Jeremy Kourvelas

Jeremy C. Kourvelas has been working in and around the healthcare sector for the past decade. From 2014–2018, Jeremy worked across five emergency departments, seeing first-hand the devastation caused by the rise of fentanyl on both urban and rural Tennessee populations. 

Now, Kourvelas conducts federal and state drug policy analysis and research, leads the statewide SMART Policy Network, hosts and produces the SMART Policy Podcast and manages public relations for the UT SMART Initiative. He also manages special projects such as R.E.M.A.D.E., a recovery-to-work ecosystem asset mapping initiative, as well as SMART’s partnership with Gibson Gives and the Drug Intervention Institute to install overdose reversal first aid stations in music venues across the state.