Stuart Eisendrath, MD awarded 2009 George Sarlo Prize for Excellence in Teaching

Friday, June 05, 2009

This year, there were a number of deserving candidates for the George Sarlo Prize for Excellence in Teaching. But this is the year to honor Dr. Stuart Eisendrath with this prize. The award is being given to Dr. Eisendrath for his devotion to teaching, for his breadth of educational contributions, for the sheer number of hours he continues to dedicate to supervision and teaching and mentorship, and for being an innovator in training in the outpatient world.

Stuart Eisendrath, MD

 

Dr. Eisendrath earned his medical degree at the Medical College of Wisconsin, before landing in San Francisco for his residency in psychiatry at Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute. That was 34 years ago, and he hasn’t looked east since.

Stu’s commitment to teaching is, simply put, phenomenal. Although in demand in his role as the director of Clinical Services for Langley Porter Psychiatric Hospital and Clinics as well as the director of the UCSF Depression Center, he is a caseload supervisor for third- and fourth-year residents, teaches residents how to do mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for depression in several eight-week long group therapies each academic year, is a small group leader each week for three residents learning interpersonal psychotherapy and another three learning cognitive behavioral therapy, delivers several talks each year in the residency core curriculum, is a team leader in the Adult Psychiatry Clinic where he runs weekly team meetings, directs a Depression Center case review conference two times each month, directs CME courses, actively and effectively mentors junior faculty, and regularly serves as an anchor attending for third-year medical students during their eight-week psychiatry core clerkship. E-value ratings attest that he is, in fact, one of the most highly rated supervisors in our department.


Stu is also committed to public education and has chaired three different series of lectures presented by the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. He also has directed large CME courses on “Psychiatry for Primary Care” and “New Frontiers in Depression Research and Treatment.” The courses have been extremely well-organized, well-received, and successful.

In addition to Stu’s clinical work and multiple educational endeavors, this year, Stu received an R01 to conduct a randomized controlled trial that will assess the impact of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy on treatment-resistant depression.

I am extremely proud of the tremendous impact that Stu Eisendrath has had on our department, and it gives me great pleasure to recognize him with this year’s highest departmental teaching honor, the George Sarlo Prize for Excellence in Teaching.

Renee L. Binder, MD

Interim Chair, Department of Psychiatry