Michael Hoefer, MD
Associate Professor
Psychiatry
School of Medicine

Dr. Hoefer is a board-certified addiction psychiatrist with more than 15 years of experience as a clinician, researcher, and educator in the field of addiction psychiatry. He completed his psychiatric residency training at the University of California, San Francisco and his addiction psychiatry fellowship at Yale University.

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He served as the medical director of the San Francisco VA Opioid Treatment Program and Program Director of the UCSF Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship for 8 years. He now works as a psychiatric consultant for the San Francisco VA Medical Center and helps coordinate national addiction education efforts throughout the VA system. He is also the area director for CA, AK, HI for the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry. He has interests and expertise in motivational interviewing, psychopharmacology, drug testing, and psychiatric education

Education & Training

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• Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship Yale University 07/2014
• Psychiatry Residency University of California, San Francisco 07/2013

Interests

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• benzodiazepine withdrawal
• opioid use disorder
• psychopharmacology
• Clinical drug testing
• addiction psychiatry
• stimulant use disorder

Websites

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• UCSF Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship (psych.ucsf.edu)
• UCSF Addiction Psychiatry Bootcamp (youtube.com)

Videos

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• Video (youtube.com)

Publications (6)

Top publication keywords:
IndolesAlcohol AbstinenceBuprenorphineNarcotic AntagonistsAlcoholismFearSubstance Withdrawal SyndromePrescription Drug MisuseHippocampusLisurideDopamine AgonistsAcetylcarnitineMethamphetamineNaloxoneOpioid-Related Disorders

• Prescription drug monitoring programs and buprenorphine maintenance: clinical considerations.
  The American journal on addictions 2014 Hoefer M, Petrakis I
• Genetic and behavioral determinants of hippocampal volume recovery during abstinence from alcohol.
  Alcohol (Fayetteville, N.Y.) 2014 Hoefer ME, Pennington DL, Durazzo TC, Mon A, Abé C, Truran D, Hutchison KE, Meyerhoff DJ
• Metabolic abnormalities in lobar and subcortical brain regions of abstinent polysubstance users: magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging.
  Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire) 2013 Abé C, Mon A, Hoefer ME, Durazzo TC, Pennington DL, Schmidt TP, Meyerhoff DJ
• Fear conditioning in frontotemporal lobar degeneration and Alzheimer's disease.
  Brain : a journal of neurology 2008 Hoefer M, Allison SC, Schauer GF, Neuhaus JM, Hall J, Dang JN, Weiner MW, Miller BL, Rosen HJ
• Effects of terguride, ropinirole, and acetyl-L-carnitine on methamphetamine withdrawal in the rat.
  Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior 2006 Hoefer ME, Voskanian SJ, Koob GF, Pulvirenti L
• Unlimited access to heroin self-administration: independent motivational markers of opiate dependence.
  Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology 2006 Chen SA, O'Dell LE, Hoefer ME, Greenwell TN, Zorrilla EP, Koob GF