UCSF Psychiatry News

O'Donovan

O'Donovan honored by American Psychosomatic Society

March 12, 2019
UC San Francisco assistant adjunct professor Aoife O'Donovan, PhD, has been recognized by the American Psychosomatic Society (APS) with its 2019 Herbert E. Weiner Early Career Award.
UCSF Parnassus Heights campus

UCSF once again named a top five school for psychiatry by U.S. News

March 11, 2019
For the second year in a row, UC San Francisco has been recognized in the top five nationally among psychiatry programs in the U.S. News & World Report survey of best graduate and professional schools.
Research

Four selected as 2019 Grand Rounds Trainee Research Award honorees

March 05, 2019
Four department trainees have been selected to present their scholarship and research at Department of Psychiatry Grand Rounds events later this year as part of a series designed to highlight the work of senior trainees.
Hwong

Hwong named AAGP Honors Scholar

March 05, 2019
Third-year UCSF psychiatry resident Alison Hwong, MD, PhD, was selected by the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry (AAGP) has one of its 2019 AAGP Honors Scholars.
2019-2020 chief residents

UCSF Psychiatry Chief Residents for 2019-2020 announced

February 27, 2019
The UC San Francisco Adult Psychiatry Residency Training Program (RTP) has announced its new chief residents for the 2019-2020 academic year.
Chamberlain

Chamberlain to be awarded APA Distinguished Fellowship

February 26, 2019
John Chamberlain, MD, will be awarded the status of Distinguished Fellow by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) at the association’s upcoming annual meeting this May in San Francisco.
Lieberman

In Memoriam: Morton Lieberman, PhD

February 25, 2019
Morton (Mort) A. Lieberman, PhD, a renowned psychologist whose career spanned five decades at the University of Chicago and University of California, San Francisco, recently passed away at the age of 87
Solms

South African neuropsychologist Mark Solms to speak at 14th annual Wallerstein Lecture

February 21, 2019
The University of California, San Francisco Department of Psychiatry will host its 14th annual Robert S. Wallerstein, MD Lectureship in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy on Wednesday, March 27, 2019, from 1:00-4:45 p.m. in Cole Hall Auditorium on the UCSF Parnassus Heights campus.
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Biane, Malik, Nowakowski, Scangos named 2018 NARSAD Young Investigator Grant recipients

December 21, 2018
Four UCSF Psychiatry researchers have been awarded 2018 NARSAD Young Investigator Grants by the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation in recognition of their work as promising young scientists conducting innovative, cutting-edge neurobiological and psychiatric research.
Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland

$15M Benioff gift expands children’s mental health services in East Bay

December 18, 2018
UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland has received a $15 million gift from Lynne and Marc Benioff to address the acute shortage of mental health services for children and adolescents in Oakland and the East Bay, which reflects a nationwide shortage.

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