UCSF Psychiatry training programs announce chief residents and fellows for 2017-2018

By Nicholas Roznovsky
 

The UCSF Adult Psychiatry Residency Training Program (RTP) has announced its new chief residents for the 2017-2018 academic year. Selected by the RTP leadership team and service chiefs, the following residents will begin their appointments on June 1, 2017:

Jesse Bastiaens, MD



Chief Resident for San Francisco VA Medical Center
Jesse Bastiaens, MD
Sara Baumann, MD



Chief Resident for Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital & Trauma Center
Sara Baumann, MD
Laura Kaplan, MD



Chief Resident for Clinical Programs
Laura Kaplan, MD
Stefana Borovska, MD



Chief Resident for Research
Stefana Morgan, MD
Elizabeth Rawson, MD



Chief Resident for Langley Porter Psychiatric Hospital Ambulatory Services
Elizabeth Rawson, MD, MHS
Takeo Toyoshima, MD



Chief Resident for Langley Porter Psychiatric Hospital Intensive Services
Takeo Toyoshima, MD
Albert Ning Zhou, MD



Chief Resident for Education
Albert Ning Zhou, MD

Also announced were the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Training Program's chief fellows for the 2017-2018 academic year. Appointed by Vice Chair for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Bryan King, MD, MBA, they also assume their new roles on July 1, 2017:

Mark Elliott, MD



Chief Fellow
Mark Elliott, MD
Robert Mendenhall, MD



Chief Fellow
Robert Mendenhall, MD

About UCSF Psychiatry

The UCSF Department of Psychiatry 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 mission focused on research (basic, translational, clinical), teaching, patient care and public service.

UCSF Psychiatry conducts its clinical, educational and research efforts at a variety of locations in Northern California, including UCSF campuses at Parnassus Heights, Mission Bay and Laurel Heights, UCSF Medical Center, UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center, the San Francisco VA Health Care System and UCSF Fresno.

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—Neurology, Psychiatry, 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

UC San Francisco (UCSF) is a leading university dedicated to promoting health worldwide through advanced biomedical research, graduate-level education in the life sciences and health professions, and excellence in patient care. It includes top-ranked graduate schools of dentistry, medicine, nursing and pharmacy; a graduate division with nationally renowned programs in basic, biomedical, translational and population sciences; and a preeminent biomedical research enterprise. It also includes UCSF Health, which comprises top-ranked hospitals – UCSF Medical Center and UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals in San Francisco and Oakland – and other partner and affiliated hospitals and healthcare providers throughout the Bay Area.