Announcing Amanda Risser as CCC’s New Chief Medical Officer

CCC is pleased to announce the appointment of Amanda Risser, M.D., M.P.H. as the new Chief Medical Officer, CMO.

Dr. Risser joined CCC in 2019 as our Senior Medical Director of Substance Use Disorder Services, leading projects such as CCC’s new 16 x Burnside Recovery Center, a 74-bed residential treatment facility. Dr. Risser is a triple-board certified Family Medicine, Addiction Medicine and Public Health and Preventive Medicine physician. She earned her medical degree at Stanford University and completed her Family Medicine and Public Health Residency Training Programs in Portland at OHSU. After her training, Dr. Risser served as an Assistant Professor of Family Medicine at OHSU for nearly fifteen years before joining CCC.

Over the past six years, Dr. Risser has led most of CCC’s clinician teams and supported the Letty Owings Center, Hooper Detox Stabilization Center and CCC’s infection prevention and outbreak response teams during the COVID pandemic. She helped our community respond to the rise of fentanyl and P2P meth and played a significant role in updating CCC’s withdrawal management protocols and expanding methadone stabilization services at Hooper.

“I love working at CCC and feel so grateful that I get to continue to support the work we do. I love our patients and clients. I’m so proud of what we do,” says Dr. Risser. “I have had the privilege of being part of incredible teams and we’ve had amazing successes together in making care for our patients better, more compassionate, more supportive, and more integrated.”

Dr. Risser has a passion for serving people with substance use disorders, providing full-spectrum adult and women’s healthcare, and supporting pregnant patients and new parents. She is a leader in addiction medicine, and her work has been featured repeatedly in local and national media. She shares a consistent message of kindness and respect, a powerful way to fight the stigma surrounding substance use disorders.

As CMO, Dr. Risser will continue to represent CCC’s clinical teams and services across the region, bringing our vision of integrated, best practices to CCC patients and clients to the next level.