Dr. Rupinder Brar, MD, CCFP, CSIAM, is a Canada Addiction Medicine Research Fellow with the BC Centre on Substance Use and a primary care and addictions medicine physician with the PHS Community Services Society in the Downtown Eastside. She also works as an Addictions Consultant at St. Paul’s Hospital and Surrey Memorial Hospital and as a Clinical Instructor with the Department of Family Practice at the University of British Columbia. Dr. Brar’s research interests include alcohol use disorder and how it affects the treatment of concurrent substance use disorders, as well as alcohol use disorder in South Asian communities.