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Portrait of Daniel R. Karlin, MD, MA

Daniel R. Karlin, MD, MA

Board-certified psychiatrist and addiction medicine specialist. Medical reviewer for clinical and coverage content on suboxone.doctor.

21peer-reviewed publicationsindexed on PubMed
1,355citationsper Google Scholar
18h-indexper Google Scholar
1942434311NPI numberverifiable in the federal registry

Background

Dr. Karlin is a psychiatrist, addiction medicine specialist, and medical informatician. His work sits at the intersection of clinical medicine and technology, covering psychiatric drug development, novel measurement instruments, and data-driven approaches to clinical research.

He studied at Columbia University, earning a BA in Neuroscience and Behavior and an MA in Clinical Informatics and Cognition within Biomedical Informatics. He completed his MD at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and his psychiatry residency at Tufts Medical Center, where he was named Executive Chief Resident after two years.

Education and training

  • BA, Neuroscience and Behavior. Columbia University.
  • MA, Clinical Informatics and Cognition, Biomedical Informatics. Columbia University.
  • MD. University of Colorado School of Medicine.
  • Psychiatry residency, named Executive Chief Resident. Tufts Medical Center.

Areas of focus

Psychiatry · Addiction medicine · Medical informatics · Digital health and digital biomarkers

What he reviews here

Dr. Karlin reviews the clinical and coverage explanations published on this site: how buprenorphine treatment works, what Medicaid and Medicare cover, what to expect at a first appointment, and the framing of counseling alongside medication. He does not review individual clinic listings, which come directly from the federal SAMHSA registry and are not editorially assessed.

He is not affiliated with any clinic listed on this site, and no clinic can pay for placement or review. How we rank and order listings.

Publication counts and citation figures are from Google Scholar and PubMed and were verified on 2026-07-28. Both links above are to his profiles, so the figures can be checked directly.