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Dr. Ingrid Binswanger

Dr. Ingrid Binswanger


Ingrid Binswanger, MD, MPH
is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine and a Robert Wood Johnson Physician Faculty Scholar.  Dr. Binswanger obtained an MS in Health and Medical Sciences and her MD at the University of California, Berkeley/University of California, San Francisco Joint Medical Program. She completed the Primary Care Internal Medicine residency at the University of California, San Francisco.  Dr. Binswanger completed fellowship training as a VA fellow in the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at the University of Washington, where she also obtained a MPH in Health Services. She then joined the faculty of the Division of General Internal Medicine and the Division of Substance Dependence at the University of Colorado Denver.  

Dr. Binswanger conducts research on health and the criminal justice system, the medical complications of drug use and vulnerable populations. She published the results of her research on death rates after release from prison in the New England Journal of Medicine and was honored for this work with the Mack Lipkin Sr. Associate from the Society for General Internal Medicine. Her goal is to find effective ways to improve the health of individuals and communities heavily impacted by incarceration.


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