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Benjamin F. Springgate, MD, MPH, FACP

Professor
LSU School of Medicine - New Orleans
LSU Health - New Orleans, Louisiana

Benjamin Springgate MD, MPH, FACP is an addiction medicine and internal medicine physician and researcher, and serves as Professor of Medicine, and Community Health Science and Policy at LSU Health-New Orleans. From 2023 - 2024 Dr. Springgate served a Fellow in CMS’ Center for Clinical Standards and Quality, focused on policy related to behavioral health and addiction services. At the Louisiana Department of Health, Dr. Springgate serves as Senior Policy Advisor to the Secretary and Deputy Secretary for policy related to Addiction, Opioids, Overdose, Substance Use, and Harm Reduction. At LSU Health-New Orleans, Dr. Springgate provides leadership as Chief of Community and Population Medicine; Director of the Center for Healthcare Value and Equity; and Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs for the Department of Medicine. A practicing internal medicine and addiction specialist, Dr. Springgate co-founded the LSU Integrated Health Clinic at University Medical Center – New Orleans - the first and largest academic primary care center in Louisiana focused on caring for patients with opioid use disorder, addictions, and related health concerns. Dr. Springgate’s community-partnered participatory research has focused on identifying opportunities to improve health outcomes in under-resourced communities threatened by climate change and other risks to population health, including substance use disorders and COVID-19. As a Health and Aging Policy Fellow in 2022-2023, Dr. Springgate served as a health policy advisor working in the United States Senate. From 2020-2023, Dr. Springgate was Chief Health Officer for the New Orleans Public Schools. For almost two decades, Dr. Springgate and his community partners have been supported by funders including NIH, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute, PCORNet, the National Academies of Sciences Gulf Research Program, the American Red Cross, and others to lead community-partnered health research and implementation of evidence-based population health programs in under-resourced communities.

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