This year's American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting will be held at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.
The 178th Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) will be held Saturday, May 16–Wednesday, May 20, 2026, at San Francisco's George R. Moscone Convention Center, marking the organization's first gathering in the Bay Area since 2023. 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:
Saturday, May 16
- Chase Anderson, MD, MS (presenter) – Psychiatry Misinformation and Social Media: Empowering the Psychiatric Workforce to Protect Our Communities (1:30–3:00 p.m., Room 308)
- Richard Bermudes, MD (presenter) – Antipsychotic Weight Gain in SMI: Integrating GLP1 Receptor Agonists Into Your Clinical Practice (1:30–3:00 p.m., Room 204)
- Anthony Daggett, MD, PhD (presenter) – Mastering the Art and Science of Treating Borderline Personality Disorder (1:30–5:30 p.m., Room 155)
- Dan H. Karasic, MD (chair); Jack Turban, MD, MHS (presenter) – Transgender Care: Update on Evidence Base and Clinical Practice of Primary Care Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Adult Psychiatry (8:30–10:00 a.m., Room 201)
- Victor Reus, MD (presenter) – Applying APA Practice Guidelines to the Real World: Benefits and Barriers to Evidence-Based Care (3:45–5:15 p.m., Room 209)
- Stacy Sterling, DrPH, MSW, MPH (presenter) – Integrating Care Improving Outcomes: Alcohol Care Reimagined (1:30–3:00 p.m., Room 210)
- Jack Turban, MD, MHS (presenter) – Reimagining the Future of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: Technology AI and Innovation in Mental Health Practice (1:30–3:00 p.m., Room 206)
Sunday, May 17
- Richard Bermudes, MD (chair) – Clinical Applications for Psychiatric Practice: Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Ketamine and Esketamine (8:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m., Room 154)
- Robin Cooper, MD (chair) – Empowering Psychiatrists to Utilize Artificial Intelligence Sustainably: Balancing the Good the Bad and the (Environmentally) Ugly (3:45–5:15 p.m., Room 303)
- Jeffrey DeVido, MD (chair) – Addiction Psychopharmacology (8:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m., Room 160)
- Bryan H. King, MD, MBA (chair) – Autism: Bridging Past to Future (3:45–5:15 p.m., Room 307)
- Bryan H. King, MD, MBA (discussant) – Beyond Childhood: Diagnosis and Care for Autistic Adults in Psychiatric Practice (8:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m., Room 153)
- Andrew Moses Lee, MD, PhD (presenter) – Decoding OCD: Diagnostic Dilemmas and Emerging Treatments in OCD (1:30–3:00 p.m., Rooms 207/215)
- Christina Mangurian, MD, MAS (honoree/presenter) – 2026 Simon Bolivar Award: Reimagining Academic Medicine to Ensure That All Faculty Thrive: A Focus on Policies to Support Caregivers (10:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m., Room 105)
- Karthik Sarma, MD, PhD (presenter) – What's New in AI and Mental Health: Research Engagement and Safety (10:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m., Room 213)
- Balazs Szigeti, PhD (presenter) – Reconceptualizing Placebo and Nocebo Effects in Psychiatry (3:45–5:15 p.m., Room 206)
- Raymond Zablotny, MD (presenter) – The Golden Gate Bridge Barrier: A New Beginning (10:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m., Room 312)
- Farah Zaidi, MD (presenter) – Mixed Features in Persons with Depressive and Bipolar Disorder: Historical Conceptual Nosological and Clinical Implications (3:45–5:15 p.m., Rooms 207/215)
Monday, May 18
- Danielle Chammas, MD (presenter) – Death Anxiety in Serious Illness: Clinical Insights for Psychiatry (8:30–10:00 a.m., Room 306)
- Adam Gazzaley, MD, PhD (presenter) – A New Era of Experiential Medicine: Cognitive Enhancement Technologies (3:45–5:15 p.m., Room 213)
- Lucy Ogbu-Nwobodo, MD (presenter) – Liberatory Alignment: Rethinking Health Equity in Psychiatric Education and Practice (1:30–3:00 p.m., Room 204)
- Karthik Sarma, MD, PhD (presenter) – “Tell Me About Your Use of Chatbots”: A Clinician’s Guide to Integrating AI Use Into the Patient Interview (1:30–3:00 p.m., Room 211)
- Albert Ning Zhou, MD (presenter) – Recent Updates in LGBTQ+ Psychiatry (1:30–3:00 p.m., Room 304)
Special Reception
All UCSF alumni, faculty, trainees, and friends at the 2026 Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association are invited to join us for a relaxed late afternoon reception featuring food, drinks, and lively conversation. The reception will be held from 4:00–6:00 p.m. at ATWater Tavern (295 Terry Francois Blvd.), located near Oracle Park.
Tuesday, May 19
- Danielle Chammas, MD (chair) – Sharing Our Expertise: Teaching Psychological Skills to Palliative Care Clinicians (3:45–5:15 p.m., Room 210)
- Adam Gazzaley, MD, PhD (presenter) – The Neurotech Nexus: Technology Business and Clinical Neuroscience (3:45–5:15 p.m., Rooms 310/311)
- Andrew Krystal, MD, MS (co-chair) – Clinical Sleep Medicine for the Psychiatrist (8:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m., Room 154)
- Christina Mangurian, MD, MAS (presenter) – Thriving in Multiple Roles: Women Psychiatrists Speak on Work Life and What Sustains Us (8:30–10:00 a.m., Rooms 310/311)
- Sudha Prathikanti, MD (chair); Alice Dong, MD (presenter); Jeffrey Woods, MD (presenter) – What’s Your Dosha? Ayurvedic Phenotypes for Targeted Treatment in Major Depression (3:45–5:15 p.m., Room 304)
- Sandra Weiss, PhD, RN, FAAN (presenter) – Transforming Women’s Mental Health Care: The National Network of Depression Centers in Action (1:30–3:00 p.m., Room 312)
Wednesday, May 20
- Richard Bermudes, MD (chair) – Empowering Your Practice: Home Neuromodulation Implementation One Device at a Time (8:30–10:00 a.m., Room 209)
- Richard Bermudes, MD (presenter) – Pediatric Neuromodulation: Stepwise Innovations in Empowering Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist (10:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m., Room 304)
- Danielle Chammas, MD (chair); Michael Rabow, MD (presenter) – Poetic Medicine for the Wounded Healer: Cultivating Resilience and Meaning in Psychiatric Practice (10:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m., Room 104)
- Mimi Yen Li, MD (chair); Anthony Daggett, MD, PhD (presenter); Marysol Encarnación, MD (presenter); Kalpana Nathan, MD (presenter) – When the Psychiatrist Takes a Mental Health Day: Generational Perspectives on Professionalism (8:30–10:00 a.m., Room 104)
Schedule information provided by the American Psychiatric Association. Presenters and presentations are subject to change without prior notice.
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
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