Maya Vijayaraghavan, MD, MAS
Overview
Dr. Vijayaraghavan is a practicing general internist at the San Francisco General Hospital and a researcher in tobacco control with a focus on populations experiencing homelessness. Dr. Vijayaraghavan's intervention research stems from collaborations with community organizations. As PI of two grants (22XT-0020, 25CP-0002) from the Tobacco Related Disease Research Program, she collaborated with homeless shelters and supportive housing programs to implement interventions to increase access to cessation services and smoke-free policies among homeless clients. As co-investigator (PI Satterfield, DA034253-04) on an implementation and dissemination grant on a randomized controlled trial of computer-facilitated delivery of 5As for smoking cessation, she worked with three diverse primary care clinics to improve provider-delivery of 5As. As co-investigator on a community practice-based research grant from the TRDRP (PI Guydish, 25CP-002) and SFCAN (PI Guydish, an intramural grant), she is collaborating with homeless shelters and safety net health clinics to improve delivery of cessation services to high-risk populations in San Francisco.
Dr. Vijayaraghavan is the Director of the UCSF Smoking Cessation Leadership Center, which reduces disparities in tobacco use and increases cessation through community partnerships by eliminating barriers to access to tobacco treatment, promoting tobacco policy that supports cessation, and providing education and training.
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