The UCSF Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences held its 2025 Graduation Commencement Ceremony on Friday, June 27, 2025, to recognize and celebrate the accomplishments of our residents, fellows, interns, and other trainees who are completing their programs and preparing for the next step in their professional lives. Altogether, 71 graduates across 19 separate fellowships and training programs took part.
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Commencement program
Below is a copy of our official commencement program. You can flip through the program and zoom in or out using controls on the page, open the program in a fullscreen window, or download a copy to view on your device.
About this year's commencement speaker: Fumi Mitsuishi, MD, MS
Dr. Fumi Mitsuishi is a health sciences clinical professor and vice chair for Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center (ZSFG) in the University of California, San Francisco's Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. She also serves at the chief of psychiatry at ZSFG.
Dr. Mitsuishi has committed her career to social justice, public service, and holistic health that supports mind, body, and social wellness. Born in Japan, raised in France, and educated in the United States, her unique background has fostered an appreciation for living at the intersection of cultures and understanding the experience of “otherness.” She firmly believes that unconditional positive regard for others and data-driven interventions can minimize stigma, homelessness, and suffering.
She joined the Department of Psychiatry Behavioral Sciences as a faculty member in 2012 and served as the division director of UCSF Citywide Case Management Programs, which provides "wrap-around" services for people in San Francisco with serious mental health conditions and co-occurring substance use challenges, from 2018 to 2024. As the city’s largest provider of intensive case management, Citywide cares for more than 1,500 clients a year at their main clinic in the Mission District, as well as on the streets, in shelters and navigation centers, and at housing sites across San Francisco through mobile support teams.
Dr. Mitsuishi studied neuroscience and history of art as an undergraduate and earned a master's in health sciences at UC Berkeley, and then completed her medical training, residency in psychiatry, and a fellowship in public psychiatry at UCSF. In her roles as an educator, clinician, and administrator, she has mentored and touched the lives of countless current and former residents, fellows, and faculty colleagues. In 2024, she was honored as a Steinberg Institute Champion in recognition of her work to improve the lives of California's most vulnerable.
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
The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) is exclusively focused on the health sciences and is dedicated to promoting health worldwide through advanced biomedical research, graduate-level education in the life sciences and health professions, and excellence in patient care. UCSF Health, which serves as UCSF’s primary academic medical center, includes top-ranked specialty hospitals and other clinical programs, and has affiliations throughout the Bay Area.
Looking for a previous ceremony? Archived videos of our most recent graduation commencements are available: 2024 • 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020.