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  3. Rohit Abraham

Rohit Abraham MD MPH MAT

Rohit Abraham
Designation
  • Program Director, Combined Psychiatry & Family Medicine Residency
  • Assistant Professor of Psychiatry & Family Medicine
Gender Pronouns
  • he/him
Contact Information
  • rohit20 [at] uic.edu
  • Neuropsychiatric Institute (NPI)
    912 S. Wood St.
    Department of Psychiatry (MC 913)
    Chicago IL 60612
  • Room #:130B

Dr. Abraham completed his undergraduate degree in Honors Neuroscience and Applied Statistics at the University of Michigan. Prior to medical school, he also served as a 9th grade biology in Detroit Public Schools while pursuing a Master of Arts in Teaching. He attended medical school at Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, with clinical training at the Flint campus as part of the Leadership in Medicine for the Underserved certificate program. He also earned a Master of Public Health in Health Policy and Management as a Zuckerman Fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health between his 3rd and 4th years of medical school.

Dr. Abraham is board-certified in Psychiatry and Family Medicine. He completed a 5-year combined training program at Boston Medical Center, where he served as chief resident and founded a reverse-integrated primary care clinic, embedded within the specialty psychiatry clinics. He later trained in an Addiction Medicine fellowship within the Psychiatry Department at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

  • Addiction Med/Psych inpatient consults, Primary Care, Integrated Behavioral Health, and Emergency Psychiatry
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Abraham+R&cauthor_id=35120058
    1. Peterkin, A., Abraham, R., Harris, M. (2022). A case of phenibut directed detoxification leading to toxicity during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Addiction Medicine. 16(5), 602-605. https://doi.org/10.1097/adm.0000000000000966
    2. Abraham, R., Wilkinson, E., Jabbarpour, Y., Petterson, S., Bazemore, A. (2020). Family physicians play key role in bridging access gap for opioid use disorder. American Family Physician, 102(1), 10.
    3. Abraham, R., Wilkinson, E., Jabbarpour, Y., Petterson, S., Bazemore, A. (2020). Characteristics of office-based buprenorphine prescribers for Medicare patients. Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine. 33(1), 9-16. https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2020.01.190233
    4. Jones, J., Abraham, R., Emery, M., Oulette, L., (2019). Issues in professionalism confronting beginning medical students during a clerkship in emergency medicine. American Journal of Emergency Medicine, 37(5), 990-991. doi.org/10.1016/j.ajem.2018.09.042
    5. Mohamed, M., Abraham, R., Maraqa, T., and Elian, S. (2018). Cocaine-induced Type-A aortic dissection extending to the common iliac arteries. Cureus, 10(1), e2059.
    6. Vyas, D., Hollis, M., Abraham, R., Chandra, S., Malhotra, A., Purohit, H., Rustagi, N., and Pal, R. (2016). Pre-hospital care training in developing economies: A multi-institutional study. Journal of Surgical Research, 203(1), 22-27.
    7. Abraham, R., Vyas, D., Narayan, M., and Vyas, A. (2015). Strategically leapfrogging education in pre-hospital trauma management: Four-tiered training protocols. American Journal of Robotic Surgery, 2(1), 9-15.
    8. Aekka, A., Abraham, R., Hollis, M., Boudiab, E., Laput, G., Purohit, H., Basson, M., and Vyas, D. (2015). Pre-hospital trauma care education for first responders in India. Journal of Surgical Research, 197(2), 331-338.
    9. Leventhal, D. K., Stoetzner, C. R., Abraham, R., Pettibone, J., Demarco, K., and Berke, J. D. (2014). Dissociable effects of dopamine on learning and performance within sensorimotor striatum. Basal Ganglia, 4(2), 43-54.
Date Topic Category Status
05/27/2026 Psychiatry and Family Medicine Combined Training Program Upcoming Event