Jared Garrison-Jakel, MD, MPH

After graduating from Pomona College with a BA in neuroscience, UC Berkeley with a masters in public health and UC Irvine School of Medicine, Dr. Garrison-Jakel trained as a family physician at UCSF's Sutter Santa Rosa Family Medicine Residency where he deepened his longstanding commitment to the care of marginalized populations.  After residency he worked as a full-spectrum family physician at the Russian River Health Center where he became a buprenorphine provider in 2014 and in 2015 transitioned into the role of Program Medical Director for Homeless Services, crafting a new primary care access point for unhoused people in rural Sonoma County.  Seeking additional skills to care for

this population, he dove into addiction medicine and primary care psychiatry and was inspired to become board certified in Addiction Medicine.  Discovering their parallel clinical passions, Jared partnered with Dr. Erin Lund to co-found a dedicated addiction medicine rotation at the residency and, building on the success of that effort, actualize their dream of an addiction medicine fellowship program. Throughout this period he has served as the WCHC agency content lead for buprenorphine, MAT and addiction medicine.
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