2025-2026 UCSF Adult Psychiatry Residency Training Program chief residents: (top row, L to R) Jack Berry, MD, PhD; Gabrielle Dressler, MD; Alan Elbaum, MD, MS; and Marysol Encarnación, MD, MSPH; (bottow row, L to R) Nathaniel Jenkins, MD; Margaret Okobi, MD, MPH; and Mimi Yen Li, MD
The UC San Francisco Adult Psychiatry Residency Training Program (RTP) has announced its new chief residents for the upcoming 2025-2026 academic year. Selected by the RTP leadership team and service chiefs, chief residents play an important role in supporting the program's mission of developing leaders in clinical care, research, education, and public policy.
The following residents will begin their appointments on June 1, 2025:
- Jack Berry, MD, PhD – Chief Resident for Research
- Gabrielle Dressler, MD – Chief Resident for Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center
- Alan Elbaum, MD, MS – Chief Resident for Education
- Marysol Encarnación, MD, MSPH — Chief Resident for UCSF Clinical and Community Programs
- Nathaniel Jenkins, MD — Chief Resident for the San Francisco VA Medical Center
- Margaret Okobi, MD, MPH — Chief Resident for the UCSF Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Service
- Mimi Yen Li, MD – Chief Resident for UCSF Clinical and Community Programs
UCSF's RTP is one of the largest general psychiatry residency programs in California and the nation. Its 55 resident physicians receive four years of training in the biological, psychological and socio-cultural aspects of psychiatry at variety of clinical settings across San Francisco and the Bay Area to prepare them for successful careers emphasizing clinical practice, scholarship, teaching, and research.
About UCSF Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
The UCSF Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences 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 focus on providing unparalleled patient care, conducting impactful research, training the next generation of behavioral health leaders, and advancing diversity, health equity, and community across the field.
UCSF Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences conducts its clinical, educational, and research efforts at a variety of locations in Northern California, including the UCSF Nancy Friend Pritzker Psychiatry Building; UCSF Langley Porter Psychiatric Hospital; UCSF Health medical centers and community hospitals across San Francisco; UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals in San Francisco and Oakland; Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center; the San Francisco VA Health Care System; UCSF Fresno; and numerous community-based sites around the San Francisco Bay Area.
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—Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Neurology, 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
The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) is exclusively focused on the health sciences and is dedicated to promoting health worldwide through advanced biomedical research, graduate-level education in the life sciences and health professions, and excellence in patient care. UCSF Health, which serves as UCSF’s primary academic medical center, includes top-ranked specialty hospitals and other clinical programs, and has affiliations throughout the Bay Area.
