Tricia Bautista

Tricia Bautista, MD is a dual board-certified family medicine physician and addiction specialist serving as Medical Director of Substance Use Services at NYC Health + Hospitals/Correctional Health Services, where her commitments to addiction medicine, health equity and criminal justice reform converge. As Medical Director, Bautista oversees a multidisciplinary team delivering evidence-based and innovative substance use care across New York City's jails on Rikers Island, including medications for opioid, alcohol and stimulant use disorders, harm reduction services and an actively expanding peer advocacy program. Her work spans direct patient care, clinical program development and regulatory operations at the forefront of carceral health transformation, including the nation's first Outposted Therapeutic Housing Unit at NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue. A Bloomberg Fellow, incoming MPH candidate at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Board member of the New York Society of Addiction Medicine, Bautista is committed to translating frontline clinical experience into population-level impact through policy, leadership and systems change.

NYC Health + Hospitals/Correctional Health Services is the direct provider of health care in New York City's jails, delivering medical, mental health, substance use, social work, dental and reentry services. Beyond direct care, CHS leverages the full resources of the nation's largest municipal health system to support successful community reintegration and serves as a pivotal partner in New York City's criminal-legal reform efforts. NYC Health + Hospitals is the nation's largest municipal health care delivery system, committed to serving all New Yorkers with compassion, dignity and respect regardless of immigration status or ability to pay. Its 45,000-person workforce delivers culturally responsive care to more than one million patients annually across all five boroughs.