Tran Tran, PharmD, BCPS is an associate board member of ISAM. She earned her PharmD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and completed a pharmacy practice residency at the University of Illinois Chicago. Dr. Tran is a medical science liaison for Braeburn and prior to that was a tenured Associate Professor in Pharmacy Practice at Midwestern University Chicago College of Pharmacy and the dedicated clinical pharmacist on the Substance Use Intervention Team (SUIT) at Rush University Medical Center in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences.

Dr. Tran’s research in addiction medicine has been funded by SAMHSA and the Portes Foundation and has received honorable mention from ASAM. Dr. Tran is former chair of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy Pain and Palliative Care Practice and Research Network, past-chair of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy Substance Use Disorder Special Interest Group, and a mentor for a Pharmacy Quality Alliance-CVS Health Foundation Scholar. She is a contributing author for the Pharmacotherapy Casebook, a Patient-Focused Approach, has given lectures regionally and nationally, and authored various book chapters and peer-reviewed manuscripts.

Dr. Tran has received state and national recognition for her clinical practice, professional service, and research from organizations such as the Illinois Council of Health-systems Pharmacists, New York State Council of Health-system Pharmacists, New York City Society of Health Systems Pharmacists, Pharmacy Times, and the National Association of Chain Drug Stores. She was the pharmacy subject matter expert for the Midwest Alternative to Opioids (ALTO) Program, a Great Lakes Partners for Patients Hospital Improvement Innovation Network initiative to implement opioid reduction in hospital emergency departments in Illinois, Wisconsin, and Michigan supported by CMS.

Dr. Tran was also the health director for the Midwestern University Drug Overdose Prevention Program and oversaw the SUIT Drug Overdose Prevention Program which has collectively trained thousands of opioid overdose responders in Illinois. She is also the Co-Chair of the Illinois Naloxone Project and was part of the work group that helped shape the state's legislation around naloxone access laws.