ProfessorMedicine Penny LeGate and Craig Tall Term Professor in Addiction MedicineFaculty Information Biography Education & Training: MDYale University, School of MedicineNew Haven, CT1986–1990 Residency in Internal Medicine, Primary Care TrackUniversity of California San Francisco/San Francisco General HospitalSan Francisco, CA1990–1993 MPHUniversity of Washington, School of Public HealthSeattle, WA1996–1998 Honors: Trench Prize1982 Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program Mentor Award2005 Seattle's Best Doctors, Seattle Magazine2005 Seattle's Best Doctors, Seattle Magazine2010 Seattle's Best Doctors, Seattle Magazine2012 Department of Health and Human Services Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Science and Service Award in Office Based Opioid Treatment2012 Contact Email: joem@uw.edu Research & Clinical Interests Research Interests: Integrating opiate addiction treatment into general medical practice Medical student teaching and mentoring Clinical Interests: Addiction medicine Chronic pain management Publications Publications: Merrill JO, Rhodes LA, Deyo RA, Marlatt AG, Bradley KA. 2002. Mutual mistrust in the medical care of drug users: The keys to the "narc" cabinet. Journal of general internal medicine. 17(5):327–33. Merrill JO, Jackson RT, Schulman BA, Saxon AJ, Awan A, Kapitan S, Carney M, Brumback LC, Donovan D. 2005. Methadone medical maintenance in primary care. An implementation evaluation. Journal of general internal medicine. 20(4):344–9. Banta-Green CJ, Merrill JO, Doyle SR, Boudreau DM, Calsyn DA. 2009. Measurement of opioid problems among chronic pain patients in a general medical population. Drug and alcohol dependence. 104(1–2):43–9. Weisner CM, Campbell CI, Ray TG, Saunders K, Merrill JO, Banta-Green C, Sullivan MD, Silverberg MJ, Mertens JR, Boudreau D, et al. 2009. Trends in prescribed opioid therapy for non-cancer pain for individuals with prior substance use disorders. Pain. 145(3):287–93. Dunn KM, Saunders KW, Rutter CM, Banta-Green CJ, Merrill JO, Sullivan MD, Weisner CM, Silverberg MJ, Campbell CI, Psaty BM, Von Korff M. 2010. Opioid prescriptions for chronic pain and overdose: a cohort study. Annals of internal medicine. 152(2):85–92.
