Jessica Ristau, MD

Education
2020 - Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Championship Training, University of California, San Francisco
2020 - UCSF Primary Care and Addiction Medicine Fellowship, University of California, San Francisco
2019 - UCSF UCPC Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency, University of California, San Francisco
MD, 2016 - Medical School, Boston University School of Medicine
Publications

  1. Apana NK, Martinez NG, Fraimow-Wong L, Ristau J, Kryzhanovskaya I.. "We Need More General Practitioners Trained in Addiction": Patient Perspectives on Substance Use Disorder Treatment in Primary Care. Substance use & addiction journal 2026. PMID: 41910157


  2. Ristau J, Mehtani N, Gomez S, Nance M, Keller D, Surlyn C, Eveland J, Smith-Bernardin S.. Successful implementation of managed alcohol programs in the San Francisco Bay Area during the COVID-19 crisis. Substance abuse 2021. PMID: 33848451


  3. Mehtani NJ, Ristau JT, Snyder H, Surlyn C, Eveland J, Smith-Bernardin S, Knight KR.. COVID-19: A catalyst for change in telehealth service delivery for opioid use disorder management. Substance abuse 2021. PMID: 33684331


  4. Mehtani NJ, Ristau JT, Eveland J.. COVID-19: Broadening the horizons of U.S. harm reduction practices through managed alcohol programs. Journal of substance abuse treatment 2020. PMID: 33293179


  5. Epstein R, Ristau J, Ellner JJ.. An Unsuspected Zoonotic Infection Presenting as Sepsis. The American journal of medicine 2017. PMID: 28860034


  6. Zhang S, Ristau JT, Trinh HN, Garcia RT, Nguyen HA, Nguyen MH.. Undertreatment of Asian chronic hepatitis B patients on the basis of standard guidelines: a community-based study. Digestive diseases and sciences 2012. PMID: 22466077