Andrew A. Herring, MD, is an attending emergency physician at Highland Hospital Alameda Health System in Oakland, California, and a clinical instructor at UCSF. He graduated from Harvard Medical School in 2008 and is board certified in addiction medicine. Herring conducts research on non-opioid pain management approaches in the emergency department, and teaches nationally on integrating ultrasound-guided regional anesthesia and interventional pain procedures into a practical approach to emergency pain management. He is a member of the American Academy of Pain Medicine’s advisory panel on acute pain medicine. Herring is leading a series of pilots funded by the California Health Care Foundation to launch provision of medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorder in emergency settings.