Smita Prasad

Smita Prasad, MD, MPH, MBA, DFASAM, CMRO is board certified in Family Medicine and Addiction Medicine. She is an Assistant Professor of Addiction Medicine with the Tulane Dept. of Psychiatry and serves as the Program Director for the Tulane Addiction Medicine Fellowship. She was recently named a Distinguished Fellow of the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM). She has many roles and is the Medical Director of the Louisiana Addictive Disorder Regulatory Authority Board, the Immediate Past President of the Louisiana Society of Addiction Medicine, and the current Chair of the Physicians Health Special Interest Group for the ASAM. She provides outpatient addiction medicine services at the Tulane Addiction Recovery Clinic in New Orleans where she is also Medical Director. She is currently the Medical Director of the Hancock Co. Family Treatment Court in Bay St. Louis, MS, the only treatment court of its kind in the United States. She recently became Medical Director of the new, family-focused, recovery center, Canal Pointe, a facility run by the Volunteers of America Southeast Louisiana. She is a consultant for the Opioid Response Network STR-TA, has begun working closely with the Tulane Transplant team to provide Addiction Medicine services at East Jefferson General Hospital in Metairie, Louisiana as well as leading the HOPE Council Clinical Subgroup for the Louisiana Office of Behavioral Health. She is an avid volunteer and has been recognized as a New Orleans CityBusiness 2024 and 2025 Health Care Hero. She lives with her family in Springfield, Louisiana.