Mike is a board-certified Family Medicine and Addiction medicine physician based in New York City, whose practice sits at the intersection of clinical care and health justice. His clinical work spans substance use, addiction medicine, harm reduction, and psychedelic therapy. As Medical Director of Cardea, a psychedelic therapy space, he integrates harm reduction principles into clinical protocols for ketamine and other modalities. Concurrently, as an Attending Physician with the CATCH Team (Consult for Addiction Treatment and Care in Hospitals) at Lincoln Hospital, he works to expand access to evidence-based addiction treatment for some of the city’s most marginalized patients. His frontline experience includes previously servicing for nearly three years as Senior Clinician at OnPoint NYC, the nation’s first overdose prevention center, where he provided direct healthcare to marginalized people who use drugs and engage in sex work.

Beyond his clinical roles, Mike is socialist who believes that issues such as poverty, inequality, and more generally the "social determinants of health," (a term used to disguise what they truly are: results of capitalism's violence), are not malfunctions of capitalism, but essential to its operation. He believes that effectively addressing disease and illness requires confronting the system that creates them. This analysis drives his deep commitment to worker organizing. He was part of organizing around and ultimately winning the first unilateral decrease in resident work hour limits in residency history and later helped secure the first union at an overdose prevention center in U.S. history at OnPoint NYC. A member of and writer for Left Voice, most of his work can be found atleftvoice.org, where he critically examines the intersection of capitalist violence---or and Friedrich Engels referred to it, social murder---and health.