Kenneth Saffier, MD, FASAM

Medical Director - Contra Costa & Solano Counties

Medical Director – Contra Costa & Solano Counties

Kenneth Saffier, MD, FASAM has been the Bi-Bett Medical Director since 2018, is a family physician with Contra Costa Regional Medical Center’s Family Medicine Residency and specializes in addiction medicine and chronic pain management. He is board-certified in family and addiction medicine. Dr. Saffier graduated from SUNY at Stony Brook School of Medicine and completed his residency at Chicago’s Cook County Hospital. In 2008, he completed a faculty development fellowship at USC’s Division of Medical Education and is a clinical professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at UC San Francisco medical school.

He is the president of the Medical Education and Research Foundation for the Treatment of Addiction, a 501c(3) organization designed to integrate addiction medicine into residency curricula and primary care medical practices. (www.merfweb.org)

Dr. Saffier has been a Member of Motivational Interviewing (MI) Network of Trainers since 2012 and has provided over 50 MI training sessions including workshops at national conferences including the American Society of Addiction Medicine and the California Society of Addiction Annual conferences. In addition to sessions on MI, he teaches topics in addiction medicine and has partnered in the presentation of multiple educational workshops.

Dr. Saffier is also an active mentor in the Providers Clinical Support System for Medication Assisted Therapies and for 8 years has conducted SAMHSA approved buprenorphine waiver training on local, regional, state and at national conferences.