Meet the Fellows
WELCOME CLASS OF 2025
Elizabeth Corwin, MD I was born and raised in Seattle, Washington. For college, I ventured out east to Boston College, where I majored in psychology. After graduating from college, while I was debating whether to pursue a career in medicine, social work, or psychology, I worked as an AmeriCorps member at Glide Health Services in the Tenderloin District of San Francisco. Glide Health Services served a patient population that were often underinsured or uninsured, frequently experiencing housing instability, as well as substance use disorders. I had many different roles there, but the two most meaningful for me were working as a case manager and as a member of the harm reduction team. As a case manager, I was able to better understand the interconnectedness of complex illness with mental health and substance-use disorders, social instability, houselessness, and restricted access to care. As part of the harm reduction team, I was a core member of our syringe access and outreach team and helped provide testing for HIV and hepatitis C for at-risk individuals, as well as facilitated Narcan distribution and opioid prevention training for people in the community.
My year at Glide ignited my passion for health equity, harm reduction, and addiction medicine. I went to University of Michigan Medical School, where I decided to pursue Family Medicine, as it aligned with my values and varied medical interests. I was ecstatic to move back to my beloved Pacific Northwest to do my residency at OHSU. In residency, and then now as I have been working as a primary care provider in NE Portland at the Kaiser East Interstate Clinic, many of my most meaningful patient experiences have been working with people with substance use disorders. This realization is ultimately what drew me back to OHSU to do a fellowship in Addiction Medicine, to allow me to gain more expertise in this incredibly important and evolving area of medicine. As a fellow, I am looking forward to working within interdisciplinary teams and to learn from each member of those teams, as well as to learn from my co-fellows and supervising attendings. I am confident at OHSU that I will get a very strong clinical training, and I look forward to the diverse experiences that I will have exposure to.
Outside of medicine, I love to spend time with my husband, my two-year old daughter, my dog (Moose), as well as friends; I especially enjoy spending time outdoors and exploring the beautiful Pacific Northwest, whether that be going on a run, a hike, biking, skiing, or just strolling through a local park.
Andrew Duchesne, MD I am coming from Providence Milwaukie Family Medicine residency and OHSU School of Medicine. My interest in addiction medicine is multifaceted, with lived-experience supporting family members in recovery, being inspired by the community of peer-support and mutual-help groups, and then developing my clinical interest in residency caring for patients with substance use disorders across the healthcare continuum, including pregnant persons and their families. Time and again, many of my most impactful and rewarding patient encounters involved partnering with patients' and their families in their recovery journey. Addiction medicine is uniquely situated at the intersectionality of human rights, political and social reform, cutting-edge pharmacotherapy, grassroots movements and community partnership; it emphasises patient-centered care, harm reduction, compassion, creativity, curiosity, and whole-person healing, perhaps unlike any other field in medicine, fully embodying all of the reasons for which I sought to become a physician.
Outside of work, I enjoy exploring the uniqueness of Portland with my spouse and our 1-year-old dog. You might find us at the Saturday Market or a local food cart, creative art scene, dog park, plant shop, the downtown waterfront enjoying the spring cherry blossoms, or one of Portland's many world-class food venues.
OHSU was a "no brainer" and dream spot for fellowship for my spouse and me. Having lived in Portland for the past 7 years (and Oregon for much longer) it is home for us. We are deeply committed to this community. The opportunity to train and work with community partners in the city we love is truly a joy.
Jana Mooster, MD I am originally from southern Oregon, and am happy to be back in Portland for fellowship. My career goal is to provide full-spectrum primary care, including prenatal care, to patients in recovery. I have been working with the local harm reduction and street medicine teams during residency, and am excited to learn more in fellowship. I also have a background in immunology research which led to an interest in high risk behaviors and infections in marginalized groups. I am so excited to work with OHSU’s multidisciplinary team and learn from the leaders in addiction medicine!
Wendy Smith, MD, MPH Although I have been in Portland since 1998, I grew up outside of Boston and went to college in MA, med school in NYC.
I did my OB/Gyn residency at UCLA and then a 2 year RWJ Fellowship in Public Health at UW in Seattle. I moved back to Boston to work for a year and then to Portland where my husband, Steve Long, got a job as a laryngologist. From 1998-2011, I worked at Kaiser and the Center for Health Research. Life got pretty crazy after my 3 kids were born in 2000 (Zaidie), 2003 (Eli), and 2006 (Milo). Searching for a little work-life balance, I became an OB/Gyn hospitalist at Legacy Emanuel in 2011, where I developed a passion for acute care and began to recognize the need to bridge some significant gaps between the transition from outpatient to inpatient care to improve outcomes. Towards this end, I worked for 10 years on the Oregon State Board of Direct Entry Midwifery and am a current member of the Oregon Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Review Committee. My interest in addiction medicine has grown from working to support our amazing midwives, peers and social worker who run the Legacy Project Nurture program.
For fun, I run, play bad tennis (3.0), love to ski, travel, sew easy projects, and bake macarons that usually look awful but often taste ok, and I am on day 206 of Duolingo learning Vietnamese. I try very hard to speak Spanish despite my children’s laughter (who were all in Spanish immersion).
I am incredibly excited to learn from each of you. Thank you so much for welcoming me onto your team.