Addiction Medicine Fellowship Faculty

Meet the faculty of the Addiction Medicine Fellowship program.

Emily Zarse, MD, addiction medicine fellowship directorEmily Zarse, MD
Program Director

Fellowship: Indiana University School of Medicine, Addiction Psychiatry, Indianapolis, IN
Residency: Indiana University School of Medicine, Psychiatry, Indianapolis, IN
Medical School: Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN

Dr. Zarse is originally from Bloomington, Indiana. She is board certified in addiction medicine, addiction psychiatry and psychiatry. She is the director for the Addiction Medicine Fellowship. After her fellowship, Dr. Zarse was the area chief of addiction services for a community mental health center in Indianapolis before coming to Community Health Network in 2019.

She has experience educating medical students, residents, and addiction fellows. She is a buprenorphine waiver trainer through both the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry and American Psychiatric Association. Dr. Zarse helped establish an emergency medicine based peer recovery program for opioid overdose survivors at Eskenazi Health. She also worked to expand access to buprenorphine within primary care services. She enjoys teaching, expanding access to care for the underserved, and coming up with innovative ways to meet the needs of the community.

When not working, Dr. Zarse enjoys spending time with her husband and their two young daughters.

 

Kaylee BurgetKaylee Burget
Fellowship Coordinator

Kaylee was born and raised in Carmel, Indiana and attended Indiana University where she graduated with a bachelor of science degree in public health and a minor in human development and family studies. She began working with Community Health Network in 2014.

When not working, Kaylee enjoys spending time with friends, family and her dogs, outside activities, working out, and beach vacations.

 

Amy LaHood, MD, addiction medicine fellowship facultyAmy LaHood, MD

Fellowship: West Suburban Hospital, Maternal Child Health, Oak Park, Illinois
Residency: MacNeal Hospital, Berwyn, Illinois
Medical School: Rush Medical College, Chicago, Illinois
Post-Graduate: Indiana University Purdue University, MPH, Indianapolis, Indiana

Dr. Amy LaHood graduated from Rush Medical College in Chicago and completed a family medicine residency followed by a fellowship in maternal child health. Dr. LaHood started her practice working at an Indianapolis Community Health Center from 2000-2005 and then spent 17 years as family medicine faculty. Dr. LaHood has a passion for population and public health.

As faculty, Dr. LaHood developed one of the first Indiana programs promoting opioid prescribing safeguards for chronic pain and subsequently dedicated a great deal of time advocating for safer opioid prescribing throughout Indiana and at a national level. From 2018-2021, Dr. LaHood directed a program to treat patients with opioid use disorder and became board certified in addiction medicine in 2021. Dr. LaHood continues working throughout Indiana to educate physicians about the benefits and risks of opioids as well as the most effective ways to reduce harm and save lives for persons with substance use disorders.

In January 2023, Dr. LaHood joined Community Health Network as a part time addiction medicine faculty and looks forward to continuing clinical practice for patients with substance use disorders while providing state-of-the-art, evidence-based training to learners.

 

James Barton, DO, addiction medicine fellowJames Barton, DO

Residency: IU Methodist Family Medicine Residency
Medical School: NOVA Southeastern University College of Osteopathic Medicine
Undergraduate: Franklin College
Hometown: Greenwood, Indiana
Hobbies: Watching documentaries, traveling, reading, hanging out with friends and family, staying active

 

Gretchen Johnson, DO, addiction medicine fellowship facultyGretchen Johnson, DO

Fellowship: Community Health Network Addiction Medicine Fellowship (Indianapolis, IN)
Residency: Community Hospital East Family Medicine Residency, Indianapolis, IN
Medical School: Marian University College of Osteopathic Medicine
Undergraduate: Hillsdale College (Michigan)

Dr. Gretchen Cheuk-Wing Johnson is originally from Baldwin, New York. She practices addiction medicine at Community Fairbanks Recovery Center in Indianapolis, IN. She is passionate about providing compassionate care for patients and their support systems, and about training the next generation of physicians.

Outside of medicine, she enjoys spending time with her husband and their three sons.

 

Cynthia Meneghini, MDCynthia Meneghini, MD

Fellowship: MacNeal Hospital, Women’s Health, Berwyn, Illinois
Residency: MacNeal Hospital, Family Medicine, Berwyn, Illinois
Medical School: Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN

Dr. Meneghini is originally from New Jersey. She graduated from Indiana University School of Medicine, then attended residency at MacNeal Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program in Berwyn, Illinois. She also completed a year-long fellowship in women’s health at the same institution. Dr. Meneghini worked in Chicago caring for the underserved, serving as a physician at a local high school health center, and teaching resident physicians and medical students. She then moved to Indianapolis to join the faculty of a large urban residency program. Besides teaching, Dr. Meneghini spent several years at an FQHC site in Connecticut. There, she saw patients and helped oversee a nurse practitioner residency program.

As the director of the Community East Family Medicine residency, Dr. Meneghini has a passion for educating our next generation of physicians. She loves patients of all ages, but has a special fondness for women and children. She has special training in the area of contraception, procedures, gynecology, newborn/childhood health and chronic illness.

In her free time, her family is her other passion. She has three amazing kids and a wonderful husband, also a family physician. She loves music, being active and enjoying the outdoors.

 

Theresa Suozzi, MDTheresa Suozzi, MD

Residency: St. Anthony Family Medicine Residency, Denver, CO
Medical School: Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN

Dr. Suozzi was born and raised in Indianapolis. She completed her medical degree at Indiana University School of Medicine and her residency at St. Anthony Family Medicine Residency in Denver, CO. She came to Community from Connecticut, where she practiced family medicine at Community Health Centers, Inc., and Hartford Medical Group.