Dr. Poland earned her medical degree from Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit. She completed her internal medicine residency at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and her addiction medicine fellowship at Boston University in Massachusetts. Dr. Poland’s clinical interests include safe opioid prescribing, medication assisted treatment of substance use disorders and treatment of females with substance use disorders. As a Learning Society Chief, Dr. Poland hopes to increase awareness of healthy behaviors, self-care, wellness and decreasing risky behaviors and stigma; for both the medical students and their patients. When not working, she enjoys spending time with her husband and two children and their chickens: Sweetie, Sunny, Cuddles and Jim.