By Nicholas Roznovsky
Resident physicians in the UCSF Adult Psychiatry Residency Training Program have chosen 11 department educators to honor for their outstanding commitment and dedication to resident education. Each class of the training program annually awards teachers for their excellence in three domains: clinical teaching, didactic teaching, and mentorship.
This year's awards were revealed at the annual Psychiatry Residents Association Gala on June 10. This year's honorees are:
PGY-1 (Class of 2020) Teaching Awards
- Excellence in Clinical Teaching: Jonathan Nye, MD
- Excellence in Didactic Teaching: Adam Goldyne, MD
- Excellence in Mentoring: Alissa Peterson, MD
PGY-2 (Class of 2019) Teaching Awards
- Excellence in Clinical Teaching: Michael Marcin, MD
- Excellence in Didactic Teaching: David Kan, MD
- Excellence in Mentoring: Michael Marcin, MD
PGY-3 (Class of 2018) Teaching Awards
- Excellence in Clinical Teaching: Emma Samelson-Jones, MD
- Excellence in Didactic Teaching: Adam Goldyne, MD
- Excellence in Mentoring: Alexis Armenakis, MD
PGY-4 (Class of 2017) Teaching Awards
- Excellence in Clinical Teaching: John Chamberlain, MD, and Caitlin Hasser, MD
- Excellence in Didactic Teaching: Tracy Foose, MD
- Excellence in Mentoring: Weston Fisher, MD
About UCSF Psychiatry
The UCSF Department of Psychiatry and the Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute are among the nation's foremost resources in the fields of child, adolescent, adult, and geriatric mental health. Together they constitute one of the largest departments in the UCSF School of Medicine and the UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences, with a mission focused on research (basic, translational, clinical), teaching, patient care and public service.
UCSF Psychiatry conducts its clinical, educational and research efforts at a variety of locations in Northern California, including UCSF campuses at Parnassus Heights, Mission Bay and Laurel Heights, UCSF Medical Center, UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center, the San Francisco VA Health Care System and UCSF Fresno.
About the UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences
The UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences, established by the extraordinary generosity of Joan and Sanford I. "Sandy" Weill, brings together world-class researchers with top-ranked physicians to solve some of the most complex challenges in the human brain.
The UCSF Weill Institute leverages UCSF’s unrivaled bench-to-bedside excellence in the neurosciences. It unites three UCSF departments—Neurology, Psychiatry, and Neurological Surgery—that are highly esteemed for both patient care and research, as well as the Neuroscience Graduate Program, a cross-disciplinary alliance of nearly 100 UCSF faculty members from 15 basic-science departments, as well as the UCSF Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases, a multidisciplinary research center focused on finding effective treatments for Alzheimer’s disease, frontotemporal dementia, Parkinson’s disease, and other neurodegenerative disorders.
About UCSF
UC San Francisco (UCSF) is a leading university dedicated to promoting health worldwide through advanced biomedical research, graduate-level education in the life sciences and health professions, and excellence in patient care. It includes top-ranked graduate schools of dentistry, medicine, nursing and pharmacy; a graduate division with nationally renowned programs in basic, biomedical, translational and population sciences; and a preeminent biomedical research enterprise. It also includes UCSF Health, which comprises top-ranked hospitals – UCSF Medical Center and UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals in San Francisco and Oakland – and other partner and affiliated hospitals and healthcare providers throughout the Bay Area.
