Joshua A. Barocas, MD

Dr. Barocas earned an MD from the George Washington University School of Medicine and Public Health. He completed residency and chief residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics. Dr. Barocas completed a fellowship in infectious diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.

He is an infectious diseases physician with an expertise in the infectious complications of drug use. His research focus is in clinical decision-making and health policy at the intersection of substance use and infectious diseases.

Dr. Barocas has worked on issues related to the infectious and non-infectious complications of substance use. Recent and ongoing projects include estimation of the prevalence of opioid use disorder in Massachusetts, social determinants of non-opioid overdose death, and mathematical modeling to evaluate the clinical impact, costs, and cost effectiveness of integrated substance use treatment and HCV treatment among HIV-infected persons. He is developing a simulation model of injection opioid use-related bacterial infections to estimate the long-term impact and cost-effectiveness of hospital-based interventions that are designed to improve outcomes in this population.