SFIC Executive Director Michael Pappas)

Barry Zevin, MD

Medical Director, Street Medicine and Shelter Health

  San Francisco Department of Public Health

Dr. Barry Zevin is a medical director of Street Medicine and Shelter Health, San Francisco Department of Public Health. He also serves as medical director of SFDPH Transgender Health Services. He has 25 years of experience as a physician delivering healthcare to San Francisco's homeless residents. He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Addiction Medicine. His special interests include healthcare for people experiencing homelessness, comprehensive healthcare for people who use substances, transgender healthcare, HIV and Hepatitis C, and harm reduction addiction medicine. He is Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at University of California San Francisco School of Medicine. Dr. Zevin has provided leadership for many innovative SFDPH projects including the current low barrier buprenorphine project to improve access to treatment for addiction disorders for individuals experiencing homelessness.

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David Pating, MD

Addiction Psychiatry-Substance Use Services

San Francisco Department of Public Health

Associate Clinical Professor - Psychiatry

University of California, San Francisco

David Pating, MD, is an Addiction Psychiatrist with the San Francisco Department of Public Health where he serves as a policy analyst and special projects administrator. Pating is an Associate Clinical Professor at UCSF School of Medicine and past-president of the California Society of Addiction Medicine. He has consulted widely to the National Quality Forum, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, California Legislature and California's Administrative Offices of the Courts. From 2014-2017, he was appointed to the SF Health Commission and chaired its Community and Public Health Committee, prior to joining the city in 2019. In 2018, Pating completed his ordination as a Shin Buddhist minister.