Rachel Haroz, MD

Dr. Haroz is Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, Division Head of Toxicology and Addiction Medicine, and Medical Director at the Center for Healing. She is board certified in emergency medicine, medical toxicology, and addiction medicine, obtaining her BA in biology from Brandeis University, her MD from Tufts University and completed a residency in emergency medicine and fellowship in medical toxicology. She has spent the last 17 years working in inner city emergency departments, mostly in the Camden area where opioid intoxication, abuse and dependency are rampant. She helped build and now staffs the Outreach Clinic at the Urban Health Institute at Cooper University Hospital in Camden, New Jersey, an addiction medicine specialty clinic dedicated to treating patients with substance use disorders and helped build an integrated clinic for patients with HIV and substance use disorders. In 2016 she helped create and implement an initiative to prescribe buprenorphine from the Emergency Department and bridge patients to treatment to various community partners. In 2019 she helped launch an innovative program aimed at initiating buprenorphine via paramedics in the field. She is also heavily involved in education of residents, medical students, and pharmacists and organizes education forums focused on topics related to opioid dependency and treatment.