SharonA.AbramowitzMD

Addiction, Psychosomatic Medicine, Integrative Psychiatry

Integrative Mental Health & Addiction Med Private Practice; Academy Integrative Health & Medicine Faculty; Motivational Interviewing Trainer; CSAM Board Member

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Oakland, CA 94611
Phone+1 415-689-9184

Summary

I'm a psychiatrist faculty member of Highland Hospital's internal medicine primary care residency and their Director of Behavioral and Addiction Medicine. I also began the first US premed health coach project. I have a San Francisco & East Bay integrative psychiatry, addiction medicine and psychotherapy practice. I'm also on the California Society of Addiction Medicine executive council, and have chaired their annual meetings and am chair of their Integration & Access to Systems of Care Committee. I'm a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers, and am a part of the Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine's first fellowship.

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A San Francisco / East Bay integrated psychiatry & psychotherapy practice

Education & Training

Academy of Integrative Health and MedicineFellowship, Integrative Medicine, 2016
University of California (San Francisco)Residency, Psychiatry, 1988
University of California (San Francisco)Internship, Psychiatry, 1983 - 1984
University of California, Davis, School of MedicineClass of 1983

Certifications & Licensure

CA State Medical License 1984 - 2026
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology Psychiatry
American Board of Preventive Medicine Addiction Medicine
American Board of Addiction Medicine

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

Humanist Medicine Award Division of Primary Care Medicine, Alameda Health System, 2006
Award for Exceptional Psychotherapeutic Skill & Unusual Concern for the Welfare of Patients UCSF Dept of Psychiatry, 1988

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

24 citations
Lessons From the West Africa Ebola Epidemic: A Systematic Review of Epidemiological and Social and Behavioral Science Research Priorities
Sharon Abramowitz, David B Hipgrave, Alison Witchard, David L Heymann
The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 2018-10-20
16 citations
Community-based reports of morbidity, mortality, and health-seeking behaviours in four Monrovia communities during the West African Ebola epidemic
Kristen E. McLean, Sharon Abramowitz, Jacob D. Ball, Josephine Monger, Kodjo Tehoungue
Global Public Health. 2018-05-01
28 citations
Correction: Community-centered responses to Ebola in urban Liberia: the view from below.
Sharon Abramowitz, Kristen E. McLean, Sarah L. McKune, Kevin Bardosh, Mosoka Fallah
Plos Neglected Tropical Diseases. 2015-05-07

Journal Articles

Integrative Addiction Medicine: What Exactly Is It?
Abramowitz, S, San Francisco Medicine: Addiction Medicine, 7/2015

Books/Book Chapters

Chronic Pain and Addiction
Chapter: Mindfulness
S. AbramowitzEditors: ASAM.Oxford University Press2016
Therapists on the Front Line
Chapter: The psychodynamics of AIDS: a view from self psychology
S. Abramowitz and J. CohenEditors: Abramowitz S, Cohen J.American Psychiatric Press1994

Abstracts/Posters

Web Based Motivational Interviewing Training to Improve Residents' Confidence in Counseling Obese Patients About Weight Loss
J. Sladek, D. Flattery, S. Abramowitz, o Society of General Internal Medicine Regional Meeting, Stanford University, 1/2013
Premed Health Coaching: Promising Impact on the Primary Care Pipeline?
N. White & S. Abramowitz, o American College of Physicians regional meeting, UCSF, 1/1/2010

Lectures

Motivational Interviewing Trainings
Multiple healthcare orgs
PCP Training on Substance Use Disorders
Partnership Health Plan - 1/2016
Empathy Training for Hospitalists
o Sutter-Health Eden Medical Center, Castro Valley - 2015
Integrative Addiction Medicine: What is it? What is the Evidence?
Calif Society of Addiction Medicine, State of the Art Course, Plenary - 2015
Self-Management Support: Helping Patients Help Themselves
Calif Society of Addiction Medicine, State of the Art Course, Plenary - 2013
Health Effects of Violence Workshop (co-leader)
Society of General Internal Medicine - 2007
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