UCSF Psychiatry News

Colleagues, friends, and family packed Genentech Hall on the UCSF Mission Bay campus on April 28, 2017, for the inaugural Samuel Barondes Lecture.

A book written in part by UCSF's Benjamin Cheyette, MD, PhD, has been selected by the Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA) as a recipient of a prestigious 2017 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award™.

Psychoanalyst, family therapist, and former Langley Porter resident Samuel Slipp, MD, died on April 24, 2017, at age 92.

First-year psychiatry resident Pedro Duran, MD, has been selected as the recipient of the 2017 PGY-1 Krevans Award by his peers and faculty members at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center.

Legal scholar and mental health advocate Elyn R. Saks, JD, PhD, visited UCSF to talk about her own battle with schizophrenia, and how she eventually found a way to embrace "the three Elyns" with the help of therapy, medication, and supportive colleagues and friends.

Health psychologist and UCSF Professor of Psychiatry Elissa S. Epel, PhD, has been chosen to receive the Alliance on Aging Research's prestigious 2017 Silver Innovator Award for her groundbreaking work.

Young adults get more pleasure from smoking cigarettes while they are drinking alcohol than they do while using marijuana, according to new research conducted at UC San Francisco.

Women enrolled in California’s Medicaid program (Medi-Cal) who have been diagnosed with severe mental illness have been screened for cervical cancer at much lower rates than other women

A new trial may hold new hope for these military personnel through treatment with oxytocin, sometimes referred to as the “love hormone.”

Second-year psychiatry resident Brooke Rosen, MD, has been selected as a 2017-2019 APA/APAF Public Psychiatry Fellow by the American Psychiatric Association (APA).