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Dr. Blanchard is a board-certified Family Medicine physician seeing patients of all ages in the primary care setting. He is also an addiction medicine and public health specialist. Dr. Blanchard is passionate about delivering high quality, evidenced-based medicine to patients he treats and approaches every visit in a patient-centered approach. He provides care for a wide scope of acute and chronic conditions for all ages and has a strong interest in women’s health including birth control and long-acting reversible contraception placement. Additionally, he practices inpatient medicine at NewYork Presbyterian - Allen Hospital. Dr. Blanchard is fellowship trained in addiction medicine and delivers these treatments in the primary care setting. He can facilitate appropriate diagnostic evaluation and treatment planning for a variety of substance use disorders including alcohol and opioid use disorders. During fellowship, Dr. Blanchard also trained in diagnosis and treatment of headache and migraine disorders including administration of Botox injections for chronic migraine. He is adept in a variety of procedures for management of pain including intra-articular and bursal injections and uses a nuanced approach in developing an individualized treatment plan for each patient. As a physician scientist, Dr. Blanchard is passionate about bridging the gap between health economic research and durable, salient policy. His research spans applied health economics and outcomes research in three main areas: economic modeling of health insurance systems, evaluation of policy related to addiction and pain medicine, and outcomes based economic analysis. Dr. Blanchard is a dedicated educator with experience teaching medical students, residents, and public health students and teaches courses in epidemiology and health systems.
