Christy Soran, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine
Christy Soran is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine at San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH). She is a primary care clinician and educator in the Richard Fine People's Clinic at SFGH and the Medical Director at the Outpatient Buprenorphine Induction Clinic (OBIC) through the Division of Substance Use and Addiction Medicine.
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She is a faculty member with the UCSF Internal Medicine San Francisco General Primary Care Residency and UCSF Primary Care Addiction Medicine Fellowship. Her areas of interest are the integration of addiction medicine treatment in primary care, the overlap of substance use and chronic pain, medical curriculum, and educating herself and trainees about patient-empowered clinical care and building trustworthiness in medicine.
Dr. Soran received her undergraduate degree in Political Science and Philosophy at Boston College and a Masters of Public Health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She attended medical school at the University of Pennsylvania. She completed her Internal Medicine residency training in the UCSF San Francisco General Primary Care track followed by a chief resident year as the Internal Medicine Ambulatory Chief Resident. She completed the UCSF Primary Care Addiction Medicine Fellowship.
Awards
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- Gold Humanism Honor Society, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, 2014
- Delta Omega Honorary Society in Public Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2010
Education & Training
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- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training UCSF 2021
- UCSF Primary Care Addiction Medicine Fellowship 2019
- UCSF ZSFG Primary Care Track 2017
- MD University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine 2014
- MPH Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health 2010
Interests
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- Harm Reduction
- Primary Care
- Medical Education
- Substance Use
- Low barrier clinical care
- Chronic Pain
- Opioid Use
Websites
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- UCSF Primary Care Addiction Medicine Fellowship (hividgm.ucsf.edu)
- UCSF SFGH Division of General Internal Medicine (zsfgdgim.ucsf.edu)
- Department of Psychiatry Division of Substance Use and Addiction Medicine (dsaam.org)
- Curbsiders podcast: Learn to Use Buprenorphine for OUD in the clinic (thecurbsiders.com)
Publications (12)
Top publication keywords:
Medical ErrorsEducation, Medical, GraduateTabletsMedical Records Systems, ComputerizedSubstance Withdrawal SyndromeOpiate Substitution TreatmentMassachusettsFentanylOutpatientsOpioid-Related DisordersPharmaciesInternship and ResidencyPractice Patterns, Physicians'BuprenorphineAnalgesics, Opioid
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Withdrawal during outpatient low dose buprenorphine initiation in people who use fentanyl: a retrospective cohort study.
Harm reduction journal 2024 Jones BLH, Geier M, Neuhaus J, Coffin PO, Snyder HR, Soran CS, Knight KR, Suen LW -
Overdose from Unintentional Fentanyl Use when Intending to Use a Non-opioid Substance: An Analysis of Medically Attended Opioid Overdose Events.
Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine 2024 Bazazi AR, Low P, Gomez BO, Snyder H, Hom JK, Soran CS, Zevin B, Mason M, Graterol J, Coffin PO -
The Howard Street Method: A Community Pharmacy-led Low Dose Overlap Buprenorphine Initiation Protocol for Individuals Using Fentanyl.
Journal of addiction medicine 2023 Noel M, Abbs E, Suen L, Samuel L, Dobbins S, Geier M, Soran CS -
The Howard Street Method: A Community Pharmacy-Led Low Dose Overlap Buprenorphine Initiation Protocol for Individuals Using Fentanyl.
Journal of addiction medicine 2023 Noel M, Abbs E, Suen L, Samuel L, Dobbins S, Geier M, Soran CS -
Rapid Overlap Initiation Protocol Using Low Dose Buprenorphine for Opioid Use Disorder Treatment in an Outpatient Setting: A Case Series.
Journal of addiction medicine 2022 Suen LW, Lee TG, Silva M, Walton P, Coffin PO, Geier M, Soran CS
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Identifying Entrustable Professional Activities for Internal Medicine Residents in Ambulatory Continuity Practice.
Journal of general internal medicine 2019 Soran C, Laponis R, Summerville S, Thompson V, Eastburn A, O'Sullivan P, Julian KA -
Are physicians' perceptions of healthcare quality and practice satisfaction affected by errors associated with electronic health record use?
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 2011 Love JS, Wright A, Simon SR, Jenter CA, Soran CS, Volk LA, Bates DW, Poon EG -
Doctors' perceptions of laboratory monitoring in office practice.
Journal of evaluation in clinical practice 2010 Goldman RE, Soran CS, Hayward GL, Simon SR -
Physician attitudes toward health information exchange: results of a statewide survey.
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 2010 Wright A, Soran C, Jenter CA, Volk LA, Bates DW, Simon SR -
Physicians' use of key functions in electronic health records from 2005 to 2007: a statewide survey.
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 2009 Simon SR, Soran CS, Kaushal R, Jenter CA, Volk LA, Burdick E, Cleary PD, Orav EJ, Poon EG, Bates DW -
The relationship between electronic health record use and quality of care over time.
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 2009 Zhou L, Soran CS, Jenter CA, Volk LA, Orav EJ, Bates DW, Simon SR -
Do electronic health records create more errors than they prevent?
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium 2008 Soran CS, Simon SR, Jenter CA, Volk LA, Burdick E, Bates DW, Bates DW, Poon E