Lee selected to receive 2018 Krevans Award

By Nicholas Roznovsky
 

First-year psychiatry resident Jennifer Lee, MD, has been selected as the recipient of the 2018 PGY-1 Krevans Award in psychiatry by her peers and faculty members at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center (ZSFG) for her outstanding clinical skills and dedication to serving vulnerable and underserved patients. She will receive her award at the annual ZSFG Medical Staff Dinner in June.

Lee is a native San Franciscan who grew up in the city's Richmond district. She attended Washington University in St. Louis, studying anthropology and completing an undergraduate thesis exploring the lived experiences of adolescent mothers in Durban, South Africa. After college, she spent two years as with AmeriCorps at Lifelong Medical Care in Oakland and as a health educator at the Women’s Community Clinic in San Francisco.

She attended medical school at UCLA, where she developed a passion for psychiatry while working with vulnerable and underserved populations in Los Angeles county hospitals. Lee's interests in psychiatry include mental health access for the homeless and marginally housed, reproductive psychiatry, and trauma and its consequences. She also has an interest in structural competency – thinking deeply about the systems that bring patients to our care – and integrating this framework into medical education.

The Krevans Award, named in honor of UCSF's fifth chancellor Julius R. Krevans, MD, is given annually to one intern in each specialty at ZSFG in recognition of "excellence in patient care, as exemplified by clinical competence, professional conduct, compassion for patients and outstanding interaction with all levels of staff, including peers."

Other recent recipients from Psychiatry include Pedro Duran, MD (2017); Brooke Rosen, MD (2016); and Brian Anderson, MD (2015).
 


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The UCSF Department of Psychiatry and the Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute are among the nation's foremost resources in the fields of child, adolescent, adult, and geriatric mental health. Together they constitute one of the largest departments in the UCSF School of Medicine and the UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences, with a mission focused on research (basic, translational, clinical), teaching, patient care and public service.

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