Director of Substance Use Research
San Francisco Dept of Public Health
Phillip Coffin, MD, MIA, is a board-certified, practicing internist, infectious disease, and addiction medicine specialist, including inpatient and outpatient care. Dr Coffin also directs the Center on Substance Use and Health, where he conducts and oversees clinical trials addressing therapies for substance use disorders and prevention or treatment of overdose, HIV, and viral hepatitis; observational studies addressing substance use and the shifting climate of opioid prescribing; local substance use epidemiology; and programmatic efforts to improve opioid management in clinical care.