Amy Bohnert, PhD, MHS

Institute Co-Director

Professor; Research Investigator, The Center for Clinical Management Research, a Health Services Research and Development Center of Innovation, Department of Veterans Affairs

Dr. Bohnert is a Professor at the University of Michigan in the Departments of Anesthesiology (primary), Psychiatry, and Epidemiology and co-director of the Opioid Research Institute. She is also co-director of the Michigan Opioid Collaborative within the Michigan Overdose Prevention Engagement Network (OPEN), which seeks to improve access and quality of treatment for opioid use disorders throughout Michigan through community outreach and clinician education. 

Dr. Bohnert focuses her research on epidemiology and brief interventions regarding chronic pain, opioid misuse, overdose, substance use and related disorders. Learn more about Dr. Bohnert

Areas of Interest

Mortality among substance users, particularly fatal drug and medication overdoses

Use of longitudinal and patient care datasets for clinical epidemiology research

Brief interventions related to prescription drug use and overdose prevention

Credentials

  • Research Fellow, University of Michigan Medical School, Department of Psychiatry 
  • Post-Doctoral Fellow Veterans Affairs (VA) National Serious Mental Illness Treatment Research and Evaluation Center (SMITREC), Ann Arbor, MI 
  • Ph.D. in Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Mental Health 
  • M.H.S. (Masters in Health Science) in Mental Health Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health Department of Mental Health 
  • B.A. in Psychology and in English (Dual Degree)

Published Articles or Reviews

View Dr. Bohnert’s Michigan Research Experts profile.