UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals and the UCSF Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences have been recognized as one of the nation's top providers of pediatric and adolescent behavioral health care in U.S. News & World Report's 2024-2025 Best Children's Hospitals list.
UCSF Psychiatry News
UCSF named to inaugural list of top U.S. pediatric and adolescent behavioral health providers
October 08, 2024
In Memoriam: Miriam Gould, MD
October 04, 2024
Longtime department member, psychiatrist, and community leader Miriam Gould (Shain), MD, has passed away at the age of 99.
Epel and Prather appointed to endowed chairs
October 01, 2024
The UCSF Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences recently announced the appointment of two accomplished faculty members to endowed chair positions by UCSF Chancellor Sam Hawgood, MBBS, and School of Medicine Dean Talmadge E. King, Jr., MD. Both appointments have been bestowed in recognition of the recipients’ outstanding accomplishments and to support future scholarly growth and further excellence across the department’s clinical, research, educational, and public service missions.
UCSF's Abram and Zhu named 2024 BBRF Young Investigator Grant recipients
September 24, 2024
DPBS faculty member Samantha Abram, PhD, and postdoctoral scholar Xiyu Zhu, PhD have been awarded 2024 Young Investigator Grants by the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation (BBRF) in recognition of their work as promising young scientists conducting innovative, cutting-edge neurobiological and psychiatric research.
Klein wins 2024 Postdoc Slam with presentation on breathing, anxiety, and mood
September 23, 2024
With hundreds watching, a nervous Alexandra Klein, PhD, stepped into the spotlight and, pausing, took a deep, cleansing breath. “I already feel much calmer,” the UC San Francisco Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences postdoctoral scholar told an audience at UCSF’s 2024 Postdoc Slam.
Gorrell, Reilly receive inaugural Psychology Early Career Awards
September 23, 2024
Two DPBS faculty psychologists have been selected as the first recipients of a pair of new department awards honoring the achievements of psychologist clinicians and researchers.
28th annual Art for AIDS fundraiser to be held on September 14
August 26, 2024
As the UCSF Alliance Health Project (AHP) celebrates four decades of defying odds, it will host its 2024 Art for AIDS fundraiser on Saturday, Sept. 14, at the UCSF Nancy Friend Pritzker Psychiatry Building. This year, Art for AIDS will honor AHP’s 40th anniversary and showcase 165 contemporary and modern art pieces donated by artists, galleries, and collectors from around the country.
Child-parent therapy has biological benefits for traumatized kids
August 14, 2024
A UCSF study is the first to show that child-parent psychotherapy may slow down biological aging in children who have experienced trauma.
Three named 2024 recipients of the J. Elliot Royer Award for Excellence in Psychiatry
August 07, 2024
Three members of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences—Ana Gonzalez, DO; Lisa Inman, MD; and Daniel Mathalon, PhD, MD—will be awarded the J. Elliot Royer Award for Excellence in Psychiatry.
This 360 degree approach to ADHD is working in local schools
August 05, 2024
More than 40 elementary schools in SFUSD, and 19 in Mexico, use a UCSF program that helps students with attention challenges – and guides their parents and teachers in supporting them.