Joshua Blum, MD

Dr. Blum is the Program Manager of the Denver Health HIV Primary Care Clinic, a Ryan White-funded
clinic serving low income clients living with HIV/AIDS. He also provides HIV and general primary care to
patients in the Denver City and County jails, and medication-assisted treatment to patients with opioid
use disorders in Denver Health’s outpatient behavioral health services department.

He established and served as the first physician manager of the Intensive Outpatient Clinic, a high
intensity primary care clinic aimed at caring for Denver Health’s sickest and highest-utilizing patients. Dr.
Blum is an institutional quality officer and leads initiatives on pain and opioid management at Denver
Health, and currently oversees a federal grant for expanding medication-assisted treatment in the
Denver Health primary care clinics. He is the co-chair of the Provider Education Workgroup at the
Colorado Consortium for Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention.

As a general internist caring for high-risk populations, his interests include the diagnosis and treatment
of HIV and Hepatitis C, chronic pain syndromes, opioid management, mental health, and substance
abuse. He is a frequent speaker on pain management, opioids, and substance abuse.