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Sarah Messmer

Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine and Pediatrics

College of Medicine

Contact

Office Phone:

815-276-7579

About

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.