Andrew Terranella, MD, FAAP

Dr. Terranella is a medical epidemiologist in the Division of Overdose Prevention at the CDC’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. His area of research focus is on improving access to treatment for substance use disorder and harm reduction programs in young adults and adolescents as well as serving as subject matter expert for the Division on tribal health. He is also a board-certified pediatrician, is on faculty in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Arizona-Tucson, and practices general pediatrics and adolescent medicine at El Rio Health in Tucson, Arizona. His clinical practice is centered around addiction medicine and transgender care.
Dr. Terranella received his BA in Biology from Kalamazoo College in Michigan, attended Medical School at the University of Virginia, and received an MPH from Emory University. He trained in Pediatrics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Jacobi Hospital in the Bronx, NY in 2007 and completed an Epidemic Intelligence Service Fellowship at the CDC in 2012. Prior to coming to CDC, he served 14 years with Indian Health Service as a pediatrician and health care administrator on the Navajo and Tohono O’odham Nations and most recently as the Chief Medical Officer for the Portland Area Indian Health Service. He currently lives in Tucson, AZ with his wife Julia, son Luciano, and dog Valentino.