Core Faculty

	Andrew Halls, MD Dr. Halls is the interim director of the Adult Psychiatry Residency Training Program. He is also a consultation-liaison psychiatrist at the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center. He studied neuroscience, psychology, and women, gender, and sexuality studies at Johns Hopkins University, where he also attended medical school. He is a proud graduate of both the general psychiatry residency program and the consultation-liaison psychiatry fellowship at UCSF. In addition to interest in medical education and curriculum development, his clinical interests include complex psychopharmacology in the medically ill, psychological factors affecting other medical conditions, and LGBTQ+ mental health. He loves to travel especially to try new street food; and to continue trekking through lists of best local restaurants with his friends and family.
	John Chamberlain, MD Dr. Chamberlain is the site director for residency training at Langley Porter Psychiatric Hospital and the Pritzker Building. He is also the associate director of the UCSF Program in Psychiatry and the Law. After earning his BS in biology at Stanford University, he attended medical school at UC San Diego. Dr. Chamberlain then completed three years of general surgery residency at the University of Michigan Medical Center. He transferred to UCSF and finished a residency in adult psychiatry and a fellowship in forensic psychiatry. As a faculty member, he has worked on the inpatient unit, the UCSF consultation-liaison service, and the partial hospitalization program, as well as in the adult outpatient clinics. He previously served as the director of the UCSF Consultation-Liaison Service. He is responsible for the criminal forensic psychiatry curriculum for the fellows in the Program in Psychiatry and the Law. He maintains an outpatient practice in clinical psychiatry providing consultation liaison services, medication management services, and psychotherapy services. Outside of work he enjoys spending time with his family, reading, and volunteering.
	Lucy Ogbu-Nwobodo, MD Dr. Ogbu-Nwobodo is the associate program director for outreach and opportunity, advising, and assessment in the Adult Psychiatry Residency Training Program. She graduated from UC Davis School of Medicine and completed her psychiatry residency in the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)/McLean Harvard Psychiatry Program. She serves as a co-editor of the "Racism and Mental Health Equity" column in Psychiatric Services Journal, which is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal of the American Psychiatric Association (APA). Her interests include public psychiatry, medical education, pre-health pathway program development, mentorship, justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion and health services delivery in disenfranchised communities. She is an avid reader, runner, and a lover of public radio and stand-up comedy.
	Alissa Peterson, MD Dr. Peterson is the site director for residency training at San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center (ZSFG). She has been on faculty at UCSF since 2009 and her clinical work is focused at ZSFG on the inpatient psychiatry units. Dr. Peterson received her undergraduate degree from UCLA and her MD from UCSF. She is also a graduate of the UCSF Adult Psychiatry Residency Training Program. Her interests include emergency psychiatry, trauma, chronic mental illness in underserved populations, and medical education. Outside of work she enjoys spending time with her husband and two teenage children, seeing (and occasionally performing in!) live theater, and reading.
	Adnan Syed, MD, MSc Dr. Syed is the site director for training at the San Francisco VA Medical Center. He received his undergraduate degree from Stanford University, pursued a master's degree at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and subsequently completed medical school, residency, and a consultation-liaison fellowship at UCSF. Clinically, his interests include neuropsychiatry, interventional psychiatry, and women's mental health. He has additional interest in the use of metaphor when communicating models of mental illness. He treasures exploring botanical gardens with his family, listening to ambient music, and reading Ursula K. Le Guin.
	Susan Voglmaier, MD, PhD Dr. Voglmaier is the director of the Psychiatry Resident Research Training Program (RRTP). She splits her time between research, teaching, and clinical work, primarily in the areas of schizophrenia and depression. Dr. Voglmaier's laboratory studies synaptic vesicle trafficking and neurotransmitter release. Dr. Voglmaier obtained her BA, MD, and a PhD in neuroscience from Johns Hopkins, and trained at UCSF for her psychiatry residency and postdoctoral fellowship. She was one of the first UCSF RRTP graduates, and is interested in fostering the integration of biological and psychological approaches to neuropsychiatric disease.
	Joseph Zamaria, PsyD Dr. Zamaria is the associate program director for psychotherapy. He is also an attending psychologist within the UCSF Health Psychiatry Outpatient Clinics, providing supervision for psychiatry residents and psychology fellows and maintaining an outpatient psychotherapy practice. After earning a BA in psychology and philosophy at Rutgers University, Dr. Zamaria went on to obtain a doctorate in clinical psychology at the California School of Professional Psychology. He completed an internship in clinical psychology at California Pacific Medical Center’s Department of Psychiatry and a postdoctoral fellowship at UCSF. He is a founding member of the American Arab, Middle Eastern, and North African Psychological Association (AMENA-PSY) and his interests include psychotherapy education, trauma-focused therapies such as internal family systems (IFS), and the research, education, and clinical practice of psychedelic-assisted therapy (PAT).

 

Department leadership

	Matthew W. State, MD, PhD Dr. State has been the chair of the UCSF Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and director of the Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute since 2013. No stranger to California, he received his undergraduate and medical degree from Stanford University and completed his residency and a fellowship at UCLA, before moving to Yale in 2001 for a PhD in genetics where he also served as co-director of the Program on Neurogenetics. He is a leading child psychiatrist and internationally recognized expert on the genetics and genomics of autism, Tourette syndrome, and other neurodevelopmental syndromes.
	Dan Becker, MD Dr. Becker is serves as the department's vice chair for strategy and interim vice chair for adult psychiatry. He specializes in adolescent psychiatry and addiction psychiatry. He received his bachelor’s degree in Humanities from Stanford University and his medical degree from the University of Wisconsin, then completed residency training at Yale University. Dr. Becker’s research interests are primarily in the areas of adolescent and young adult psychopathology, and include substance use disorders, eating disorders, personality disorders, the psychiatric sequelae of trauma exposure, gender and ethnic differences in the expression of psychopathology, adolescent mothers, and integrated behavioral health care.
	Tammy Duong, MD Dr. Duong is the department’s vice chair for medical education. She previously served as director of the UCSF Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship. She is also the UCSF-Health ambulatory executive medical director for psychiatry and behavioral health. She completed her adult psychiatry residency at the University of Southern California and geriatric psychiatry fellowship at UCSF. She is a graduate of the University of Kansas for her medical and undergraduate degrees. Her interests include geriatric psychiatry, neurodegenerative disorders, medical education, and medical ethics.
	Bryan King, MD, MBA Dr. King is the department’s vice chair for child and adolescent psychiatry and vice president for child behavioral health services at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals. A graduate of the Medical College of Wisconsin and the George Washington University School of Business, King has previously held faculty appointments and key clinical leadership positions at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, University of Washington, and Seattle Children’s Hospital. King is also a highly accomplished researcher, having authored more than 120 academic publications on autism and neurodevelopmental disorders, pediatric psychology and behavioral medicine, mood disorders, and disruptive behavior disorders.
	Andrew Krystal, MD, MS Dr. Krystal is the department's vice chair for research, as well as an internationally recognized expert in the areas of mood and sleep disorders with over 25 years of clinical and research experience to his credit. His work has focused on developing new treatments for these conditions and the identification of biomarkers for improving treatment effectiveness. After completing undergraduate and master’s degrees in biomedical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and earning a medical degree from the Duke University School of Medicine, Krystal served as a faculty member and clinician at Duke University Medical Center for over two decades.

 

Fellowship directors

	Bibhav Acharya, MD Dr. Acharya is an assistant professor and the founding director of UCSF Psychiatry HEAL Fellowship in Global Mental Health, which trains psychiatrists as leaders in clinical practice and capacity building in low-resource settings in the United States and abroad. His research focuses on developing, implementing and assessing models to expand access to mental health services in low-resource settings. His work examines the processes and outcomes of engaging generalist health workers to provide high-quality, culturally-sensitive and evidence-based mental health services under guidance from specialists like psychiatrists. Dr. Acharya co-founded Possible, a non-profit that operates two district-level hospitals and oversees 150 community health workers in rural Nepal in partnership with the Nepali government. He was born and raised in Nepal and arrived in the United States to attend Haverford College on a full scholarship. He received his MD from Yale University and completed residency training in general adult psychiatry at UCSF.
	Renée Binder, MD Dr. Binder is the director of the Psychiatry and the Law Program. She served as interim chair of the Department of Psychiatry for over three years and has been associate dean of academic affairs for the UCSF School of Medicine since 2004. She is a past president of the American Psychiatric Association (APA), American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, the Northern California Psychiatric Society, and the California Psychiatric Association. Dr. Binder also served on the APA Board of Trustees and was chair of the APA Council on Psychiatry and the Law. Her research has focused on violence risk assessment of patients with mental illness and the criminalization of the mentally ill.
	Caitlin Costello, MD Dr. Costello is the director of the UCSF Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship. She completed medical school at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and residency in general psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Hospital. She completed a fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry at the New York Presbyterian Hospital of Columbia and Cornell Universities and a fellowship in forensic psychiatry at UCSF. She has interests in OCD and tic disorders, medical education and curriculum development, and child and adolescent forensic psychiatry.
	Erik Levinsohn, MD Dr. Levinsohn is the program director for the UCSF Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Fellowship. He completed medical school at the Yale School of Medicine, a general psychiatry residency at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and a fellowship in consultation-liaison psychiatry at Boston Medical Center. He has previously worked as an inpatient consultation psychiatry attending at the West Roxbury VA Medical Center in Boston. He is an assistant professor of psychiatry and consultation-liaison psychiatrist at UCSF. He is also the associate psychiatry clerkship director. His clinical interests include delirium, decision-making capacity, critical care psychiatry, medical ethics, and psychodynamic psychotherapy. Outside of work you will find him riding his bicycle in Marin County or walking his dog with his wife in Golden Gate Park.
	Christina Mangurian, MD, MAS Dr. Mangurian is a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences & epidemiology and biostatistics, and is core faculty at the UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations. She has been the founding director of the UCSF Public Psychiatry Fellowship since 2011. She also is the founding director of the UCSF Mid-Career Development Program for Research Faculty. She attended UCSF for medical school and completed her psychiatry residency and public psychiatry fellowship at Columbia University. Dr. Mangurian is a physician scientist whose NIH-funded research aims to improve integration of care for people with serious mental illness mental illness. She also is a champion for workforce equity in academic medicine, publishing work on gender equity in high-impact journals including NEJM, JAMA, and BMJ. She was awarded the 2017 UCSF Chancellor’s Award for the Advancement of Women. When she is not working, Dr. Mangurian enjoys spending time relaxing with her husband and two children.
	Billy Smith, MD Dr. Smith is the interim director of the UCSF Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship training program. He graduated from Harvard Medical School and completed his general psychiatry residency and geriatric psychiatry fellowship at UCSF. During his time in residency, Dr. Smith completed area of distinction programs in both LGBTQ+ mental health and clinical neuroscience. In addition to his passion for medical education, his interests include caring for older LGBTQ+ adults, HIV and aging, and acute psychiatry. His clinical work includes providing care at ZSFG on inpatient psychiatry as well as at UCSF in outpatient geriatric psychiatry with a focus on caring for older adults living with HIV. His personal interests include yoga, cycling, traveling, and eating his way through San Francisco.
	Tauheed Zaman, MD Dr. Zaman is an addiction psychiatrist at the San Francisco VA Health Care System, where he founded and now leads the Addiction Consult Service as medical director. He is an associate clinical professor at UCSF and program director of the Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship Program. He serves in several leadership roles at the California Society of Addiction Medicine, including its board of directors, and on the American Psychiatric Association's Council on Addictions. His research includes the impact of cannabis and opioid use among chronic pain patients. He completed his addiction training at UCSF and his psychiatry residency at Harvard Medical School/Cambridge Health Alliance.