Triveni Defries, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

Triveni DeFries is a physician board-certified in Internal Medicine and Addiction Medicine. She practices primary care and addiction medicine at San Francisco General Hospital and is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine. She is the director of the UCSF Health & Human Rights Initiative in the Institute of Global Health Sciences and co-leads the national Asylum Medicine Training Initiative.

Education & Training

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• MPH Columbia University
• Addiction Medicine Fellowship UCSF
• Residency UCSF Internal Medicine
• MD UCSF School of Medicine

Interests

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• Addiction Medicine
• Immigrant Health
• Asylum Medicine
• Human Rights
• Primary Care

Websites

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• UCSF Health & Human Rights Initiative/Human Rights Clinic (humanrights.ucsf.edu)
• Posts on X @trivenidef (X.com)

Publications (22)

Top publication keywords:
Delayed-Action PreparationsOpioid-Related DisordersGlobal HealthBuprenorphineAlcoholismStudents, MedicalRefugeesForensic MedicineNaltrexoneThiamine DeficiencyMental Status ScheduleAnemia, Sickle CellTransients and MigrantsCurriculumNarcotic Antagonists

• Immigration status matters: the intersectional risk of immigration vulnerability and substance use disorder.
  Addiction (Abingdon, England) 2022 DeFries T, Kelley J, Martin M, Kimball SL
• Development of a virtual asylum medicine curriculum: applying a medical education model to a global health priority.
  BMJ global health 2025 DeFries T, Emery E, Cuneo CN, Mei E, Folsom E, Mishori R, McKenzie K
• Facilitators and barriers of alcohol goals for Latinx men hospitalized with alcohol use disorder seen by an Addiction Consult Team.
  Annals of medicine 2025 Carson MS, Haro-Ramos AY, López-Solano N, Fernandez C, Cummins M, Fernandez A, DeFries T, Martin M
• Follow-up and reasons for extended-release naltrexone discontinuation for alcohol use disorder after hospital initiation.
  BMJ open quality 2024 Martin M, Seraydarian M, Gasper J, DeFries T
• Lessons From the Field From a Volunteer Telehealth Ambassador Program to Enhance Video Visits Among Low-Income Patients: Qualitative Improvement Study.
  JMIR formative research 2024 Tuot DS, Mukherjee A, Churape A, DeFries T, Su G, Khoong EC, Lyles C

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• Implementing a Trauma-Informed Approach at a Student-Run Clinic for Individuals Seeking Asylum.
  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2023 Jaradeh K, Sergi F, Kivlahan C, Nava Gonzales C, Cury M, DeFries T
• Extended-release naltrexone for people with alcohol use disorder on therapeutic anticoagulation: A case series.
  Journal of clinical pharmacy and therapeutics 2022 Ciraldo K, Seraydarian M, Gasper J, DeFries T, Martin M
• System-Level Factors Associated With Telephone and Video Visit Use: Survey of Safety-Net Clinicians During the Early Phase of the COVID-19 Pandemic.
  JMIR formative research 2022 Sharma AE, Khoong EC, Sierra M, Rivadeneira NA, Nijagal MA, Su G, Lyles CR, DeFries T, Tuot DS, Sarkar U
• Prevalence and Characteristics of Hospitalizations with Unhealthy Alcohol Use in a Safety-Net Hospital from 2016 to 2018.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2022 Martin M, Clement J, Defries T, Makam AN, Nguyen OK
• The Social Context of Unhealthy Alcohol Use Among Emergency Department Patients: A Cross Sectional Study.
  Journal of addiction medicine 2022 Anderson ES, Fraimow-Wong L, Blake R, Batiste K, Liang A, DeFries T, Herring AA, Alter H
• Transition from Oxycodone to Buprenorphine/Naloxone in a Hospitalized Patient with Sickle Cell Disease: A Case Report.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2022 Leyde S, Suen L, Pratt L, DeFries T
• Asylum seeker trauma in a student-run clinic: reducing barriers to forensic medical evaluations.
  Torture : quarterly journal on rehabilitation of torture victims and prevention of torture 2022 Gallagher A, Steiner G, Michel M, Nava Gonzales C, Mendez-Contreras S, Lu A, Armendariz M, DeFries T, Barakat S, Kivlahan C
• Things We Do for No Reason™: Prescribing Thiamine, Folate and Multivitamins on Discharge for Patients With Alcohol Use Disorder.
  Journal of hospital medicine 2021 DeFries T, Leyde S, Haber LA, Martin M
• Clinician experience with telemedicine at a safety-net hospital network during COVID-19: a cross-sectional survey.
  Journal of health care for the poor and underserved 2021 Sharma AE, Khoong EC, Nijagal MA, Lyles CR, Su G, DeFries T, Sarkar U, Tuot D
• Patient interest in and barriers to telemedicine video visits in a multilingual urban safety-net system.
  Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 2021 Khoong EC, Butler BA, Mesina O, Su G, DeFries TB, Nijagal M, Lyles CR
• Things We Do for No Reason™: Discontinuing Buprenorphine When Treating Acute Pain.
  Journal of hospital medicine 2019 Haber LA, DeFries T, Martin M
• Nontargeted Diabetes Screening in a Navajo Nation Emergency Department.
  American journal of public health 2018 Anderson ES, Dworkis DA, DeFries T, Emery E, Deegala C, Mohs K
• Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia Incidence and Methicillin Resistance in Rural Thailand, 2006-2014.
  The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene 2018 Jaganath D, Jorakate P, Makprasert S, Sangwichian O, Akarachotpong T, Thamthitiwat S, Khemla S, DeFries T, Baggett HC, Whistler T, Gregory CJ, Rhodes J
• An inpatient treatment and discharge planning protocol for alcohol dependence: efficacy in reducing 30-day readmissions and emergency department visits.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2014 Wei J, Defries T, Lozada M, Young N, Huen W, Tulsky J
• Navigating changing food environments - Transnational perspectives on dietary behaviours and implications for nutrition counselling.
  Global public health 2012 Handley MA, Robles M, Sanford E, Collins N, Seligman H, Defries T, Perez R, Grieshop J
• Level and change in cognitive test scores predict risk of first stroke.
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2009 DeFries T, Avendaño M, Glymour MM
• Spousal smoking and incidence of first stroke: the Health and Retirement Study.
  American journal of preventive medicine 2008 Glymour MM, Defries TB, Kawachi I, Avendano M