Over time, these subtle and, sometimes, not so subtle slights can lead to everything from poor sleep to low self esteem and even depression.
UCSF Psychiatry News
UCSF faculty, trainees, and fellows headed to New York for the 2024 APA Annual Meeting
May 01, 2024
The 176th Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) will be held Saturday, May 4–Wednesday, May 8, 2024, at New York's Jacob K. Javits Convention Center and numerous current and former UCSF Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences faculty members and trainees will be in attendance.
In memoriam: Gary Humfleet, PhD
April 15, 2024
Gary Humfleet, PhD, passed away peacefully on April 11, 2024, surrounded by family and friends, after a long battle with cancer. He was nationally known for his work in smoking cessation clinical trials, particularly related to health disparities, treatment of chronic smokers, and those with co-occurring disorders.
Leon named 2024 Krevans Award recipient
April 03, 2024
First-year psychiatry resident Jacqueline Leon, MD, MPH, been selected as the recipient of the 2024 PGY-1 Krevans Award by her peers and faculty members at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center (ZSFG).
UCSF scientists build a molecular ‘GPS’ to guide cell therapies
April 02, 2024
The ideal therapy for a disease works exclusively at the site of the disease, but when it comes to the brain—which is wrapped in a protective barrier and contains thousands of different cell types—this ideal is very hard to achieve.
Seritan receives Exceptional Physician Award
April 01, 2024
DPBS faculty member Andreea L. Seritan, MD, has been recognized with a 2023-2024 UCSF Health Exceptional Physician Award for delivering world-class patient care and embodying the organization's PRIDE Values
UCSF Adult Psychiatry Residency Training Program welcomes 16 into its Class of 2028
March 15, 2024
The UC San Francisco Adult Psychiatry Residency Training Program (RTP) revealed that it will welcome a full class of 16 new resident physicians into its Class of 2028 following the announcement of the National Resident Matching Program's 2024 Main Residency Match results.
How Daylight Saving Time impacts your sleep—and what to do about it
March 06, 2024
Springing forward an hour leaves Americans so groggy that car accidents and heart attacks spike on ‘Sleepy Monday.’ Here are four tips to avoid it.
Four selected as 2024 Grand Rounds Trainee Research Award honorees
February 26, 2024
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
Are body temperature and depression linked? Science says, yes.
February 05, 2024
New study may support heat-based treatment to stimulate self-cooling as new treatment.