08/25/26: Dr Ezioma Gbujie MD, MPH, MBA is a board-certified Internist and Addiction Medicine specialist who believes that prevention through education is the cheapest way of tackling the Addiction epidemic. She is passionate about leveraging the intersections between the clinical, public health, economic and psychological impacts of Addiction to help people on their recovery journeys, breaking loss cycles, restoring opportunities and protecting the future generations.

She has over 15 years of medical practice experience which include Internal Medicine Residency training at St Peters University Hospital New Brunswick NJ, Attending Physician at Sanford Medical Center Fargo and Addiction Medicine Fellowship at Harvard Medical School/Mass General Brigham in Boston where she still works as a visiting Instructor and clinician. She is the founder of Rebuild Healthcare which is an online Addiction Care Service that breaks down barriers and meets people wherever they are in their recovery journey.

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