Department to welcome four new faculty members this week

Costello, Hermanstyne, Kaplan, and Tolou-Shams
Four new faculty members will officially begin their academic appointments with the Department of Psychiatry on Tuesday, September 1. Please join us in welcoming these new colleagues to our faculty ranks.

Caitlin Costello, MD, will serve as an Assistant Health Sciences Clinical Professor and work with the department’s Child & Adolescent Psychiatry clinics. She completed her medical training at the John Hopkins University School of Medicine, a psychiatry residency at John Hopkins Hospital, and also served as a child and adolescent psychiatry fellow at the New York Presbyterian Hospital of Columbia and Cornell Universities. Last year, Costello was a fellow in the UCSF Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship Program.

Keith Hermanstyne, MD, MPH, will join the faculty as an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and HIV/LGBT Clinical Researcher at SFGH and the Alliance Health Project. He received his MD from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and completed his psychiatry residency here at UCSF. For the past two years, Hermanstyne was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Fellow at UCLA. In 2013, he was the recipient of the UCSF Alston Award for Leadership in Psychiatry.

Lawrence Kaplan, DO, will begin as an Assistant Health Sciences Clinical Professor and attending psychiatrist in the Assessment Clinic and at the UCSF-affiliated One Medical Group’s Internal Medicine Clinic. He received his medical degree from Touro University and completed his residency at the Baylor College of Medicine. Kaplan also completed a psychosomatic medicine clinical fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard School of Medicine, as well as a psychosocial oncology fellowship at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute.

Marina Tolou-Shams, PhD, will join the department as an Associate Professor in Residence and Director of the Division of Infant, Child & Adolescent Psychiatry at SFGH. She holds a PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Illinois at Chicago and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in pediatric psychology and adolescent HIV prevention at Brown University. Tolou-Shams brings a wealth of experience to her new role, including a previous academic appointment in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown University, and directorships of the Rhode Island Training School’s Substance Abuse Treatment Program and the Rhode Island Family Court’s Juvenile Mental Health Clinic.