UCSF Psychiatry in the Central Valley
Housed at the UCSF Fresno Medical Education and Research Building, the Department of Psychiatry has a group of 14 core faculty, 27 affiliate teaching faculty, and four support staff members. Our faculty are located at a number of institutions in Fresno, including Community Regional Medical Center (CRMC), the Fresno VA Medical Center, Fresno County Mental Health Services and Kaiser Permanente.
The department has an ACGME-accredited, four-year psychiatry residency with a class size of four per year, with recent approval to increase to six per year (directed by Craig Campbell, MD). One of our PG-2 residents, Mary Gable, MD, was a May 2015 recipient of an APA Resident Leadership Recognition Award.
The department also has an accredited psychosomatic medicine fellowship (directed by Hoyle Leigh, MD), and is in the process of developing a forensic psychiatry fellowship program in partnership with Atascadero State Hospital. In 2014, Andrew Goddard, MD, was recruited from Indiana University Medical Center in Indianapolis to take over as the new department chief from outgoing chief Scott Ahles, MD. An important ongoing connection between the campuses in San Francisco and Fresno is the UCSF Visiting Professors Program, which funds local presentations by UCSF School of Medicine faculty (including recent and greatly appreciated talks by Christina Mangurian, MD, and Carol Mathews, MD).
Over the last few years, our department has successfully rolled out two new clinical psychiatry programs: the CRMC-Ambulatory Care Center (ACC) Integrated Care program (headed by Shawn Hersevoort, MD) and the newly renovated University Centers of Excellence Psychiatry Clinic, led by Craig Campbell, MD. Ongoing specialist services within our department include the CRMC child consultation service (headed by Karen Kraus, MD) and the UCSF Fresno Alzheimer’s Disease Center, a unique consultation and educational service in the Central Valley which became affiliated with the department earlier this year, directed by faculty neurologist Loren Alving, MD.
New departmental scholarly and research initiatives include the May 1 hiring of UCSF Fresno Psychiatry Office & Research Manager Barb Price, RN. In addition, one of our senior residents, Nisha Ramsinghani, DO, and faculty member Hoyle Leigh, MD, just presented their scholarly work at the 2015 American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting in Toronto to great reviews. Hani Khouzam, MD, one of our VA-based faculty, is about to give a poster presentation to the Stanford Neurosciences Forum. Dr. Hersevoort is also the recipient of a 2015 UCSF Education Innovations grant which will enable him to measure the educational and service impact of his ACC integrated care program. In April 2015, Dr. Goddard received a UCSF Fresno pilot grant to study the role of orexin neuronal overactivity in panic disorder.
