UCSF Psychiatry News

For the second year in a row, UC San Francisco has been recognized in the top five nationally among psychiatry programs in the U.S. News & World Report survey of best graduate and professional schools.

Four department trainees have been selected to present their scholarship and research at Department of Psychiatry Grand Rounds events later this year as part of a series designed to highlight the work of senior trainees.

Third-year UCSF psychiatry resident Alison Hwong, MD, PhD, was selected by the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry (AAGP) has one of its 2019 AAGP Honors Scholars.

The UC San Francisco Adult Psychiatry Residency Training Program (RTP) has announced its new chief residents for the 2019-2020 academic year.

John Chamberlain, MD, will be awarded the status of Distinguished Fellow by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) at the association’s upcoming annual meeting this May in San Francisco.

Morton (Mort) A. Lieberman, PhD, a renowned psychologist whose career spanned five decades at the University of Chicago and University of California, San Francisco, recently passed away at the age of 87

The University of California, San Francisco Department of Psychiatry will host its 14th annual Robert S. Wallerstein, MD Lectureship in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy on Wednesday, March 27, 2019, from 1:00-4:45 p.m. in Cole Hall Auditorium on the UCSF Parnassus Heights campus.

Four UCSF Psychiatry researchers have been awarded 2018 NARSAD Young Investigator Grants by the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation in recognition of their work as promising young scientists conducting innovative, cutting-edge neurobiological and psychiatric research.

UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland has received a $15 million gift from Lynne and Marc Benioff to address the acute shortage of mental health services for children and adolescents in Oakland and the East Bay, which reflects a nationwide shortage.

Anxiety and depression may be leading predictors of conditions ranging from heart disease and high blood pressure to arthritis, headaches, back pain and stomach upset, having similar effects as long-established risk factors like smoking and obesity, according to the new research.