Nicky Mehtani, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

Her research explores the potential of psychedelic therapies to address addiction and psychological trauma, with a focus on improving accessibility to these novel therapeutics among medically and socially complex populations who have been disproportionately impacted by the systemic forces that often underlie substance use disorders. She is also a faculty affiliate of UCSF Neuroscape and a Research Scientist at the San Francisco Department of Public Health's (SFDPH) Center on Substance Use and Health.

Clinically, Dr. Mehtani specializes in addiction medicine and HIV. She serves as a primary care provider at the SFDPH Maria X. Martinez Health Resource Center, a low-barrier municipal clinic focused on serving homeless and unstably housed patients in San Francisco, at which she has led the implementation of long-acting injectable antiretroviral medications for HIV treatment and prevention.

• Housing Instability Associated with Return to Stimulant Use among Previously Abstaining Women.
  International journal of environmental research and public health 2023 Mehtani NJ, Chuku CC, Meacham MC, Vittinghoff E, Dilworth SE, Riley ED
• Commentary: Evidence-Informed Recommendation to Achieve Approximate Parity in the Allowed Number of Doses for Common Psychedelics.
  Journal of psychoactive drugs 2023 Thomas KL, Jesse R, Mehtani NJ, Mitchell JM, Anderson BT
• Understanding HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Questions of U.S. Health Care Providers: Unique Perspectives from the PrEPline Clinical Teleconsultation Service.
  Telemedicine journal and e-health : the official journal of the American Telemedicine Association 2022 Saberi P, Mehtani NJ, Sayegh A, Camp CE, Chu C
• Perceptions on navigating ACGME-accredited addiction psychiatry fellowship program websites: A thematic analysis across a race- and gender-diverse pool of potential applicants.
  Substance abuse 2022 Abrams MP, Jackson DS, Aneke-Gratia A, Kohler AE, Mehtani N, Jordan A
• Infectious Diseases Learning Unit: Understanding Advances in the Treatment of Latent Tuberculosis Infection Among People With Human Immunodeficiency Virus.
  Open forum infectious diseases 2021 Mehtani NJ, Puryear S, Pham P, Dooley KE, Shah M
• 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
• Immunogenicity and Safety of the Measles Vaccine in HIV-Infected Children: An Updated Systematic Review.
  American journal of epidemiology 2019 Mehtani NJ, Rosman L, Moss WJ
• Development and Validation of HIV-ASSIST, an Online, Educational, Clinical Decision Support Tool to Guide Patient-Centered ARV Regimen Selection.
  Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) 2019 Maddali MV, Mehtani NJ, Converse C, Kapoor S, Pham P, Li JZ, Shah M
• Elevated highly sensitive C-reactive protein and d-dimer levels are associated with food insecurity among people living with HIV in Pune, India.
  Public health nutrition 2019 Patil S, Kadam D, Mehtani N, Sangle S, Marbaniang I, Kulkarni V, Shere D, Deshpande P, Dhumal G, Suryavanshi N, Gupte N, Bollinger R, DeLuca A, Nevrekar N, Menon P, Kawade R, Patil M, Gupta A, Mave V
• Three Years Post-Affordable Care Act Sexually Transmitted Disease Clinics Remain Critical Among Vulnerable Populations.
  American journal of preventive medicine 2018 Mehtani NJ, Schumacher CM, Johnsen LE, Greenbaum A, Chaulk CP, Ghanem KG, Jennings JM, Page KR
• Continued Importance of Sexually Transmitted Disease Clinics in the Era of the Affordable Care Act.
  American journal of preventive medicine 2016 Mehtani NJ, Schumacher CM, Johnsen LE, Khaldun JS, Chaulk CP, Ghanem KG, Jennings JM, Page KR
• The Shift: When People Become Patients.
  Maryland medicine : MM : a publication of MEDCHI, the Maryland State Medical Society 2016 DesRosiers T, Mehtani N, Gornet M, Zuo SW, Hrdina R, Vandiver AR, Purvis T, LaVigne A, Dichoso T, Towle DW, Staiano P, Kapoor S, Rogers D, Pham A, Lange R, Fan C, Shrock C, Maredia H, Doong J, Song A
• The measuring cup.
  Lancet (London, England) 2013 Mehtani N