Sarah Messmer
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine and Pediatrics
College of Medicine
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Areas of Expertise
- Adolescents
- Adults
- Alternative Pain Management
- Children
- Chronic pain
- Community-based solutions
- Criminal justice
- Curriculum development
- Heroin
- Infants
- Injection drug use
- Interprofessional collaborations
- Medication-assisted treatment (MAT)
- MAT waiver training
- Naloxone
- Neonatal abstinence syndrome
- Older adults
- Patients
- Prescribing
- Prevention
- Primary care
- Students
- Treatment
Research Currently in Progress
1. Developing OUD education and waiver training
Category: Education & Training
Source of Funding: SAMHSA
Just got a SAMHSA grant to develop OUD education and waiver training at the med school and residency levels. Working with Nicole Gastala.
2. Project STAMINA
Category: Research
Source of Funding: Arnold Foundation
Project STAMINA - co-investigator on a study led by Dennis Watson on enrolling patients in MAT from a syringe exchange (at COIP)
3. Primary care expansion project at COIP
Category: Clinical
Source of Funding: CDPH
Primary care expansion project at COIP - integrating primary care into a syringe exchange, now providing primary care on Mondays and Fridays at the COIP west side site. Working with Dave Jimenez, Stockton Mayer, and others.
4. Decreasing stigma and bias
Category: Research
Source of Funding: IDPH
Study on decreasing stigma and bias in providers for pregnant women who use opioids. Alexis Braverman is the PI, I am a co-investigator.