Dr. Nikki Bozinoff is an associate scientist in the Addictions Division and a physician in the Concurrent Outpatient Medical and Psychosocial Addiction Support Service and the Addiction Consult Service at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). She is also an assistant professor and Division Head of the Division of Mental Health and Addiction at the Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto.
Dr. Bozinoff served as Program Director for the Enhanced Skills in Addiction Medicine Program at the University of Toronto from 2016–2023 and is active in continuing professional development for physicians in the area of substance use and mental health care.
She received her MD from McMaster University, completed her residency in Family Medicine at the University of Toronto, clinical and post-doctoral research fellowships in addiction medicine at the British Columbia Centre on Substance Use and an MSc in Clinical Epidemiology from the Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation, University of Toronto.
Areas of Research
Dr. Bozinoff is interested in action-oriented, multi methods approaches to understanding factors limiting uptake, penetration, and effectiveness of evidence-based interventions for opioid use disorder and other substance use disorders. Ongoing projects include a comparative ethnography to understand the implementation of buprenorphine induction pathways in two urban emergency departments. She is also currently using administrative health from ICES to inform clinical practice related to opioid agonist therapy and benzodiazepine de-prescribing in Ontario.
Publications
See Dr. Bozinoff' articles on PubMed and Google Scholar.