Title: Health Sciences Clinical Professor of Psychiatry; Director, Young Adult and Family Center
Education:
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, MD
Postgraduate Training:
Pediatric Internship, Bronx Lebanon Hospital Psychiatry Residency, University of California, San Francisco
Biography Summary:
Dr. Norman joined the UCSF faculty as the Assistant Director of the Inpatient Adolescent Psychiatry Service at the Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute in 1981. He has been an attending physician in the outpatient departments at Langley Porter for twenty-eight years focusing much of his practice on developing innovative clinical programs for adolescents and young adults. In July 2004, Dr. Norman established the Young Adult and Family Center at UCSF that includes the Eating Disorders Clinic, the Dialectical Behavioral Therapy Program, the Intensive Family Therapy Program, the Adolescent Assessment Clinic, and the Consultation Liaison program between Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and the Department of Pediatrics’ Adolescent Medicine Program.
Dr. Norman volunteers as a faculty preceptor in the UCSF Medical Student Homeless Health Project where for the past eighteen years he has co-facilitated a weekly support group with medical students at the Fifth and Bryant homeless shelter. He and his students also established and run a smoking cessation program for homeless men, women and teens.
Dr. Norman has received numerous teaching awards, including the prestigious Henry J Kaiser Award for Clinical Teaching. He has been nominated by UCSF medical students to receive an American Association of Medical Colleges award for Humanism in Medicine. In 2001, Dr. Norman was honored to present the White Coat Ceremony keynote speech to incoming medical students. He is included in each edition of Best Doctors in America and America’s Top Doctors.
Dr. Norman will dedicate the remainder of his career to leading and expanding the Young Adult and Family Center at UCSF. He, and the other physicians, psychologists, social workers and researchers working with him, aspire to build a center of national prominence where troubled young people and their families receive the best available clinical care, irrespective of their ability to pay. Families and teachers will be supported and informed. Innovative clinical treatment methods will be developed and introduced to clinicians in the larger community. A $5,000,000 gift from the Helen and Charles Schwab Foundation provides the anchor endowment for this effort and ensures its sustainability.
Clinical Expertise:
Eating disorders, substance abuse/dual diagnosis, treatment of adolescents, young adults and families, CBT, DBT, IPT, PTSD, and dynamic psychotherapy.
Educational Expertise:
Eating disorders, treatment of adolescents, young adults and families, CBT, DBT.
Research Areas:
The Young Adult and Family Center is investigating parental efficacy as a treatment outcome of family therapy. In addition, the Center is working to establish an innovative e-therapeutics program using technology to make health care more accessible to teenagers and young adults.
Administrative Assistant: Elizabeth Cobbs - Contact Information
Campus Location: Parnassus
Publications on PubMed »
Adolescent Assessment ClinicConsultation and Brief Intervention ServiceCoping with Depression ProgramDBT-A ProgramEating Disorder ProgramIntensive Family Therapy ClinicThe Young Adult and Family CenterChild and Adolescent Psychiatry ResidencyChristina Vega, YAFC Program Administrator