Steven Batki, MD

Professor Emeritus
M_Psychiatry
[email protected]
+1 415 221-4810 ext. 23671

Steven L. Batki, M.D. is Professor of Psychiatry, in Residence, at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine and Chief of the Addiction Recovery Treatment Services and Director of the Addiction Psychiatry Research Program at the San Francisco VA Medical Center (SFVAMC), where he also directs the UCSF Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship Program.

Dr. Batki is engaged in addiction research, training, and clinical services. Dr. Batki’s research and clinical interests include pharmacologic treatment for addiction to alcohol, opioids, and stimulants. His work focuses on psychiatric and medical disorders that co-occur with addiction, such as such as PTSD, traumatic brain injury (TBI), schizophrenia, and HIV/HCV. He has published extensively on clinical research in addiction and co-occurring disorders. He chaired the SAMSHA CSAT Treatment Improvement Protocol No. 37, Substance Abuse Treatment for Persons with HIV/AIDS, and Treatment Improvement Protocol No. 43, Medication-Assisted Treatment for Opioid Dependence.

Dr. Batki's current research is supported by the Department of Defense and NIDA. His DoD projects are examining the effectiveness of pharmacotherapy for alcohol use disorders in veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as well as in veterans with mild traumatic brain injury (TBI). Dr. Batki is also conducting NIDA-funded research on the pharmacotherapy of methamphetamine dependence. Recently completed NIDA and NIAAA work has included the study of hepatitis C treatment in injection drug users and the pharmacological treatment of alcohol dependence in schizophrenia. Prior research has also focused on the treatment of opioid use disorders.

Dr. Batki also serves as Consulting Addiction Psychiatrist to Alta Mira Recovery Programs, a private substance use disorder residential rehabilitation program.

Publications

Rationale and design of a multisite randomized clinical trial examining an integrated behavioral treatment for veterans with co-occurring chronic pain and opioid use disorder: The pain and opioids integrated treatment in veterans (POSITIVE) trial.

Contemporary clinical trials

Vowles KE, Witkiewitz K, Clarke E, Schmidt Z, Borsari B, Edwards KE, Korecki JR, Moniz-Lewis DI, Bondzie JA, Mullins C, Thoreson CI, Delacruz J, Wilkins CH, Nelson S, Delventura J, Henderson R, Katz A, Hua W, Watson E, Baxley C, Canlas BR, Pendleton T, Herbst E, Batki S

Effect of Pharmacogenomic Testing for Drug-Gene Interactions on Medication Selection and Remission of Symptoms in Major Depressive Disorder: The PRIME Care Randomized Clinical Trial.

JAMA

Oslin DW, Lynch KG, Shih MC, Ingram EP, Wray LO, Chapman SR, Kranzler HR, Gelernter J, Pyne JM, Stone A, DuVall SL, Lehmann LS, Thase ME, PRIME Care Research Group, Aslam M, Batki SL, Bjork JM, Blow FC, Brenner LA, Chen P, Desai S, Dieperink EW, Fears SC, Fuller MA, Goodman CS, Graham DP, Haas GL, Hamner MB, Helstrom AW, Hurley RA, Icardi MS, Jurjus GJ, Kilbourne AM, Kreyenbuhl J, Lache DJ, Lieske SP, Lynch JA, Meyer LJ, Montalvo C, Muralidhar S, Ostacher MJ, Paschall GY, Pfeiffer PN, Prieto S, Przygodzki RM, Ranganathan M, Rodriguez-Suarez MM, Roggenkamp H, Schichman SA, Schneeweis JS, Simonetti JA, Steinhauer SR, Suppes T, Umbert MA, Vassy JL, Voora D, Wiechers IR, Wood AE

Fine-scale mapping of a locus for severe bipolar mood disorder on chromosome 18p11.3 in the Costa Rican population.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

McInnes LA, Service SK, Reus VI, Barnes G, Charlat O, Jawahar S, Lewitzky S, Yang Q, Duong Q, Spesny M, Araya C, Araya X, Gallegos A, Meza L, Molina J, Ramirez R, Mendez R, Silva S, Fournier E, Batki SL, Mathews CA, Neylan T, Glatt CE, Escamilla MA, Luo D, Gajiwala P, Song T, Crook S, Nguyen JB, Roche E, Meyer JM, Leon P, Sandkuijl LA, Freimer NB, Chen H