Meet Dr. Christopher Kerrigan
Dr. Christopher Kerrigan is double boarded in Internal Medicine and Addiction Medicine and currently practices both. He specializes in patients with Substances Use Disorders as well as Chronic Pain patients who are looking for long term solutions with non-addictive medications and treatments for long term success.
He was born in Los Angeles but his family moved to Massachusetts when he was 3 years old. However he left behind much of his extended family and frequently visited Southern California during his childhood and always dreamed of moving back.
He started his career working in an auto-body shop painting cars before deciding to go to college, although he did well in his studies he always had an appreciation for the blue collar lifestyle and skillset he developed early in his adulthood. He studied physics during his undergraduate, winning numerous awards for research, teaching, and academic abilities and graduating with his BA from the University of Maine in 2007. He then took a position in an HIV research lab at the Ragon Institute of Massachusetts General Hospital, MIT, and Harvard Medical School where he stayed for one year before accepting a position working in drug develop at the non-profit pharmaceutical company Massachusetts Biologics Laboratories of the University of Massachusetts Medical School.
He began his medical training at the Poznan University of Medical Sciences in 2010 where he spent 3 years, then spending his final year of medical training at McGill University in Montreal and a government teaching hospital in Jinja, Uganda earning his MD in 2014. He completed his Internal Medicine Residency at the Billings Clinic in Billings, MT where he graduated top of his class and was accepted as the first ever fellow in Addiction Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in completed his training in 2019.
He then finally moved back to California taking an Attending Position in Addiction Medicine at the Southern California Permanente Medical Group before moving to Ventura to start a practice as well as training programs throughout the County. In 2022 he started the Ventura Street Medicine program treating local homeless populations in conjunction with other community partners on a weekly basis.
He has published numerous journal articles in numerous fields including Addiction, Chronic Pain, and Infectious Diseases and remains double boarded in Internal Medicine and Addiction Medicine actively practicing and teaching both. He is dedicated to advancing the field of Addiction Medicine as well as campaigning for systemic changes to help ensure all people who suffer from Substance Use Disorder have access to evidence based treatments.
In his free time he enjoys beach volleyball and being in the ocean, traveling, and supporting Boston sports.