Ellen Herbst, MD
Professor
Psychiatry
School of Medicine

Awards

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• Board Certified, Addiction Medicine, American Board of Preventive Medicine, 2019
• Board Certified, General Psychiatry, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, 2007

Education & Training

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• Residency School of Medicine - Psychiatry University of California, San Francisco 2006
• MD Medicine Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University 2002
• BA English Literature Brown University 1997
• Visiting Scholar English Literature Oxford University 1996

Websites

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• Profile at UCSF Department of Psychiatry (psych.ucsf.edu)

Publications (19)

Top publication keywords:
Smoking CessationCannabisFructoseMobile ApplicationsPerformance-Enhancing SubstancesPrescriptionsBuprenorphineSmokersTransgender PersonsVeteransTranssexualismCentral Nervous System StimulantsStress Disorders, Post-TraumaticTobacco Use DisorderAlcohol-Related Disorders

• N-acetylcysteine for smoking cessation among dual users of tobacco and cannabis: Protocol and rationale for a randomized controlled trial.
  Contemporary clinical trials 2023 Herbst ED, Pennington DL, Borsari B, Manuel J, Yalch M, Alcid E, Martinez Rivas M, Delacruz J, Rossi N, Garcia B, Wong N, Batki SL
• Effects of buprenorphine on opioid craving in comparison to other medications for opioid use disorder: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials.
  Addictive behaviors 2022 Baxley C, Borsari B, Reavis JV, Manuel JK, Herbst E, Becker W, Pennington D, Batki SL, Seal K
• Correction to: The Climate Change and Mental Health Task Force: One Academic Psychiatry Department's Efforts to Heed the Call to Action.
  Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry 2022 Seritan AL, Hasser C, Burke MG, Bussmann GL, Charlesworth A, Cooper R, Fortuna LR, Herbst ED, Jayaratne A, Richards A, Stuart BK, Epel E
• The Climate Change and Mental Health Task Force: One Academic Psychiatry Department's Efforts to Heed the Call to Action.
  Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry 2022 Seritan AL, Hasser C, Burke MG, Bussmann GL, Charlesworth A, Cooper R, Fortuna LR, Herbst ED, Jayaratne A, Richards A, Stuart BK, Epel E
• Which Emergent Medication Should I Give Next? Repeated Use of Emergent Medications to Treat Acute Agitation.
  Frontiers in psychiatry 2021 Searles Quick VB, Herbst ED, Kalapatapu RK

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• E-Cigarette Use and Perceptions Among Veterans Receiving Outpatient Treatment in Veterans Affairs Substance Use and Mental Health Clinics.
  Military medicine 2021 Dixit D, Herbst E, Das S
• Case Report: Buprenorphine Induction Using Transdermal Buprenorphine in a Veteran With Opioid Use Disorder and Psychosis, Managing Precipitated Withdrawal.
  Military medicine 2020 Kinasz KR, Herbst ED, Kalapatapu RK
• A randomized pilot trial of topiramate for alcohol use disorder in veterans with traumatic brain injury: Effects on alcohol use, cognition, and post-concussive symptoms.
  Drug and alcohol dependence 2020 Pennington DL, Bielenberg J, Lasher B, Herbst E, Abrams G, Novakovic-Agopian T, Batki SL
• Care of the Transgender Patient.
  Annals of internal medicine 2019 Herbst ED, Harris E, Pennington DL, Batki SL
• An emotion regulation-focused theoretical framework for co-occurring nicotine addiction and PTSD: Comments on existing treatments and future directions.
  Cogent Medicine 2018 Chia-Ying Chou, Ellen Herbst, Marylene Cloitre, Janice Y. Tsoh
• Supporting Veteran Transitions to the Academic Setting: VA on Campus.
  Community College Journal of Research and Practice 2018 Ashley O’Connor, Ellen Herbst, Shannon McCaslin, Keith Armstrong, Bridget Leach, Brandina Jersky
• Deployment Anxiety Reduction Training: A Pilot Study of Acceptability and Feasibility in Current or Recent Active Duty Service Members.
  Military medicine 2018 McCaslin SE, Herbst ED, Armitage NH, Allen I, Neylan T, Becket-Davenport C, Choucroun G, Best S, Inslicht SS
• Mobile Technology for Treatment Augmentation in Veteran Smokers With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.
  American journal of preventive medicine 2017 Herbst E, Pennington D, Kuhn E, McCaslin SE, Delucchi K, Batki SL, Dickter B, Carmody T
• Prescriptions Filled Following an Opioid-Related Hospitalization.
  Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) 2017 Herbst E, Zaman T, Rife T
• Use of Stimulants and Performance Enhancers During and After Trauma Exposure in a Combat Veteran: A Possible Risk Factor for Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms.
  The American journal of psychiatry 2017 Herbst E, McCaslin S, Kalapatapu RK
• Smoking and non-alcohol substance use in veterans with PTSD and alcohol use disorder.
  Drug and Alcohol Dependence 2015 Steven L. Batki, David Pennington, Brooke Lasher, Ellen Herbst, Emily Schrodek, Seghel Yohannes, Jordan McDonald, Brandi Schmeling, Tiffany Wong
• Topiramate treatment of alcohol use disorder in veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder: a randomized controlled pilot trial.
  Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research 2014 Batki SL, Pennington DL, Lasher B, Neylan TC, Metzler T, Waldrop A, Delucchi K, Herbst E
• Cocaethylene formation following ethanol and cocaine administration by different routes.
  Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology 2011 Herbst ED, Harris DS, Everhart ET, Mendelson J, Jacob P, Jones RT
• Adaptation effects to sleep studies in participants with and without chronic posttraumatic stress disorder.
  Psychophysiology 2010 Herbst E, Metzler TJ, Lenoci M, McCaslin SE, Inslicht S, Marmar CR, Neylan TC