Scott Steiger, MD

Professor

Since growing up in southeastern Kansas, Dr. Steiger has moved all over the country for school and jobs, landing on faculty at UCSF in 2012 at the Mt. Zion campus and transitioning to the San Francisco General campus in 2016. Board-certified in both internal medicine and addiction medicine, Dr. Steiger is the Deputy Medical Director of the Opiate Treatment Outpatient Program at SF General, where he also maintains a primary care practice and attends on the inpatient Addiction Care Team. His primary academic interest is in teaching about addiction and its treatments.
Education
Residency, 2008 - Internal Medicine, University of Washington
M.D., 2005 - , Washington University
B.S., 1998 - Biology and History, Duke University
Honors and Awards
  • Excellence in Interprofessional Teaching Award, UCSF Academy of Medical Educators, 2020
  • Best Workshop, Association for Medical Education and Research on Substance Abuse, 2016
  • Fellow, American College of Physicians, 2015
  • Fellow, American Society of Addiction Medicine, 2015
  • Excellence in Teaching Award, UCSF Academy of Medical Educators, 2015
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Publications

  1. Schofield J, Baldacchino AM, Ambekar A, Anaba H, Butner JL, Day N, Ekhtiari H, Elomari F, Ferri M, Kokkolis K, Kouimtsidis C, Levola J, Long J, Martell D, Parker DG, Rahimi-Movaghar A, Siste K, Steiger S, Zonoozi AK, Tay Wee Teck J. Global perspectives on telemedicine-enabled medications for opioid use disorder: Practices, priorities, and barriers. Journal of telemedicine and telecare 2026. PMID: 41564277


  2. Martin M, Baisey T, Skinner S, Ly L, Slown K, Harter K, Nguyen OK, Steiger S, Suen LW. Early Results of Implementing Rapid Methadone Titration for Hospitalized Patients: A Case Series. Journal of general internal medicine 2025. PMID: 39804553


  3. Steiger S, McCuistian C, Suen LW, Shapiro B, Tompkins DA, Bazazi AR. Induction to Methadone 80 mg in the First Week of Treatment of Patients Who Use Fentanyl: A Case Series From an Outpatient Opioid Treatment Program. Journal of addiction medicine 2024. PMID: 39150067


  4. Suen LW, Steiger S, Shapiro B, Castellanos S, Joshi N, Lambdin BH, Knight KR. "Get in and get out, get on with life": Patient and provider perspectives on methadone van implementation for opioid use disorder treatment. The International journal on drug policy 2023. PMID: 37778132


  5. Tierney HR, Takimoto SW, Azari S, Steiger S, Martin M. Predictors of Linkage to an Opioid Treatment Program and Methadone Treatment Retention following Hospital Discharge in a Safety-Net Setting. Substance use & misuse 2023. PMID: 37194561


  6. Buresh M, Nahvi S, Steiger S, Weinstein ZM. Adapting methadone inductions to the fentanyl era. Journal of substance abuse treatment 2022. PMID: 35870437


  7. Checkley L, Steiger S, Knight KR. "I wanted something that was more flexible": A qualitative study of patient preferences on choosing buprenorphine over methadone in a large, safety-net hospital opioid treatment program. 2015 Year Book of Pediatrics. Ed. Cabana MD. (Elsevier; Philadelphia, PA) 2022. PMID: 35112998


  8. Martin M, Snyder HR, Coffa D, Steiger S, Clement JP, Ranji SR, Azari S, Nguyen OK, Lum PJ. Time to ACT: launching an Addiction Care Team (ACT) in an urban safety-net health system. BMJ open quality 2021. PMID: 33500326


  9. Incze MA, Steiger S. What Should I Know About Opioids? JAMA internal medicine 2019. PMID: 30882852


  10. Freise JE, McCarthy EE, Guy M, Steiger S, Sheu L. Increasing Naloxone Co-prescription for Patients on Chronic Opioids: a Student-Led Initiative. Journal of general internal medicine 2018. PMID: 29556799


  11. Bauer SR, Hitchner L, Harrison H, Gerstenberger J, Steiger S. Predictors of higher-risk chronic opioid prescriptions in an academic primary care setting. Substance abuse 2016. PMID: 26848633


  12. Wamsley MA, Steiger S, Julian KA, Gleason N, O'Sullivan PS, Guy M, Satterfield JM. Teaching residents screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT) skills for alcohol use: Using chart-stimulated recall to assess curricular impact. Substance abuse 2015. PMID: 26675123


  13. Satre DD, Manuel JK, Larios S, Steiger S, Satterfield J. Cultural Adaptation of Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment Using Motivational Interviewing. Journal of addiction medicine 2015. PMID: 26428360