Diana Coffa, MD
Professor
Family Community Medicine
School of Medicine

Position: Residency Program Director, SFGH UCSF Family and Community Medicine Residency Core Faculty, UCSF Primary Care Addiction Fellowship

Education & Training

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• Certification Addiction Medicine Amercian Board of Preventative Medicine, Addiction Medicine Certification 2020
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training University of California 2017
• Fellowship Integrative Medicine Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine 2012
• Chief Residency Family and Community Medicine University of California, San Francisco 2010
• Residency Family and Community Medicine University of California, San Francisco 2009
• M.D. Medicine University of California, San Francisco 2006

Interests

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• Group visits
• Meaning in medicine
• Family systems approach to health
• Psychosocial approaches to pain
• Substance use disorders in primary care
• Chronic pain
• Resident education
• Social determinants of health
• Integrative medicine
• Substance use disorders in pregnant people and families

Websites

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• Family Medicine Residency at SFGH (fcm.ucsf.edu)
• Primary Care Research Fellowship (zsfgdgim.ucsf.edu)
• Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship (orthosurgery.ucsf.edu)
• Primary Care Addiction Medicine Fellowship (hividgm.ucsf.edu)

Publications (20)

Top publication keywords:
Arthritis, RheumatoidOpiate Substitution TreatmentIatrogenic DiseaseOpioid-Related DisordersNarcotic AntagonistsSociology, MedicalChronic PainNaltrexoneNaloxonePromethazineDrug and Narcotic ControlAnalgesics, OpioidInsurance, HealthPain ManagementMethadone

• Methadone treatment and patient-directed hospital discharges among patients with opioid use disorder: Observations from general medicine services at an urban, safety-net hospital.
  Drug and alcohol dependence reports 2022 Tierney HR, Rowe CL, Coffa DA, Sarnaik S, Coffin PO, Snyder HR
• Inpatient Opioid Use Disorder Treatment by Generalists is Associated With Linkage to Opioid Treatment Programs After Discharge.
  Journal of addiction medicine 2022 Tierney HR, Rowe CL, Coffa DA, Sarnaik S, Coffin PO, Snyder HR
• Time to ACT: launching an Addiction Care Team (ACT) in an urban safety-net health system.
  BMJ open quality 2021 Martin M, Snyder HR, Coffa D, Steiger S, Clement JP, Ranji SR, Azari S, Nguyen OK, Lum PJ
• UpToDate
  Management of acute pain in people who take opioids for chronic pain 2020 Carr D, Coffa D.
• UpToDate
  Management of acute pain in people who are on medications for opioid use disorder 2020 Coffa D, Carr D

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• Opioid Use Disorder: Medical Treatment Options.
  American family physician 2019 Coffa D, Snyder H
• Structural Iatrogenesis - A 43-Year-Old Man with "Opioid Misuse".
  The New England journal of medicine 2019 Stonington S, Coffa D
• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Clinical Guidelines
  Clinical Guidance for treating pregnant and parenting women with opioid use disorder and their infants 2018
• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Treatment Improvement Protocol Series
  Medications for Opioid Use Disorder 2018
• First Aid for the Family Medicine Boards
  First Aid for the Family Medicine Boards 2017 Le T, Mendoza M, Coffa D
• Acceptability of Naloxone Co-Prescription Among Primary Care Providers Treating Patients on Long-Term Opioid Therapy for Pain.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2016 Behar E, Rowe C, Santos GM, Coffa D, Turner C, Santos NC, Coffin PO
• Nonrandomized Intervention Study of Naloxone Coprescription for Primary Care Patients Receiving Long-Term Opioid Therapy for Pain.
  Annals of internal medicine 2016 Coffin PO, Behar E, Rowe C, Santos GM, Coffa D, Bald M, Vittinghoff E
• Medical Management of Vulnerable and Underserved Patients. Ed. Kimg T, Wheeler M, Bindman A, Fernandez A, Grumbach K, Schillinger D, Villela T
  Caring for ourselves while caring for others 2016 Coffa, D
• Is cannabis use associated with less opioid use among people who inject drugs?
  Drug and alcohol dependence 2015 Kral AH, Wenger L, Novak SP, Chu D, Corsi KF, Coffa D, Shapiro B, Bluthenthal RN
• Promethazine use among chronic pain patients.
  Drug and alcohol dependence 2015 Lynch KL, Shapiro BJ, Coffa D, Novak SP, Kral AH
• A Skills-Based Curriculum for Teaching Motivational Interviewing-Enhanced Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) to Medical Residents.
  MedEdPORTAL 2015 Soraya Azari, Neda Ratanawongsa, Jennifer Hettema, Caroline Cangelosi, Matt Tierney, Diana Coffa, Brad Shapiro, Sharad Jain, David Hersh, Jennifer Manuel, Daniel Ciccarone, Paula Lum
• Current Occupational and Environmental Medicine
  Management of Chronic Pain 2014 Coffa, D. Mehling, W.
• A primary care approach to substance misuse.
  American family physician 2013 Shapiro B, Coffa D, McCance-Katz EF
• First Aid For the Family Medicine Boards
  First Aid For the Family Medicine Boards 2012 Tao L, Mendoza M, Coffa D
• A SBIRT curriculum for medical residents: development of a performance feedback tool to build learner confidence.
  Substance abuse 2012 Hettema JE, Ratanawongsa N, Manuel JK, Ciccarone D, Coffa D, Jain S, Lum PJ