Frances Rudnick Levin, MD is the Kennedy-Leavy Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University and the Chief of the Division on Substance Use Disorders at NYSPI/Columbia University. For over twenty years, she served as the Director of the Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship Program at New York Presbyterian Hospital and is the PI of T32 NIDA funded Substance Abuse Research Fellowship which has been continuously funded since 1994. Dr. Levin has been NIH funded for over 30 years, has over 340 articles and book chapters on a wide range of topics including treatments of substance use disorders, assessment and treatment of co-occurring psychiatric illnesses and vulnerabilities associated with substance use disorders. She serves as the Medical Director of two SAMHSA-supported national training initiatives, the Providers’ Clinical Support System (PCSS), a SAMHSA-supported national training and mentoring initiative focused on addressing the opioid use disorder crisis as well as the State Targeted Response technical assistance grant (the Opioid Response Network) that provides technical assistance for the prevention, training and recovery of substance use disorders with a focus on opioids and stimulants. She has been part of the NIDA – Initial Review Group: Training and Career Development Subcommittee and NIDA Interventions to Prevent and Treat Addiction (IPTA). She currently is a member of the National Advisory Council on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. She served as president of the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry, Chair of the American Psychiatric Association’s council on Addictions and is the President-elect of the American Professional Society of ADHD and Related Disorders.