Professor of Medicine
UCSF
Jason M. Satterfield is Director of Behavioral Medicine and Professor of Clinical Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine at the University of California San Francisco. He received his B.S. in brain sciences from MIT and his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Satterfield's current interests include the integration of behavioral science in medical education, dissemination and implementation of evidence-based behavioral practices, and emerging mobile health technologies for behavioral health with a particular focus on smoking and substance use disorders. His current projects include integrated behavioral health models for primary care, screening and brief interventions for substance abuse and tobacco, and the integration of social and behavioral sciences in medical, nursing, and social work schools. He is currently a member of the NIH Social and Behavioral Sciences Curriculum Consortium and a founding member of the NIH Evidence-Based Practice Training Council. He co-authored the AAMC Behavioral Science report and served on the behavioral science subcommittee to create the new MCAT. He evenly divides his time between ongoing patient care, teaching, and health services research.
