Physician, Internal Medicine & Addiction Medicine
San Francisco Department of Public Health
Cati Crawford, MD is a board-certified Internal Medicine and Addiction Medicine physician with the San Francisco Department of Public Health. She moved to San Francisco in 2019 after completing medical school in New York City, where she championed narrative medicine initiatives and graduated with distinction in medical education for developing curricula focused on resilience and adolescent health. She completed her residency in Internal Medicine Primary Care at the University of California, San Francisco, where she served as Chief Resident and led quality improvement efforts to expand universal communicable disease screening at San Francisco General Hospital.
Dually appointed to the Division of Primary Care and the Division of Whole Person Integrated Care (WPIC), Dr. Crawford provides primary care and addiction medicine services across diverse clinical settings. Her work includes community-based primary care at Potrero Hill Health Center and longitudinal care for people experiencing homelessness through drop-in and shelter-based clinics throughout San Francisco. A dedicated addiction medicine champion, she collaborates on system-level efforts to expand access to evidence-based addiction treatment. She serves as a clinician lead for GLOW, a contingency management program designed to reduce stimulant use and improve engagement in primary care, and for RESTORE, a program connecting unsheltered individuals to intensive case management and treatment for opioid use disorder.
