UCSF Psychiatry News

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. 

A UCSF study is the first to show that child-parent psychotherapy may slow down biological aging in children who have experienced trauma.

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.

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.

Researchers find benefits of sticking with foods that are rich in antioxidant and anti-inflammatory nutrients.

To lead one mentee is plenty of work in itself. To have dozens at UC San Francisco and beyond is something else entirely. That’s the mark Christina Mangurian, MD, MAS, has left on countless lives – and no one knows that better than Lucy Ogbu-Nwobodo, MD, MS, MAS.

For the 10th year in a row, UCSF Medical Center and the UCSF Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences have been recognized as one of the nation's top centers for adult psychiatry in the U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals survey.

Higher inflammation in young adulthood linked to lower performance on processing speed and memory skills tests in midlife.

The UCSF Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences has appointed accomplished clinician-researcher Aric A. Prather, PhD, as the new director of the Center for Health and Community (CHC), a local, regional, and national hub for researchers, practitioners, and policy makers committed to understanding and improving the social, psychological, and behavioral processes that drive health and health equity.

The Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH) has named UC San Francisco physician-scientist Andrew Moses Lee, MD, PhD as one of three new recipients of awards given by the Deeda Blair Research Initiative for Disorders of the Brain.