Connie Hsaio
Biography
Dr. Hsaio is an Assistant Professor (Clinical Scholar track) in the Depts. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences (DPBN) and Internal Medicine at WSU SOM. She holds an Adjunct appointment in the Dept. of Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine. Dr. Hsaio earned her M.D. from Rutgers New Jersey Medical School and completed her residency training in combined Internal Medicine/Psychiatry at Tulane University School of Medicine, where she was a chief resident and graduated with Distinction in Primary Care. She completed her fellowship training in Addiction Psychiatry at Yale New Haven Hospital, where she was also a scholar in the Research in Addiction Medicine Scholars (RAMS) program. At Yale, she also completed a research fellowship (T32 DA007238) and was an Instructor in the Dept. of Psychiatry before joining faculty at WSU SOM in 2025.
Dr. Hsaio is interested in issues of addiction at the intersection of medicine and psychiatry. Her research focuses on sleep health among patients with opioid use disorder (OUD). She plans to study the effectiveness of interventions to improve sleep health and secondary outcomes related to substance use, medical and psychiatric comorbidities and quality of life. She also intends to improve screening, diagnosis, and treatment of sleep disorders such as sleep-disordered breathing and restless legs syndrome among patients with OUD.
Dr. Hsaio has a longstanding interest in addressing health disparities, especially for individuals living with serious mental illness and substance use disorders. She is currently building a program to expand buprenorphine prescribing in a primary care setting. Her clinical work also spans HIV collaborative care, consultation-liaison psychiatry, and a federally certified opioid treatment program.
Outside of work, Dr. Hsaio loves spending time with her Woodbridge community, listening and dancing to Detroit techno, and rooting for Michigan football (Go Blue!).
Education training
- M.D., Rutgers Medical School
- Residency, Internal Medicine/Psychiatry, Tulane School of Medicine
- Addiction Psychiatry Fellow, Yale New Haven Hospital
- Scholar, Research in Addition Medicine Scholars Program
- Research Fellow, T32 DA007238, Yale University
Clinical/research interests
- Substance addiction
- Sleep health
- Opioid use disorder (OUD)
- HIV collaborative care
- Consultation-liaison psychiatry