UCSF Psychiatry News

Last month, UCSF Professor of Psychiatry Peter M. Ferren, MD, MPH, made his eighth visit since 2007 to Vellore, India, where he serves as a volunteer clinical faculty member in the Christian Medical College (CMC)'s Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Unit.

The 169th Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) will be held Saturday, May 14-Wednesday, May 18, 2015 in Atlanta, Georgia.

UCSF Child Trauma Research Program Director and Department of Psychiatry Vice Chair Alicia Lieberman, PhD, has been chosen by the World Association for Infant Mental Health (WAIMH) as the 2016 recipient of the organization’s René Spitz Award for her lifetime contributions to clinical and empirical research on topics related to infant mental health.

UC San Francisco neuroscientists and Department of Psychiatry faculty members Michael Brainard, PhD, and John L.R. Rubenstein, MD, PhD, have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Two short films about Tourette's syndrome and tic disorders will be screened next week on the UCSF Mission Bay Campus.

​The 71st Annual Meeting of the Society of Biological Psychiatry (SOBP) will be held Thursday, May 12 - Saturday, May 14, 2016 at the Hyatt Regency in Atlanta, Georgia.

On April 5, 1941 - a typical, cool spring San Francisco day - dignitaries and guests gathered on an empty plot of land along Parnassus Avenue for the laying of the cornerstone of California's first modern neuropsychiatric institute.

Three UCSF Psychiatry faculty members – Mardi J. Horowitz, MD; Dale E. McNiel, PhD, and Matthew W. State, MD, PhD – have been chosen by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) to give lectures at its 2016 Annual Meeting in Atlanta this May. These invited lectures feature a small number of distinguished speakers discussing scientific and cultural topics, many of which extend beyond the usual limits of clinical psychiatry. UCSF is the only institution with multiple faculty members featured as scientific program lecturers this year.

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in veterans is associated with worse vascular function, which can increase their risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD) and death, according to researchers at UC San Francisco and the affiliated San Francisco VA Health Care System.

​The UCSF Department of Psychiatry was ranked third among departments at public institutions and sixth among all recipients in psychiatric research grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in fiscal year 2015, according to annual figures released by the independent Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research (BRI).