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Erin R. McKnight, MD, MPH, FASAM

Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Medical Director Substance Use Treatment and Recovery Program
Nationwide Children's Hospital, Ohio

Erin R. McKnight, MD, MPH, FASAM
Dr. McKnight is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at The Ohio State University College of Medicine and an attending physician in the Division of Adolescent Medicine at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, and is the Medical Director of the Substance Use Treatment and Recovery Program where her clinical and research interests focus on adolescent substance abuse. She received her medical degree from Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine and completed her pediatric residency training, pediatric chief resident year, and adolescent medicine fellowship at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. She received her Master in Public Heath from The Ohio State University. Clinically, she provides outpatient care for adolescents with substance use disorder as well as cares for adolescents with reproductive health, mental health, and general care needs. Through quality improvement efforts helped increase retention in the STAR program, therefore improving long term recovery for adolescents and young adults. She has also been instrumental in quality improvement efforts hospital wide to reduce the amount of prescription opioid doses pediatric patients receive from Nationwide Children’s and has increased education on opioid safety for providers, patients, and families, receiving grant funding from Cardinal Health for these endeavors. She has been extensively published, as her research interests include the epidemiologic investigation of opioid misuse in Ohio. She is currently a co-investigator on a National Institute of Health (NIH) R21 grant to utilize latent spatial-temporal models to better characterize the opioid epidemic within the state of Ohio, thereby directing important funds to those areas most affected.

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