
Executive Director, Health and Human Rights Initiative (HHRI)
UCSF Institute of Global Health Sciences
Triveni DeFries is a physician board-certified in Internal Medicine and Addiction Medicine. She practices primary care and addiction medicine at San Francisco General Hospital and is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine. She is the director of the UCSF Health & Human Rights Initiative in the Institute of Global Health Sciences and co-leads the national Asylum Medicine Training Initiative.
Publications
Intensive Remote Onboarding to Improve Digital Health Access Among Safety-Net Patients During a Pandemic: An Implementation Study.
Telemedicine journal and e-health : the official journal of the American Telemedicine Association
Development of a virtual asylum medicine curriculum: applying a medical education model to a global health priority.
BMJ global health
Facilitators and barriers of alcohol goals for Latinx men hospitalized with alcohol use disorder seen by an Addiction Consult Team.
Annals of medicine
Follow-up and reasons for extended-release naltrexone discontinuation for alcohol use disorder after hospital initiation.
BMJ open quality
Lessons From the Field From a Volunteer Telehealth Ambassador Program to Enhance Video Visits Among Low-Income Patients: Qualitative Improvement Study.
JMIR formative research
Implementing a Trauma-Informed Approach at a Student-Run Clinic for Individuals Seeking Asylum.
Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges
Extended-release naltrexone for people with alcohol use disorder on therapeutic anticoagulation: A case series.
Journal of clinical pharmacy and therapeutics
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
Immigration status matters: the intersectional risk of immigration vulnerability and substance use disorder.
Addiction (Abingdon, England)
Prevalence and Characteristics of Hospitalizations with Unhealthy Alcohol Use in a Safety-Net Hospital from 2016 to 2018.
Journal of general internal medicine
The Social Context of Unhealthy Alcohol Use Among Emergency Department Patients: A Cross Sectional Study.
Journal of addiction medicine
Transition from Oxycodone to Buprenorphine/Naloxone in a Hospitalized Patient with Sickle Cell Disease: A Case Report.
Journal of general internal medicine
Asylum seeker trauma in a student-run clinic: reducing barriers to forensic medical evaluations.
Torture : quarterly journal on rehabilitation of torture victims and prevention of torture
Things We Do for No Reason™: Prescribing Thiamine, Folate and Multivitamins on Discharge for Patients With Alcohol Use Disorder.
Journal of hospital medicine
Clinician experience with telemedicine at a safety-net hospital network during COVID-19: a cross-sectional survey.
Journal of health care for the poor and underserved
Patient interest in and barriers to telemedicine video visits in a multilingual urban safety-net system.
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Things We Do for No Reason™: Discontinuing Buprenorphine When Treating Acute Pain.
Journal of hospital medicine
Nontargeted Diabetes Screening in a Navajo Nation Emergency Department.
American journal of public health
Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia Incidence and Methicillin Resistance in Rural Thailand, 2006-2014.
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene
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
Navigating changing food environments - Transnational perspectives on dietary behaviours and implications for nutrition counselling.
Global public health
Level and change in cognitive test scores predict risk of first stroke.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Spousal smoking and incidence of first stroke: the Health and Retirement Study.
American journal of preventive medicine
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