Rachel Alinsky

Dr. Rachel Alinsky is a quadruple-boarded adolescent medicine and addiction medicine physician, who specializes in the treatment of a wide range of physical and mental health conditions for adolescents and young adults, particularly those with substance use disorders. She earned her MD from Georgetown University School of Medicine, and went on to complete a dual residency in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School. She then completed a dual fellowship in Adolescent Medicine and Addiction Medicine at Johns Hopkins, where she also earned her Masters in Public Health. She has a strong passion for increasing access to addiction treatment for adolescents and young adults, and has performed health services and systems research on this topic that has been published in JAMA Pediatrics and the Journal of Adolescent Health. She is also dedicated to combating stigma regarding substance use and people who use substances, and led a policy statement for the American Academy of Pediatrics focused on changing the language all pediatric providers use to discuss substance use to be medically-accurate, person-first, and non-stigmatizing. 

Dr. Alinsky joined the University of Maryland University Health Center in 2023 as the inaugural Medical Director of the Substance Use Intervention and Treatment (SUIT) unit, where she oversees substance use disorder treatment services and provides addiction medicine treatment for undergraduate and graduate students who have concerns about their use of alcohol, cannabis, or other drugs. She also serves on the university’s Alcohol Coalition and as a member of the Institutional Review Board.