UCSF Psychiatry News

Jane Czech, MS, MBA, associate chair for finance and administration in the UC San Francisco Departments of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and Neurology, has been selected as one of this year's recipients of the Holly Smith Award for Exceptional Service to the UCSF School of Medicine.

The 177th Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) will be held Saturday, May 17–Wednesday, May 21, 2025, at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Numerous current and former UCSF Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences faculty members and trainees will be in attendance, including the following current UCSF faculty and trainees scheduled to contribute at one or more sessions.

UCSF and SFVAHCS researcher Kristine Yaffe, MD, was one of a select group of global leaders in dementia and cognitive aging invited to participate in a symposium focusing on brain health organized at the request of the late Pope Francis.

Wiki Education recently announced that UC San Francisco Health Sciences Professor Amin Azzam, MD, will lead its inaugural Medical Community Advisory Committee.

A UCSF pilot study finds psilocybin therapy surprises, showing meaningful improvements in mood, cognition, and motor symptoms.

UCSF Health Sciences Associate Clinical Professor Carrie Cunningham, MD, MPH, has been selected as the new director for the Division of Citywide Case Management Programs in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.

Science and mental health meet in a UC San Francisco program where clinicians and researchers learn just as much from high school students as they learn from them. 

First-year psychiatry resident Sahana Kribakaran, MD, PhD, has been selected as the recipient of the 2025 PGY-1 Krevans Award by her peers and faculty members at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center (ZSFG) in recognition of her outstanding clinical skills and dedication to serving vulnerable and underserved patients. She will receive the award at the annual ZSFG Medical Staff Dinner in June.

A study in Neurology, led by Yue Leng, PhD, and Sasha Milton, followed the sleep patterns of 733 older female participants to see if specific patterns of change were associated with a higher risk of dementia. The participants, whose average age was 83, were monitored by wrist devices that track movement and time spent asleep.

The UC San Francisco Adult Psychiatry Residency Training Program (RTP) announced that it will welcome a full cohort of 16 new resident physicians into its Class of 2028 following the release of the National Resident Matching Program's 2025 Main Residency Match results.