The UCSF Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences held its 2025 Graduation Commencement Ceremony on Thursday, June 18, 2026, 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.
Watch the ceremony
An edited version of the ceremony will recording will be posted early next week. If you'd like, until then you can watch the unedited recording of the livestream below. The ceremony begins at approximately the 1h 40m mark.
Please note that we cannot adjust the camera order on the YouTube stream. If you'd like greater control over your viewing, you can access this steam on Zoom:
- Direct link: https://ucsf.zoom.us/j/93034703300?pwd=3EVTQUJ6IWGqzqGBU8EIyEuudg0aDp.1
- Webinar ID: 930 3470 3300
- Passcode: 415415
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 speakers: Erin C. Accurso, PhD, and Lucy Ogbu-Nwobodo, MD, MS, MAS
Erin C. Accurso, PhD
Dr. Erin C. Accurso specializes in the assessment and treatment of youth and young adults with eating disorders. She received her doctorate in clinical psychology from the SDSU/ UC San Diego Joint Doctoral Program and then completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Chicago through the T32 Midwest Regional Postdoctoral Training Grant in Eating Disorders Research prior to joining UCSF.
She is a UCSF Benioff Professor in Children's Health in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and an affiliated faculty member at the UCSF Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, as well as the director of the UCSF Eating Disorders Program.
Dr. Accurso's current research through an NIMH-funded K23 award focuses on implementation science and improving access to evidence-based care for publicly-insured youth with eating disorders. She also conducts research relevant to health care delivery and policies influencing the organization and delivery of publicly-funded mental health and medical services.
Lucy Ogbu-Nwobodo, MD, MS, MAS
Dr. Lucy Ogbu-Nwobodo is dedicated to improving health care through social justice. After completing her medical school education at UC Davis, she moved to Boston for residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)/McLean Harvard Psychiatry Program, where she served as the MGH Administrative Chief Resident and Chair of the MGH Resident and Fellow Committee.
She is currently an Assistant Professor at UCSF and serves in a number of leadership and clinical roles, including director of the UCSF Public Psychiatry Fellowship Program, associate director of the UCSF Psychiatry Residency Training Program, and director of the UCSF School of Medicine’s Post-Baccalaureate Program and Office of Outreach.
She is also a co-editor of the Racism and Mental Health Equity column in Psychiatric Services Journal, a monthly publication of the American Psychiatric Association, as well as a board member for the Africa Interdisciplinary Research Institute, American Association for Community Psychiatry, and Black Psychiatrists of America.
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: 2025 • 2024 • 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020.