Holly Ann Russell, M.D.

Professional Background

Dr. Russell earned a B.S. in Biochemistry from Boston College, and went on to serve in the Jesuit Volunteer Corps for a year in Oakland, California working as a counselor and nursing assistant at a residential treatment center for adolescents with substance abuse disorders. She obtained her M.D. degree with a Distinction in Community Service from the University of Rochester in 2007, and completed internship and residency in Family Medicine with an Area of Concentration in Research at Lancaster General Hospital in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. In 2010, she returned to the University of Rochester and completed a faculty development fellowship and a Master's of Clinical Investigation.

Dr. Russell is Board Certified in Addiction Medicine and is the founder and director of the Addiction Medicine program at Highland Family Medicine. For the last 3 years she has been working on a project looking at how to expand access to treatment for Opioid Use Disorder within Primary Care settings including the us of telemedicine technology. Dr. Russell is the Medical Director of Clinical and Community Programs at the Center for Community Health and Prevention and the director of the Faculty Development Fellowship in the Department of Family Medicine.