Joshua J. Fenton MD MPH
Professor, Family & Community Medicine, UC, Davis School of Medicine
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4860 Y StAcc 1600Sacramento, CA 95817
Phone+1 916-734-3630
Fax+1 916-734-5550
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Education & Training
University of WashingtonFellowship, 2002 - 2004
University of California (San Francisco)Residency, Family Medicine, 1996 - 1999- University of California San Francisco School of MedicineClass of 1996
Certifications & Licensure
CA State Medical License 1997 - 2027
WA State Medical License 2002 - 2007
American Board of Family Medicine Family Medicine
Awards, Honors, & Recognition
- CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification EpicCare Ambulatory EMR, Epic Systems Corporation, 2011-2012
Clinical Trials
- Promoting Patient-Centered Counseling to Reduce Inappropriate Diagnostic Tests Start of enrollment: 2013 Apr 01
- Watchful Waiting as a Strategy for Reducing Low-value Spinal Imaging Start of enrollment: 2020 Oct 21
Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- Predictors of Incident Benzodiazepine Co-prescription Among Patients Prescribed Long-term Opioids.Iraklis Erik Tseregounis, Stephen G Henry, Shao-You Fang, Susan Stewart, Alicia Agnoli
Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2025-07-16 - Facilitators and barriers to deferring imaging for acute low back pain: a qualitative study.Carly A Robinson, Melissa M Gosdin, Camille S Cipri, Ilona Fridman, Gary Weinberg
BMC Primary Care. 2025-07-02 - 1 citationsTransportation Insecurity and Outcomes in Hemodialysis Patients: A Retrospective Cohort Study.Na'amah Razon, Yi Zhang, Bethney Bonilla-Herrera, Lorien S Dalrymple, Amanda Stennett
Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 2025-06-13
Journal Articles
- Patient Characteristics Associated with Making Requests During Primary Care VisitsJoshua J Fenton, Anthony Jerant, Richard L Kravitz, Elizabeth M Magnan, Journal of The American Board of Family Medicine
Press Mentions
Effort to Stop Primary Care Providers from Ordering Low-Value Imaging Hits Brick WallNovember 7th, 2024- CDC Grant to Study Risks of Combined Use of Opioids and ‘Benzos’September 28th, 2022
- Opioid Tapering Tied to Overdose, Withdrawal, Mental Health Risks for up to Two YearsJune 29th, 2022
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Grant Support
- CE24-012 - Rigorous Evaluation of California Policies to Disseminate Emergency Department-based Services for Opioid Use DisorderUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS2024–2027
- RFA-CE-22-011: Patterns and trajectories associated with overdose in patients co-prescribed opioids and benzodiazepinesUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS2022–2025
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