Geoff Capraro |
Assistant Professor/Attending Physician – Brown University
Geoff Capraro, MD, MPH is a practicing Brown Emergency Medicine physician who wants to bring the power of emergency antidotes to the public. He is actively working on opioid overdose prevention through his founding of NaloxBox, his engagement in the naloxone work group of RI Governor Raimondo’s Overdose Prevention and Intervention Task Force, and his research on the detection of impending overdose. He values his deep collaborations in these efforts, and gladly serves as a mentor for Brown and RI programs in entrepreneurship and innovation including Brown’s Breakthrough Laboratory, Brown medical school’s Scholarly Concentration Program, and the Social Enterprise Greenhouse. He is working with his department and Brown Physicians Inc. to build a more diverse health provider workforce.