SorayaAzariMD

Internal Medicine • San Francisco, CA

Addiction Medicine, Preventive Medicine

Assistant Professor, Medicine, UCSF School of Medicine

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Office
1001 Potrero Ave
# 1M3
San Francisco, CA 94110
Phone+1 415-206-8494

Education & Training

University of California (San Francisco)Residency, Internal Medicine, 2007 - 2011
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of PennsylvaniaClass of 2007

Certifications & Licensure

CA State Medical License 2009 - 2026
American Board of Internal Medicine Internal Medicine
American Board of Preventive Medicine Addiction Medicine

Clinical Trials

Computer-Facilitated 5A's for Smoking Cessation in Primary Care Start of enrollment: 2012 Jul 01
Completed
Not Applicable

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

91 citations
A role for conditioned ventral tegmental glutamate release in cocaine seeking.
Zhi-Bing You, Bin Wang, Dawnya Zitzman, Soraya Azari, Roy A. Wise
The Journal of Neuroscience. 2007-09-26
5 citations
Disagreement and Uncertainty Among Experts About how to Respond to Marijuana Use in Patients on Long-term Opioids for Chronic Pain: Results of a Delphi Study
Joanna L. Starrels, Sarah Young, Soraya Azari, William C. Becker, E. Jennifer Edelman
Pain Medicine. 2020-02-01
287 citations
Cocaine Experience Establishes Control of Midbrain Glutamate and Dopamine by Corticotropin-Releasing Factor: A Role in Stress-Induced Relapse to Drug Seeking
Bin Wang, Yavin Shaham, Dawnya Zitzman, Soraya Azari, Roy A. Wise
The Journal of Neuroscience. 2005-06-01

Journal Articles

Stigmatizing Language About Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome
Soraya Azari, MD, JAMA
Correction to: Managing Concerning Behaviors in Patients Prescribed Opioids for Chronic Pain: A Delphi Study
Soraya Azari, Payel Roy, Joanna L Starrels, William C Becker, E Jennifer Edelman, Jessica S Merlin, Jane M Liebschutz, Journal of General Internal Medicine

Press Mentions

For Many, Overcoming Opioid Addiction Means Medication for LifeJuly 15th, 2019
With Cures in Hand, a Major City Tries to Eliminate Hepatitis C — and Build a Model for OthersNovember 14th, 2017
Advocacy for Equity Around Evidence-Based Treatments: Overview and Proceedings of the AMERSA 2023 ConferenceFebruary 4th, 2024