Our Addiction Medicine Fellows
2024-2025
Stephanie Clavijo, MD MPH
Mike Levy, MD
Chance Najera, MD
Asmi Panigrahi, MD MPH
Sarah Rosenwohl-Mack, MD
2023-2024
Sarah Burbank, MD
Jonny Callan, MD
Alejandro Castellanos, MD
Dymon Morgan, MD
Simone Vais, MD
2022-2023
Sam Lee, MD
Amy Liang, MD
Stephen Matzat, MD
Ekene Ojukwu, MD, MSc
Nicole Tantoco, MD, MPH
2021-2022
Meredith Adamo, MD
Theora Cimino, MD
Michelle Lough, MD, MPH
Surabhi Nirkhe, MD
Gigi Simmons, MD
2020-2021
Elizabeth Abbs, MD
Ayesha Appa, MD
Katrina Ciraldo, MD
Trevor Lee, MD
2019-2020
Sarah Leyde, MD
Nicky Mehtani, MD MPH
Jesse Ristau, MD
2018-2019
Triveni Defries, MD MPH
Christy Soran, MD MPH
2017-2018
Jamie Carter, MD MPH
Hannah Snyder, MD
Examples of Fellow Projects:
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Low barrier buprenorphine treatment for persons experiencing homelessness and injecting heroin in San Francisco (Jamie Carter)
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Support for Hospital Opioid Use Treatment (Project SHOUT) (Hannah Snyder)
- Clinical consultation for patients on chronic opioid therapy with concerning behaviors (Christy Soran)
- Clinician’s guide to buprenorphine treatment (Triveni Defries)
- Contingency management for patients with methamphetamine-associated cardiomyopathy in a novel addiction and cardiology co-management clinic (Sarah Leyde, Elizabeth Abbs, Meredith Adamo)
- Pilot of an addiction medicine boot camp for hospitalists (Jesse Ristau)
- Understanding barriers to buprenorphine access among people leaving San Francisco jails (Nicky Mehtani)
- Clinical outcomes of patients who inject drugs with serious staphylococcal infections (Ayesha Appa, Meredith Adamo)
- Implementation of a managed alcohol program during the COVID19 pandemic in San Francisco (Jesse Ristau, Nicky Mehtani)
- Homeless deaths in SIP (Shelter-in-Place) sites during the COVID19 pandemic (Elizabeth Abbs, Trevor Lee)
- Team-Based care for pregnant people with severe substance use disorder(s) (Katrina Ciraldo)
- Road Home, What Now? The Effects of Transitional Housing on mental health, substance use and chronic medical condition on justice-seeking individuals in the Tenderloin (Gigi Simmons)
- Developing an Anti-Stigma and Harm Reduction Training for Primary Care Staff: A Crucial Step in Addressing the Overdose Crisis (Surabhi Nirkhe)
- Perspectives of Psychedelic Medications as Treatment for Substance Use Disorder Among People Experiencing Homelessness (Theora Cimino)
- Cross-disciplinary advocacy for undocumented individuals with substance use disorder in legal/deportation proceedings (Michelle Lough)
- Development of a hospital-wide protocol for rapid methadone titrations in severe fentanyl use disorder (Meredith Adamo)
- Immigrants and Substance Use Disorders: A Legal and Medical Perspective (Michelle Lough, Triveni Defries)