Jessica Ristau, MD
Assistant Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

Dr. Jessica Ristau, is a primary care doctor and addiction medicine specialist. Dr. Ristau earned her medical degree at Boston University School of Medicine. At UCSF, she completed a residency in internal medicine, followed by a fellowship in addiction medicine based at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center and in partnership with the San Francisco Department of Public Health.

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She is a board certified in Internal Medicine and Addiction Medicine, and is faculty at UCSF. She provides primary care at 1545 Divisadero Street at the Mount Zion Campus, as well as embedded Addiction care within the primary care setting.

Education & Training

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• Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Championship Training University of California, San Francisco 2020
• UCSF Primary Care and Addiction Medicine Fellowship University of California, San Francisco 2020
• UCSF UCPC Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency University of California, San Francisco 2019
• MD Medical School Boston University School of Medicine 2016

Publications (5)

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• Successful implementation of managed alcohol programs in the San Francisco Bay Area during the COVID-19 crisis.
  Substance abuse 2021 Ristau J, Mehtani N, Gomez S, Nance M, Keller D, Surlyn C, Eveland J, Smith-Bernardin S
• COVID-19: A catalyst for change in telehealth service delivery for opioid use disorder management.
  Substance abuse 2021 Mehtani NJ, Ristau JT, Snyder H, Surlyn C, Eveland J, Smith-Bernardin S, Knight KR
• COVID-19: Broadening the horizons of U.S. harm reduction practices through managed alcohol programs.
  Journal of substance abuse treatment 2020 Mehtani NJ, Ristau JT, Eveland J
• An Unsuspected Zoonotic Infection Presenting as Sepsis.
  The American journal of medicine 2017 Epstein R, Ristau J, Ellner JJ
• Undertreatment of Asian chronic hepatitis B patients on the basis of standard guidelines: a community-based study.
  Digestive diseases and sciences 2012 Zhang S, Ristau JT, Trinh HN, Garcia RT, Nguyen HA, Nguyen MH