R. Douglas Bruce, MD

Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine (AIDS)

Mentors

Frederick Altice, MD; Gerald Friedland, MD

Background

Dr. Bruce is an Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine (AIDS). He received his medical degree from UT Southwestern Medical School and did his residency in Internal Medicine at the Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, TX. He was an Attending Physician in the AIDS Program and Infectious Disease Section for Yale-New Haven Hospital. Prior to his current faculty position he was Director of the Yale AIDS Program – Ukraine Training Program on Opioid Substitution Treatments and he is Medical Director at the South Central Rehabilitation Center for the Hill Health Corporation. Dr. Bruce is committed to embarking upon a career as an academic patient-oriented clinical researcher at the interface in the management of patients with substance abuse and its complications, including HIV and hepatitis C.

Project Summary

Dr. Bruce’s project, Integrating Hepatitis C Treatment within Methadone Maintenance Programs aims to develop and implement HCV treatment in a substance abuse treatment site. Specifically, to examine the feasibility of integrating HCV treatment into existing models of methadone maintenance therapy and will consist of two phases, the first which establish the feasibility of integrating HCV treatment into existing models of methadone maintenance therapy (MMT) and once feasibility has been established, the second phase will conduct a pilot study of one model of delivering HCV treatment. The model will compare co-location of MMT with HCV treatment and MMT with offsite HCV treatment.