Seven join department faculty this week

With the beginning of the new academic year on July 1, seven new faculty members will officially begin their academic appointments with the Department of Psychiatry. Please join us in welcoming this mix of new and familiar faces to our faculty ranks.

Bibhav Acharya, MD, will serve as an Assistant Adjunct Professor, conducting global mental health research and serving as an APC attending at Langley Porter/UCSF Health. He received his medical degree from Yale University and recently finished his psychiatry residency at UCSF. He also completed the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatics’ Certificate Program in Implementation Science, and has served as co-principal investigator of an NIMH-funded R25 project. Acharya is a co-founder and the Executive Director of Shared Minds, a non-profit organization that provides culturally-appropriate, evidence-based clinical training and supervision for clinicians in Nepal, as well as the co-founder of Possible, a non-profit company that has been operating a health delivery system in rural Nepal since 2008. He was the 2014 recipient of the UCSF Thomas N. Burbridge Award for Public Service.

Kelly Koo, PhD, will join the department as an Assistant Adjunct Professor and psychologist with the Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Clinical Team at SFVAMC. She received her doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Washington and has completed multiple postdoctoral fellowships at SFVAMC.

Kathryn Mansuri, MD, will be an Assistant Health Sciences Clinical Professor and work with Acute and Emergency Services at SFGH. She completed her medical training and psychiatry residency at the University of Illinois, and also held a fellowship at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. Mansuri also has previous experience as an instructor at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.

Assistant Adjunct Professor of Neurology Jyoti Mishra, PhD, will be adding a joint appointment in Psychiatry. She holds a PhD in biology with specialization in computational neurobiology from UC San Diego and has served as a faculty member at UCSF since 2013. She is a translational neuroscientist with expertise in attention and learning, brain plasticity, and the neural mechanisms of cognitive function.

Assistant Adjunct Professor of Neurology Jennifer Mitchell, PhD, will begin a joint appointment in the Department of Psychiatry. She received her PhD in neuroscience from UCSF and joined the Department of Neurology’s faculty in 2006. As a member of the Fields Lab, she has specialized in the neural mechanisms responsible for alcohol and drug abuse.

Anna Molofsky, MD, PhD, will join the department faculty as an Assistant Professor in Residence and basic neuroscientist. She received her MD and PhD in cell and molecular biology from the University of Michigan, then conducted her psychiatry residency at UCSF before serving as a postdoctoral fellow in the Rowitch Lab. Molofsky has received an NIH Mentored Clinical Scientist Research Career Development Award, and recently was awarded a 2015 Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award for Medical Scientists.

Assistant Professor of Neurology Tatjana Novakovic-Agopian, PhD, will begin a joint adjunct appointment with the department. She earned her doctorate at the California School of Professional Psychology and completed a residency and fellowship in neuropsychology at UCSF. She has served as chair of the Brain Injury Research Committee of the California Pacific Regional Rehabilitation Center and is a past president of the Northern California Neuropsychology Forum. She currently co-directs the program in neurorehabilitation at UCSF Medical Center, SFVAMC, Martinez VAMC and UC Berkeley.