Christanne Coffey

Dr. Christanne Hoffman Coffey grew up in South Carolina and graduated from the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. She completed an Emergency Medicine Residency at UC San Diego, during which time she served as Chief Resident. After residency, she became the inaugural fellow in Wilderness Medicine at UC San Diego. Dr. Coffey is currently an Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine. She also serves as the Wilderness Medicine Fellowship Director and co-director of the EMED 275 wilderness medicine elective and EMED 427 "Medicine in the Wild" wilderness medicine clerkship. She is the chair of the Wilderness Medical Society's Diving and Marine Medicine Committee.  Her interests include wilderness medicine education, travel medicine, survival at sea, diving medicine and extreme sports.

She is the faculty coordinator for Women in Emergency Medicine in the Department of Emergency Medicine and prior Events Coordinator of the Women in Health Sciences Committee.