Matthew Tobey, MD, MPH - Course Director

Dr. Tobey leads the MGH Rural Medicine Programs, works as a primary care physician at the Rosebud Indian Health Service and manages a medication assisted therapy program in Rosebud, South Dakota. He is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Dinah Applewhite, MD

Dr. Applewhite is an Addiction Medicine physician in Boston, Massachusetts who works with homeless individuals and other special populations. She is an Instructor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Josephine Henderson-Frost, MD

Dr. Henderson-Frost is originally from rural New Hampshire where she grew up with a love for the outdoors. She received her BA from Harvard College and MD from Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx. She completed residency in internal medicine and primary care at Massachusetts General Hospital, where she is now a fellow in rural health leadership.

Stephen Tamang, MD

Dr Tamang is the founder of Project Recovery, a facility located in Rapid City that provides addiction treatment across the state.  Among face-to-face visits, the Project Recovery team also continues providing telemedicine services allowing patients to receive treatment remotely for opioid, alcohol, and meth. 

Melanie Weiss, OD

Dr Weiss is an optometrist from Watertown, SD who struggled with opioid use disorder herself.  She uses her story to spread awareness. Her mission through My Vision and My Hope is to “spread awareness about her journey through the addiction to pain medication and her recovery and that sometimes bad things happen to good people but you have a choice to let it define you or make something of it.”