Ellen Tuchman
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Ellen Tuchman teaches a course on Social Work Research at Columbia University School of Social Work (CUSSW). She received her MSW in social work from New York University in 1986, and her Ph.D. in social work from New York University in 2003. She is currently adjunct faculty at the New York University School of Social Work and an assistant professor at Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology and Population Health .

She has extensive clinical social work practice and program development in substance abuse treatment, particularly the expansion of opioid treatment in the United States. Dr. Tuchman's current research examines the safety, efficacy, and feasibility of primary care physicians working in conjunction with community pharmacists and social workers to provide methadone treatment in community settings rather than clinics. She has published articles on office based methadone treatment and providers' knowledge, attitudes and expectations of methadone maintenance.

Her doctoral research "Differential diagnosis of women in methadone maintenance treatment: Methadone or menopause" examined the prevalence of symptoms associated with menopause and opiate withdrawal/ methadone and the self-designated causality of symptoms among midlife women in methadone maintenance treatment. Dr. Tuchman's current research interest is the menopausal transition and the intersection of menopause with drug use and HIV risk behaviors among women with a history of drug dependence.