UCSF Adult Psychiatry Residency Training Program announces chief residents for 2021-2022

2021-2022 chief residents

The UC San Francisco Adult Psychiatry Residency Training Program (RTP) has announced its new chief residents for the upcoming 2021-2022 academic year. Selected by the RTP leadership team and service chiefs, the following residents will begin their appointments on June 1, 2021:

Abdelli

Chief Resident for Clinical Programs
Amir Abdelli, MD

Daggett

Chief Resident for Education
Anthony Daggett, MD, PhD

Hu

Chief Resident for LPPH Ambulatory Services
Melody Hu, MD, MHS

Peters

Chief Resident for LPPH Intensive Services, Adult Inpatient Service
Matthew Peters, MD

Pinard

Chief Resident for the San Francisco VA Medical Center
Kerry-Ann Pinard, MD

Smith

Chief Resident for Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center
William Smith, MD

Syed

Chief Resident for LPPH Intensive Services, Consultation-Liaison Service
Adnan Syed, MD, MS

Wang

Chief Resident for Research
Belinda Wang, MD, PhD


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 mission focused on research (basic, translational, clinical), teaching, patient care, and public service.

UCSF Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences conducts its clinical, educational, and research efforts at a variety of locations in Northern California, including Langley Porter Psychiatric Hospital; UCSF Medical Centers at Parnassus Heights, Mission Bay, and Mount Zion; 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—Neurology, Psychiatry, 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.