Dr. Michelle Geier graduated from University of Washington School of Pharmacy and completed a pharmacy practice PGY1 residency at the VA Puget Sound and a psychiatric pharmacy PGY2 residency at University of California San Francisco/San Francisco Department of Public Health. She began working with the San Francisco Department of Public Health Behavioral Health Service (SFDPH BHS) as a psychiatric and substance use disorders clinical pharmacist in 2012. In her current practice, she provides ambulatory care psychiatric services in a public health specialty mental health clinic. Some of the projects she has worked on include naloxone prescribing by pharmacists, deprescribing sedative-hypnotics and initiating buprenorphine in high risk areas with transitions to outpatient (including jail, inpatient and the emergency department).