Dr. Miriam Schizer graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1992 and finished her pediatric residency at Boston Children's Hospital in 1995. Prior to joining the Adolescent Substance Use and Addiction Program ("ASAP") at Boston Children's in 2009, she pursued fellowship training in pulmonary medicine, got a master's degree at the Harvard School of Public Health and spent time working in primary care.

She has spent the last 13 years working in addiction medicine as an attending in ASAP. She is board certified in general pediatrics and addiction medicine. Aside from her work in ASAP, she devotes a great deal of time teaching primary care physicians on the screening and treatment of adolescents with substance use through her collaboration with the Pediatric Physician's Organization at Children's, or PPOC.