(L to R) Sabrina Darrow, PhD; Danielle Ramo, PhD; and Haniel Shen, MD
Sabrina Darrow, PhD, will join the faculty ranks as an Assistant Adjunct Professor and clinician-researcher with the Young Adult and Family Center’s dialectical behavior therapy program. Darrow holds a PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Nevada-Reno and has also completed a fellowship with the UCSF Clinical Services Research Training Program. Since 2013, she has been a postdoctoral fellow in the Program for Genetics and Epidemiology of Neuropsychiatric Symptoms (PGENeS) under the mentorship of Carol Mathews, MD, and served as an affiliate faculty member at the University of San Francisco’s School of Nursing & Health Professionals.
Danielle Ramo, PhD, will continue her appointment as an Assistant Professor in the department, along with new duties in a new faculty position sponsored by the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center focused on policy issues affecting tobacco use, and the impact of novel tobacco product promotion and use on risk perceptions, tobacco use behavior, and its health effects among tobacco users. Ramo currently serves as program faculty and advises fellows and trainees in the San Francisco Treatment Research Center, the Postdoctoral Traineeship in Substance Abuse Treatment and Services Research, the UCSF Helen Diller Comprehensive Cancer Center, and the UCSF Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education. Her research focuses on adolescent and young adult substance abuse, with an emphasis on using social media to help young people change health risk behaviors.
Haniel Shen, MD, is joining the department as an HS Assistant Clinical Professor and an Attending Psychiatrist in the LPPH&C Acute Inpatient Program. Shen is a native New-Yorker who worked as a software developer and high school teacher before attending medical school at the SUNY Downstate College of Medicine. Following a psychiatry residency at Saint Vincent's Hospital in Manhattan, he has held various positions in New York and California, including ACT Team Psychiatrist at Creedmoor State Psychiatric Hospital in Queens, NY, and most recently, Staff Psychiatrist at Atascadero State Hospital in San Luis Obispo. From 2013 to 2014, he was the only full-time Acute Care 5150-Receiving Psychiatrist for San Luis Obispo County, serving a population of approximately 270,000 adults and children.
