Triveni Defries, MD, MPH

Affiliated Faculty, LCOE

Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine

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Triveni DeFries, MD MPH, is a general internist and addiction medicine specialist. She is an Assistant Professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine at San Francisco General Hospital, and is and Associate Medical Director of its primary care clinic. She brings experience in asylum medicine and immigrant rights, specifically training on performing forensic evaluations for people seeking asylum in the U.S., and is the co Medical Director of the UCSF Human Rights Clinic.

Publications

Development of a virtual asylum medicine curriculum: applying a medical education model to a global health priority.

BMJ global health

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

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

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

Tuot DS, Mukherjee A, Churape A, DeFries T, Su G, Khoong EC, Lyles C

Implementing a Trauma-Informed Approach at a Student-Run Clinic for Individuals Seeking Asylum.

Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges

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

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 COVID-19.

JMIR formative research

Sharma AE, Khoong EC, Sierra M, Rivadeneira NA, Nijagal MA, Su G, Lyles CR, Defries T, Tuot D, Sarkar U

Immigration status matters: the intersectional risk of immigration vulnerability and substance use disorder.

Addiction (Abingdon, England)

DeFries T, Kelley J, Martin M, Kimball SL

Prevalence and Characteristics of Hospitalizations with Unhealthy Alcohol Use in a Safety-Net Hospital from 2016 to 2018.

Journal of general internal medicine

Martin M, Clement J, Defries T, Makam AN, Nguyen OK

Things We Do for No Reason™: Prescribing Thiamine, Folate and Multivitamins on Discharge for Patients With Alcohol Use Disorder.

Journal of hospital medicine

DeFries T, Leyde S, Haber LA, Martin M

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

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

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

DeFries T, Avendaño M, Glymour MM

Spousal smoking and incidence of first stroke: the Health and Retirement Study.

American journal of preventive medicine

Glymour MM, Defries TB, Kawachi I, Avendano M

Publications

Development of a virtual asylum medicine curriculum: applying a medical education model to a global health priority.

Facilitators and barriers of alcohol goals for Latinx men hospitalized with alcohol use disorder seen by an Addiction Consult Team.

Follow-up and reasons for extended-release naltrexone discontinuation for alcohol use disorder after hospital initiation.

Lessons From the Field From a Volunteer Telehealth Ambassador Program to Enhance Video Visits Among Low-Income Patients: Qualitative Improvement Study.

Implementing a Trauma-Informed Approach at a Student-Run Clinic for Individuals Seeking Asylum.

Extended-release naltrexone for people with alcohol use disorder on therapeutic anticoagulation: A case series.

System-level factors associated with telephone and video visit use: Survey of safety-net clinicians during the early phase of COVID-19.

Immigration status matters: the intersectional risk of immigration vulnerability and substance use disorder.

Prevalence and Characteristics of Hospitalizations with Unhealthy Alcohol Use in a Safety-Net Hospital from 2016 to 2018.

The Social Context of Unhealthy Alcohol Use Among Emergency Department Patients: A Cross Sectional Study.

Transition from Oxycodone to Buprenorphine/Naloxone in a Hospitalized Patient with Sickle Cell Disease: A Case Report.

Asylum seeker trauma in a student-run clinic: reducing barriers to forensic medical evaluations.

Things We Do for No Reason™: Prescribing Thiamine, Folate and Multivitamins on Discharge for Patients With Alcohol Use Disorder.

Clinician experience with telemedicine at a safety-net hospital network during COVID-19: a cross-sectional survey.

Patient interest in and barriers to telemedicine video visits in a multilingual urban safety-net system.

Things We Do for No Reason™: Discontinuing Buprenorphine When Treating Acute Pain.

Nontargeted Diabetes Screening in a Navajo Nation Emergency Department.

Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia Incidence and Methicillin Resistance in Rural Thailand, 2006-2014.

An inpatient treatment and discharge planning protocol for alcohol dependence: efficacy in reducing 30-day readmissions and emergency department visits.

Navigating changing food environments - Transnational perspectives on dietary behaviours and implications for nutrition counselling.

Level and change in cognitive test scores predict risk of first stroke.

Spousal smoking and incidence of first stroke: the Health and Retirement Study.