Health.
She co-founded the Rhode Island Buprenorphine Hotline, a statewide telehealth low-threshold buprenorphine treatment access line in partnership with Rhode Island Department of Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities, and Hospitals funded by SAMSHA. Dr. Wightman is MPI on a NIDA funded study identifying optimal buprenorphine dosing for OUD treatment and prevention of overdose (UG3DA056880) and MPI on a Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts (FORE) study evaluating local drug supply changes (testRI). She was the PI on a NIDA funded study evaluating cannabis hyperemesis syndrome (R21 DA055023) and has been Site-PI and Co-I on NIDA and CDC grants related to opioid and cannabis use.
