Education

• Residency: Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center Family Medicine Residency; Phoenix, AZ; 2011-2014
• Internship: Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center Family Medicine Residency; Phoenix, AZ
• Medical School: Doctor of Medicine; University of Arizona College of Medicine; Phoenix, AZ
• Undergraduate: BS in Molecular and Cellular Biology and Bachelor of Music in Saxophone Performance

Publications

• Albrecht SS, Aronowitz SV, Buttenheim AM, Coles S, Dowd JB, Hale L, Kumar A, Leininger L, Ritter AZ, Simanek AM, Whelan CB, Jones M. Lessons Learned From Dear Pandemic, a Social Media-Based Science Communication Project Targeting the COVID-19 Infodemic. Public Health Rep. 2022 Mar 3:333549221076544. doi: 10.1177/00333549221076544. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35238241.
• Coles S, Vosooney A. Evidence Lacking to Support Universal Unhealthy Drug Use Screening. Am Fam Physician. 2021 Jan 15;103(2):72-73. PMID: 33448770.
• Martinez ML, Coles S. Addressing Immunization Health Disparities. Prim Care. 2020 Sep;47(3):483-495. doi: 10.1016/j.pop.2020.05.004. Epub 2020 May 26. PMID: 32718445.
• Tepperberg S, Barnett KG, Fischer J, Johnson M, Coles S, Hines T. Training Toward Our Future: Questions About Length of Training in Family Medicine Programs. Fam Med. 2019;51(8):636-637. https://doi.org/10.22454/FamMed.2019.711802.
• Mitchell, Ron B., Sanford M. Archer, Stacey L. Ishman, Richard M. Rosenfeld, Sarah Coles, Sandra A. Finestone, Norman R. Friedman, et al. “Clinical Practice Guideline: Tonsillectomy in Children (Update).” Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery. 160, no. 1_suppl (February 2019): S1–42. doi:10.1177/0194599818801757.
• Coles S, Stevermer J. Continuing to Choose Wisely: updates to the AAFP Choosing Wisely recommendations.” AFP Community Blog. September 10, 2018. (Electronic publication)
• Denny, LA, Coles S, Blitz R. “Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders.” Am Fam Physician. 2017;96(8):515-522

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