SFMS Member Appointed Newest San Francisco Health Commissioner September 10, 2014 News, SFMS Member San Francisco Health Commission, David Pating 0 David Pating, MD, an SFMS board member and chief of addiction medicine at Kaiser San Francisco, was appointed and sworn in as a member of the San Francisco Health Commission by Mayor Ed Lee. The Health Commission oversees all activities of the health services of the City and County of San Francisco, including the Department of Public Health and San Francisco General Hospital. Dr. Pating joins SFMS past-President Edward Chow, MD, Commission President, and his nomination was strongly endorsed by the SFMS. Dr. Pating, an Assistant Clinical Professor in Psychiatry at UCSF and vice-chair of the California Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission, has been a guest editor of the SFMS journal San Francisco Medicine, and president of the California Society of Addiction Medicine, among many other positions and contributions. Comments are closed.
