Dr. Samuels is an emergency medicine physician, health services researcher, and Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University. She is dual board certified in Emergency and Addiction Medicine and the consulting Assistant Medical Director for the Rhode Island Department of Health’s (RIDOH) Drug Overdose Prevention Program. She is physician lead for the Substance Misuse Assistance Response Team, an emergency department community health worker-peer recovery specialist program and co-founder of the Rhode Island Buprenorphine Hotline, an audio-only buprenorphine telehealth service which provides low barrier buprenorphine treatment access with linkage to maintenance treatment.