Longtime UC San Francisco clinician, educator, and researcher Alicia Boccellari, PhD, has been named California State Assembly District 19 Woman of the Year by Assemblymember Phil Ting.
UCSF Psychiatry News
In memoriam: George Fein, PhD
March 21, 2023
Neurobehavioral researcher and longtime UCSF faculty member George Fein, PhD, passed away on February 23, 2023, at the age of 74.
Five DPBS faculty members appointed to endowed positions
March 21, 2023
Five of the UCSF Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences' most highly accomplished faculty members have been appointed to endowed chairs and professorships in recognition of their outstanding accomplishments and to support future scholarly growth.
UCSF Adult Psychiatry Residency Training Program matches 16 for its Class of 2027
March 17, 2023
The UCSF Adult Psychiatry Residency Training Program (RTP) announced that it will welcome a full class of 16 new resident physicians into its Class of 2027.
Ihle to receive UCSF Health Exceptional Physician Award
March 15, 2023
UCSF neuroscientist and psychiatrist Eva C. Ihle, MD, PhD, has been named one of 16 recipients of the UCSF Health Exceptional Physician Award for the 2022-23 academic year.
For anorexia patients, does distress rise with higher caloric intake?
March 15, 2023
A higher-calorie nutrition plan isn’t more distressing for hospitalized teens and young adults with anorexia than a lower-calorie plan, a new study led by UC San Francisco researchers found.
UCSF's Mardi Horowitz to deliver 2023 Wallerstein Lecture on April 12
March 10, 2023
The 17th Robert S. Wallerstein, MD Lectureship in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, featuring UCSF clinician-researcher Mardi Horowitz, MD, will be held on Wednesday, April 12, 2023.
Four early career researchers named 2023 Grand Rounds Trainee Research Award honorees
February 23, 2023
Four early career researchers from the UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences have been selected to present their scholarship and research at Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Grand Rounds events later this spring as part of a series designed to highlight the work of senior trainees at or near the end of their training and help launch their academic careers.
UCSF once again among top 10 nationally in NIH research funding in psychiatry
February 22, 2023
The UCSF Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences retained its position as third among departments at public institutions and 10th among all recipients in psychiatric research grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in fiscal year 2022, according to annual figures released by the independent Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research (BRIMR).
Podcast series about women leading in substance use prevention field features UCSF's Tolou-Shams
February 21, 2023
UCSF's Marina Tolou-Shams, PhD, reflected on her career journey and research agenda on the latest episode of the National Institute of Health’s Women Leading Prevention Science podcast.
