Vita (Sullivan) McCabe, MD, MHSA

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Dr. McCabe is a University of Chicago Medical School alumna and former cardiothoracic surgeon. She
shifted her career focus after retiring due to physical health issues in 2015. With a master’s degree in
health management and policy from the University of Michigan School of Public Health, her expertise
now spans physician systems change, impairment and resilience and is deeply influenced by her own
personal journey with physical disability that affected her career as a surgeon and family history of
addiction.

Dr. McCabe has made notable and significant contributions, including serving on the Illinois State
Medical Board’s Impairment Council and chairing Michigan’s Health Provider Assistance Committee,
which is the oversight body for the Health Professionals Recovery Program serving 25 health professional
boards.

Dr. McCabe embraced her passion for mental health, completing her Psychiatry residency and addiction
Psychiatry fellowship at the University of Michigan. She joined Michigan Medicine faculty in Addiction
Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine in 2024. Her professional duties include caring for health care
providers with substance use disorders, inpatient complex addiction consults as well as leadership of University of Michigan
Addiction Clinical Services and coordinating the service line for addiction in an interdisciplinary way.
Her research centers on trajectories of substance use disorders and the intersection with ADHD. She
currently serves as the President-Elect of the Michigan Society of Addiction Medicine

Substance Use Disorders (especially trajectories and the intersection with ADHD)
Popularion Health and the Quadruple Aim via Systems Change
Healthcare Provider Impairment and Well Being
Tobacco Use Disorders and Smoking Cessation
Lung Cancer Screening