Board of Directors
Kristine Torres-Lockhart, MD, FASAM
Regional Director, Region I
Kristine Torres-Lockhart, MD, FASAM is Chief Medical Officer at Phoenix House New York, and Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine and Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Montefiore Medical Center and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. As CMO, she oversees all medical and clinical programming across the organization, including outpatient, intensive outpatient, and residential substance use treatment and outpatient and community residential mental health programs. She was the founding director of the Addiction Consult Service at Montefiore's Weiler Hospital and previously served as the Program Director of the Addiction Medicine Fellowship.
An addiction medicine and internal medicine physician, she leads the development and implementation of health system interventions to improve substance use disorder (SUD) care across treatment settings and across transitions of care. Dr. Torres-Lockhart provides SUD treatment, HIV/AIDS care, hepatitis C treatment, and general internal medicine care at community based mental health care sites. She also actively teaches and supervises medical students, residents, and fellows. She is double board certified in addiction medicine and internal medicine and credentialed as an HIV specialist by the American Academy of HIV Medicine.
Dr. Torres-Lockhart completed her fellowship training in addiction medicine at Montefiore Medical Center. Prior to arriving at Montefiore, she completed her residency training in internal medicine and primary care at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA, where she also served as primary care chief medicine resident at the West Roxbury and Jamaica Plain Veterans Affairs Medical Centers. She received her undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College and her medical degree from the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for the New York Society of Addiction Medicine previously as Communication Chair and now as Secretary.