Diana Coffa • UCSF Profiles

Diana Coffa, MD

Title(s)	Professor, Family Community Medicine
School	School of Medicine
Address	2540 23rd Street, #5601 San Francisco CA 94110
Phone	628-206-5324
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Biography

education and training

University of California, San Francisco	M.D.	2006	Medicine
University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco General Hospital	Residency	2009	Family and Community Medicine
University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco General Hospital	Chief Residency	2010	Family and Community Medicine
Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine	Fellowship	2012	Integrative Medicine
University of California, San Francisco, CA		2017	Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training
Amercian Board of Preventative Medicine, Addiction Medicine Certification	Certification	2020	Addiction Medicine

Overview

overview

Position:
Residency Program Director, SFGH UCSF Family and Community Medicine Residency

Core Faculty, UCSF Primary Care Addiction Fellowship

keywords

Family systems approach to health, Social determinants of health, Substance use disorders in primary care, Substance use disorders in pregnant people and families, Chronic pain, Psychosocial approaches to pain, Group visits, Integrative medicine, Meaning in medicine, Resident education

webpage

	Family Medicine Residency at SFGH
	Primary Care Research Fellowship
	Primary Care Addiction Medicine Fellowship
	Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship

Bibliographic

selected publications

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Promoting Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Anti-oppression (DEIA). Graduate Medical Education in Family Medicine. 2025 Mar 30; 2:219-230. Coffa CD, Day DK, Jackson JR, Leung LL, Mahoney MM, Tapia TM, Washington WS. .

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Methadone treatment and patient-directed hospital discharges among patients with opioid use disorder: Observations from general medicine services at an urban, safety-net hospital. Drug Alcohol Depend Rep. 2022 Jun; 3:100066. Tierney HR, Rowe CL, Coffa DA, Sarnaik S, Coffin PO, Snyder HR. PMID: 36845982; PMCID: PMC9949313.

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Inpatient Opioid Use Disorder Treatment by Generalists is Associated With Linkage to Opioid Treatment Programs After Discharge. J Addict Med. 2022 Mar-Apr 01; 16(2):169-176. Tierney HR, Rowe CL, Coffa DA, Sarnaik S, Coffin PO, Snyder HR. PMID: 33813579; PMCID: PMC11624023.

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Sub Substance-Related Disorders
Translation:Humans
Time to ACT: launching an Addiction Care Team (ACT) in an urban safety-net health system. BMJ Open Qual. 2021 01; 10(1). Martin M, Snyder HR, Coffa D, Steiger S, Clement JP, Ranji SR, Azari S, Nguyen OK, Lum PJ. PMID: 33500326; PMCID: PMC7843300.

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Hea Health Services Research
Translation:Humans
UpToDate. Management of acute pain in people who are on medications for opioid use disorder. 2020. Coffa D, Carr D.
UpToDate. Management of acute pain in people who take opioids for chronic pain. 2020. Carr D, Coffa D. .
Opioid Use Disorder: Medical Treatment Options. Am Fam Physician. 2019 10 01; 100(7):416-425. Coffa D, Snyder H. PMID: 31573166.

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Pri Primary Health Care
Translation:Humans PHPublic Health
Structural Iatrogenesis - A 43-Year-Old Man with "Opioid Misuse". N Engl J Med. 2019 Feb 21; 380(8):701-704. Stonington S, Coffa D. PMID: 30786183.

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Med Medicine (General)
Translation:Humans
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Treatment Improvement Protocol Series. Medications for Opioid Use Disorder. 2018.
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Clinical Guidelines. Clinical Guidance for treating pregnant and parenting women with opioid use disorder and their infants. 2018.
First Aid for the Family Medicine Boards. 2017. Le T, Mendoza M, Coffa D.
Acceptability of Naloxone Co-Prescription Among Primary Care Providers Treating Patients on Long-Term Opioid Therapy for Pain. J Gen Intern Med. 2017 Mar; 32(3):291-295. Behar E, Rowe C, Santos GM, Coffa D, Turner C, Santos NC, Coffin PO. PMID: 27815762; PMCID: PMC5331006.

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Int Internal Medicine
Translation:Humans
Nonrandomized Intervention Study of Naloxone Coprescription for Primary Care Patients Receiving Long-Term Opioid Therapy for Pain. Ann Intern Med. 2016 Aug 16; 165(4):245-52. Coffin PO, Behar E, Rowe C, Santos GM, Coffa D, Bald M, Vittinghoff E. PMID: 27366987; PMCID: PMC5783639.

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Int Internal Medicine
Translation:Humans CTClinical Trials
Medical Management of Vulnerable and Underserved Patients. Ed. Kimg T, Wheeler M, Bindman A, Fernandez A, Grumbach K, Schillinger D, Villela T. Caring for ourselves while caring for others. 2016; 532-543. Coffa, D.
Is cannabis use associated with less opioid use among people who inject drugs? Drug Alcohol Depend. 2015 Aug 01; 153:236-41. Kral AH, Wenger L, Novak SP, Chu D, Corsi KF, Coffa D, Shapiro B, Bluthenthal RN. PMID: 26051162; PMCID: PMC4509857.

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Sub Substance-Related Disorders
Translation:Humans
Promethazine use among chronic pain patients. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2015 May 01; 150:92-7. Lynch KL, Shapiro BJ, Coffa D, Novak SP, Kral AH. PMID: 25754939; PMCID: PMC4389782.

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Sub Substance-Related Disorders
Translation:Humans
A Skills-Based Curriculum for Teaching Motivational Interviewing-Enhanced Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) to Medical Residents. MedEdPORTAL. 2015 Jan 1. Azari AS, Ratanawongsa RN, Hettema HJ, Cangelosi CC, Tierney TM, Coffa CD, Shapiro SB, Jain JS, Hersh HD, Manuel MJ, Ciccarone CD, Lum LP. .

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Current Occupational and Environmental Medicine. Management of Chronic Pain. 2014. Coffa, D. Mehling, W.
A primary care approach to substance misuse. Am Fam Physician. 2013 Jul 15; 88(2):113-21. Shapiro B, Coffa D, McCance-Katz EF. PMID: 23939642.

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Pri Primary Health Care
Translation:Humans
First Aid For the Family Medicine Boards. 2012. Tao L, Mendoza M, Coffa D.
A SBIRT curriculum for medical residents: development of a performance feedback tool to build learner confidence. Subst Abus. 2012; 33(3):241-50. Hettema JE, Ratanawongsa N, Manuel JK, Ciccarone D, Coffa D, Jain S, Lum PJ. PMID: 22738001; PMCID: PMC3412302.

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Sub Substance-Related Disorders
Translation:Humans PHPublic Health