San Francisco children living in non-redeveloped public housing are 39 percent more likely to repeatedly visit emergency rooms, according to new research from UC San Francisco and UC Berkeley.
UCSF Psychiatry News
San Francisco public housing type a strong predictor of kids’ use of emergency rooms
December 09, 2014
Hinshaw named 2015 Distinguished Scientist by SSCP
December 08, 2014
Stephen Hinshaw, PhD, the department's Vice Chair for Psychology and a professor at both UC Berkeley and UCSF, has been named as the 2015 recipient of the Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology (SSCP)’s Distinguished Scientist Award.
In Memoriam: Graeme Hanson, MD
December 05, 2014
On Thursday, December 4, our friend and colleague Graeme Hanson, MD, died in San Francisco in the company of friends and family. Graeme was 79 years old at the time of his passing from complications related to pulmonary disease.
Department members to be featured at AAAP's 25th Annual Meeting and Symposium
December 02, 2014
The American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry (AAAP)'s 25th Annual Meeting and Symposium will be held December 4-7, 2014 in Aventura, Florida.
Hung joins School of Medicine GME leadership team
December 01, 2014
RTP Program Director Erick Hung, MD, was named the Director of Curricular Affairs for the School of Medicine-wide UCSF Graduate Medical Education (GME) Program, effective November 1. In his new additional role, Hung will provide leadership for curricular excellence and innovation in GME and for advanced learner assessment at UCSF.
Social and behavioral data provide key info for electronic health records
November 21, 2014
Social and behavioral data provide crucial information about factors that influence health and effectiveness of treatment and should be incorporated into patient electronic health records (EHR), according to a new report from the Institute of Medicine (IOM).
Dozens of genes associated with autism in new research
October 29, 2014
Two major genetic studies of autism, led in part by UC San Francisco scientists and involving more than 50 laboratories worldwide, have newly implicated dozens of genes in the disorder.
In Memoriam: Allison Doupe, MD, PhD
October 27, 2014
With the passing away of Professor Allison Doupe, MD, PhD, on Friday, October 24, of cancer, UCSF and biomedical science have lost a scholar of extraordinary intelligence and erudition and a campus leader. Allison Doupe was a psychiatrist and systems neuroscientist who became a leader of her field, the study of sensorimotor learning and its neural control.
Study first to use brain scans to forecast early reading difficulties
October 01, 2014
UCSF Psychiatry researchers have used brain scans to predict how young children learn to read, giving clinicians a possible tool to spot children with dyslexia and other reading difficulties before they experience reading challenges.
Goddard, Lau, Subramaniam join department faculty
October 01, 2014
The Department of Psychiatry will be welcoming three new faculty members this week
