Dr. DeVine began his Family Medicine career in a rural community in central Minnesota in 1990. After 25 years of full spectrum Family Medicine, his career path was forever changed in 2015 after developing a rural clinic and community model to address opioid prescribing and lack of access to Medication for Opioid Use Disorder. MDH funding has allowed this model to be implemented in 16 other Minnesota communities. In 2018, a weekly opioid/addiction telehealth teaching program through Project ECHO started bringing weekly addiction information to rural community providers in an effort to improve care to patients with substance use disorders. Similar projects were launched to target Medical and PA students that were in programs that emphasized care to rural and underserved communities and continues to be facilitated by Dr. DeVine and a colleague. Grant funding for these programs and now new projects are currently managed through Stratis Health, for whom Dr. DeVine works as a subject matter expert on grants relating to rural addiction care, opioid prescribing and addiction care in correctional facilities. Additional grant work at CentraCare includes a CDC/MDH grant to improve access to MOUD in the ED, and improve patient retention and access to treatment providers.

He has also been involved at the state level regarding opioid issues, serving on the Opioid Prescribing Work Group to develop state guidelines, and was part of the DHS Pain Waiver Advisory Panel. Currently he is Co-Chair of the MDH Task Force for Pregnancy and Substance Use Disorders, and starting this fall will be on the Task Force on Holistic and Effective Responses to Illicit Drug Use through the State Office of Addiction and Recovery as the MMA representative. Dr. DeVine’s passion to care for and improve access to addiction treatment motivated him to achieve board certification in Addiction Medicine in 2020. In 2022, he joined CentraCare in St. Cloud and currently sees patients in the Addiction Medicine Clinic, while also serving as the Medical Director of CentraCare Addiction Services.

Past awards related to this work include the American Hospital Association Nova Award, the 2020 Minnesota Medical Association Presidents Award and the 2021 Family Physician of the Year Award.