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Emma Samelson-Jones, MD

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Professor

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She/Her/Hers
Dr. Emma Samelson-Jones is a clinician-educator within the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences who holds a joint appointment in the Department of Medicine. She is an attending psychiatrist in the Adult Psychiatry Clinic and in the primary care practice of the General Medicine Clinic at Mount Zion.

Her latest curriculum development project is called PsychSnaps. PsychSnaps offers case-based lessons in psychiatry and addiction medicine for PCPs by email newsletter and online at psychsnaps.com. Dr. Samelson-Jones also develops and teaches the psychopharmacology courses for the senior psychiatry residents at UCSF. She serves as the Psychiatry Site Director for Medical Student Education at Parnassus and the psychiatry liaison for the Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship at Parnassus (PISCES Program).

  • 2020 - Teaching Scholars Program, University of California, San Francisco
  • 2017 - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training, University of California
  • 2013 - Psychiatry Residency, Columbia University
  • 2013 - Public Psychiatry Fellowship, Columbia University
  • M.D., 2009 - Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
  • A.B., 2002 - Chemistry and Physics, Harvard University

Swine, Miniature
Physician-Patient Relations
Carbon Monoxide
Practice Guidelines As Topic
Heart Transplantation
Contraindications
Thymus Gland
Lymphocyte Transfusion
Patient Selection
Intellectual Disability
Students, Medical
Isoantigens
Transplantation
Transplantation Tolerance
Graft Survival

  • Faculty Innovation in Education Award, American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology, 2022-2024
  • Inducted into the Haile T. Debas Academy of Medical Educators, UCSF Center for Faculty Educators, 2021
  • Exceptional Physician Award, UCSF Health, 2018
  • Henry J. Kaiser Award for Excellence in Teaching, UCSF School of Medicine, 2017

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