UCSF Psychiatry News

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.

Similarly, Anna Victoria Molofsky, MD, PhD, who studies neuropsychiatric diseases, and Martin Kampmann, PhD, who studies neurodegenerative diseases, have different focuses, but their work overlaps, and they often collaborate. So, it’s fitting that both Kampmann and Molofsky are 2025 recipients of the Bowes Biomedical Investigator award.

Four early career researchers from the UCSF Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences have been recognized for their outstanding original research with the department's annual Grand Rounds Trainee Research Award.

The UC San Francisco Adult Psychiatry Residency Training Program (RTP) has announced its new chief residents for the upcoming 2025-2026 academic year.