David de Gijsel, MD, MSc, MPH is the Chief Health Officer at Better Life Partners, a community-based health care organization providing whole-person care to people who struggle with addiction. He holds appointments as Assistant Professor at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice. He is a staff physician in the Section of Infectious Disease & International Health at Dartmouth Health.
David focuses on the syndemic of poverty, trauma, addiction, and infectious diseases. He works towards social justice through community-based health care delivery, employing principles of harm-reduction, trauma-informed care, and liberation medicine.
David hails from the Netherlands, completing medical school at the University of Amsterdam and his residency in Internal Medicine & Primary Care at Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, NY. He completed a fellowship in Infectious Disease at Dartmouth-Hitchcock and a residency in Leadership Preventive Medicine, combined with an MPH at The Dartmouth Institute.
We must continue to push for the expansion of telehealth for Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) more broadly and call on our federal leaders to do what is right…to change the game for good and make telehealth a permanent solution. Lives depend on it.