Christina A Brezing, MD

Dr. Brezing is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry in the Division on Substance Use Disorders at Columbia University, and a Research Scientist at New York State Psychiatric Institute. She attended Duke University for her undergraduate degree in biology with a focus in biochemistry, and completed her medical degree at the University of Florida where she graduated Alpha Omega Alpha and with honors in research. During medical school, she completed the Howard Hughes Medical Institute-National Institutes of Health (HHMI-NIH) Research Scholars Program studying neuroimaging of impulse control disorders, including pathological gambling, compulsive sexual behavior, and shopping. She completed psychiatry residency at Harvard Medical School-Massachusetts General Hospital and McLean Hospital, where she served as chief resident in addiction, in addition to a National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) funded T32 research fellowship in Addiction Psychiatry at Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute. She is board certified in addiction and general psychiatry.

Dr. Brezing is currently NIH funded with a 5-year NIDA K23 award to investigate medication treatments for cannabis use disorder and applications of technology to clinical trials for substance use disorders. She is a Columbia Eric D. Hadar Fellow, and her research has been supported by the American Psychiatric Institute for Research and Education, the Dartmouth Center for Technology and Behavioral Health, and the Smithers Foundation. She is the course director for the addiction curriculum for the Columbia Psychiatry residency and the co-director for the curriculum for the Columbia Addiction Psychiatry fellowship. She previously served on the boards of the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry and New York Society of Addiction Medicine.