Matt Tierney, MS, NP, FAAN
Professor
Community Health Systems
School of Nursing

The focus of his work is improving essential addiction treatment delivery locally, regionally and nationally. Matt has extensive clinical experience treating opioid use disorders in under-served populations, and has created and directed numerous novel clinical programs designed to increase access to substance use treatment. With national advanced-practice certifications in Addictions Nursing, Adult Primary Care, and Psychiatric-Mental Health, he has expertise in addressing both individual and systemic factors that are associated with substance use and addiction. He teaches treatment approaches for substance use disorders extensively throughout the UCSF Schools, and he is recognized regionally and nationally as a nurse educator in the treatment of opioid use and other substance use disorders.

• A Focused Screening and Clinical Intervention with Streamlined Outpatient Linkage for Hospitalized Patients with Opioid Use Disorder Experiencing Homelessness.
  Substance abuse : research and treatment 2023 Oreper S, Bond A, Bazinski M, Tierney M, Fang M, Sankaran S, Rambachan A
• Influences on advance practice nursing education to prescribe medications for opioid use disorder.
  Nursing outlook 2023 Phoenix BJ, Tierney M, Chapman SA, Spetz J
• Eliminate the buprenorphine DEA X waiver: Justification using a policy analysis approach.
  Journal of nursing scholarship : an official publication of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing 2023 Jones KF, O'Reilly Jacob M, Spetz J, Hailer L, Tierney M
• Buprenorphine Treatment: Advanced Practice Nurses Add Capacity
  Health Affairs 2022 Spetz, J., Hailer, L., Gay, C., Tierney, M., Schmidt, L. A., Phoenix, B., & Chapman, S. A.
• Emergency Removal of Supervision Requirements for Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioners: A Mixed-Methods Survey.
  Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) 2022 O'Reilly-Jacob M, Tierney M, Freeman P, Perloff J
• Changes in US Clinician Waivers to Prescribe Buprenorphine Management for Opioid Use Disorder During the COVID-19 Pandemic and After Relaxation of Training Requirements.
  JAMA network open 2022 Spetz J, Hailer L, Gay C, Tierney M, Schmidt L, Phoenix B, Chapman S
• Eliminating the buprenorphine DEA X waiver is critical to promote health equity
  Nursing Outlook 2022 Jones, K. F., O'Reilly-Jacob, M., & Tierney, M. (2022).
• Improving Behavioral Health Services in the Time of COVID-19 and Racial Inequities
  NAM Perspectives. Discussion Paper, National Academy of Medicine, Washington, DC. 2021 Shim, R. S., Tierney, M., Rosenzweig, M.H., and Goldman, H.H.
• Don’t “Waive” Goodbye to Education for Opioid Use Disorder
  NAM Perspectives. 2021 Bottner, R., J. Bratberg, M. Martin, M. Weimer, A. Jordan, and M. Tierney
• Stewarding Access to Care: Where We've Been and Where We're Going.
  Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association 2021 Tierney M
• Barriers and Facilitators of Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Participation in Medication Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder: A Mixed Methods Study
  Journal of Nursing Regulation 2021 Spetz, J., Chapman, S., Tierney, M., Phoenix, B., & Hailer, L.
• Secure Your Mask First: The Importance of Self-Care.
  Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association 2021 Tierney M
• The Move Toward Person-Centered Systems of Care.
  Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association 2021 Tierney M
• Person-Centered Mental Health Care Access, Equity, and Justice.
  Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association 2021 Tierney M
• Transforming Mental Health And Addiction Services.
  Health affairs (Project Hope) 2021 Alegría M, Frank RG, Hansen HB, Sharfstein JM, Shim RS, Tierney M
• Improving Access to Care in the Context of Opportunity.
  Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association 2021 Tierney M
• Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurses: Revolutionizing Access to Person-Centered Care.
  Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association 2020 Tierney M
• Empowering Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioners to Expand Treatment Opportunities for Veterans With Opioid Use Disorder.
  Journal of addictions nursing 2020 Jones J, Tierney M, Jacobs G, Chien SY, Mallisham S
• "The Future of Nursing: Accelerating gains made to address the continuum of substance use".
  Archives of psychiatric nursing 2020 Tierney M, Finnell DS, Naegle M, Mitchell AM, Pace EM
• Letter to the Editor.
  Journal of addictions nursing 2020 Tierney M
• Screening gender minority people for harmful alcohol use.
  PloS one 2020 Flentje A, Barger BT, Capriotti MR, Lubensky ME, Tierney M, Obedin-Maliver J, Lunn MR
• Nursing: Addressing substance use in the 21st century.
  Substance abuse 2019 Finnell DS, Tierney M, Mitchell AM
• Nurse Practitioner and Physician Assistant Waivers to Prescribe Buprenorphine and State Scope of Practice Restrictions.
  JAMA 2019 Spetz J, Toretsky C, Chapman S, Phoenix B, Tierney M
• Psychoeducational Strategies During Outpatient Transition to Extended-Release Naltrexone for Patients With Opioid Use Disorder.
  Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association 2018 Zavod A, Akerman SC, Snow MM, Tierney M, Sullivan MA
• Two Different Buprenorphine Treatment Settings With Similar Retention Rates: Implications for Expanding Access to Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder.
  Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association 2018 Tierney M, Melino K, Adeniji A, Shumway M, Allen IE, Waters CM
• "Improving nurses' attitudes toward patients with substance use disorders."
  American Nurse Today 2016 Tierney, Matthew
• A Skills-Based Curriculum for Teaching Motivational Interviewing-Enhanced Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) to Medical Residents
  MedEdPORTAL Publications 2015 Azari S, Ratanawongsa N, Hettema J, Cangelosi C, Tierney M, Coffa D, Shapiro B, Jain S, Hersh D, Manuel J, Ciccarone D, Lum P.
• Advanced Practice Nurses: Increasing Access to Opioid Treatment by Expanding the Pool of Qualified Buprenorphine Prescribers.
  Substance abuse 2015 Tierney M, Finnell DS, Naegle MA, LaBelle C, Gordon AJ
• Buprenorphine diversion and misuse in outpatient practice.
  Journal of addiction medicine 2014 Lofwall MR, Martin J, Tierney M, Fatséas M, Auriacombe M, Lintzeris N
• A nursing diagnostic perspective on proposed criteria for substance use disorders: what the DSM-5 is leaving out.
  Issues in mental health nursing 2012 Phoenix BJ, Tierney MJ