Diana Coffa

Diana Coffa is a Professor at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine, specializing in Family and Community Medicine. She serves as the Residency Program Director for the UCSF Family and Community Medicine Residency at San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH) and is a Core Faculty member in the UCSF Primary Care Addiction Fellowship program.

• Education: MD from UCSF (2006), Residency in Family and Community Medicine (2009), Chief Residency (2010), Fellowship in Integrative Medicine (2012), and specialized training in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (2017).

Research Interests focus on integrating substance use disorder treatment with primary care, particularly addressing opioid use disorder, chronic pain management, and social determinants of health. Her work emphasizes residency education, group visits, and psychosocial approaches to pain and addiction.

Publications span topics from addiction care team implementation to naloxone coprescription practices, with recent studies on DEIA in medical education and structural iatrogenesis in opioid misuse. Her work appears in journals like BMJ Open Qual, Drug Alcohol Depend Rep, and Am Fam Physician.

Key Contributions:

• Developed the Addiction Care Team (ACT) model in urban safety-net hospitals
• Advocated for naloxone coprescription in chronic pain patients
• Integrated integrative medicine approaches into family practice