Dr. Radha Sadacharan is a family medicine physician with a specific focus on justice-involved individuals and individuals with substance use disorders (SUDs). She attended Jefferson Medical College (now Sidney Kimmel Medical College) for medical school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and graduated in 2014. She also obtained her Masters in Public Health from Boston University, completed in 2012. She completed a family medicine residency at Swedish - First Hill in Seattle, WA, in 2017, serving as chief resident from 2016 to 2017. After residency, she completed a NIDA-funded T32 fellowship focused on the intersection of justice involvement, primary care and infectious diseases.
Dr. Sadacharan has been on multiple expert panels for Project ECHO, focused on SUDs and correctional health, and served as a subject matter expert for a recent SUD curriculum and training jointly created by the National Association of Drug Court Professionals and the American Society of Addiction Medicine. Dr. Sadacharan is currently the Statewide Medical Director for the Idaho Department of Corrections, through the medical care provider, Centurion. She continues to be community faculty for the University of Washington Addiction Medicine Fellowship located at the Boise VA, and to host healthcare students for elective rotations at Idaho Department of Corrections.