Andrew A. Herring, MD

Dr. Andrew A Herring graduated Bowdoin College and graduated from Harvard Medical School then completed residency in emergency medicine at Highland General Hospital—Alameda Health System in Oakland, CA where he is Chief of Addiction Medicine overseeing inpatient addiction services, emergency department based services, an outpatient addiction medicine clinic and a regional substance use disorder telemedicine hotline. Dr. Herring is board certified in Pain Medicine and the past Medical Director of the Alameda Health System Functional Restoration Pain Clinic. Dr Herring has led national efforts to transform hospital-based care for substance use disorders and his work has been featured in local and national press including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times and National Public Radio. Dr. Herring co-founded CA BRIDGE and the Bridge Center at the Public Health Institute. Dr. Herring’s research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) and has been published in numerous journals including JAMA Open and Annals of Emergency Medicine. Dr. Herring leads several NIDA supported clinical trials and is principal investigator for the Public Health Institute CA Bridge Outcomes Study. He was a Fulbright Scholar in Central America focused on supporting migrant health and co-founded the Street Level Health Project in Oakland, California that is dedicated to supporting undocumented day laborers. Dr. Herring is board-certified in Emergency Medicine, and Addiction Medicine, and Pain Medicine and is an Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of California, San Francisco.