UCSF experts to take part in the 68th AACAP Annual Meeting

AACAP Annual Meeting

This year's annual meeting of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry will be held entirely online.

The 68th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) will be held virtually October 18–30, 2021. Numerous current and former UCSF faculty members and trainees will take part in this year's event, including the following scheduled to contribute at one or more sessions:

Live presentations

All event times are Pacific Daylight Time (PDT).

Johanna Folk, PhD

Lisa R. Fortuna, MD, MPH

Anne L. Glowinski, MD, MPE

Robert Hendren, DO

Eva C. Ihle, MD, PhD

Bryan King, MD, MBA

Bennett Leventhal, MD

Devanand Manoli, MD, PhD

William Martinez, PhD

Michelle Porche, EdD

Matthew State, MD, PhD

Marina Tolou-Shams, PhD

Helen Willsey, PhD

A. Ning Zhou, MD

Rachel Zoffness, PhD

Poster presentations

New research posters will be available on the conference website the week of Tuesday, Oct. 19–Sunday, Oct. 24. An online message board will be available for attendees to ask questions and interact with the authors.

Stephen Bent, MD

Matthew Davis

Robert Hendren, DO

Busha Hossain, MAS

Melody Hu, MD

Angela Jakary

Namasvi Jariwala, MA

Richard Jin, MD, PhD

Isaac Johnson, MD

Allyson Khau, MPH

Hosanna Kim, MD

Young-Shin Kim, MD, PhD

Chuan-Mei Lee, MD, MA

Bennett Leventhal, MD

Brendon Lin

Jessica Lutz, MPH

China Parenteau

Kendall Parks

Benjamin Sipes, MSC

Olga Tymofiyeva, PhD

Hohui Wang, MD

Felicia Widjaja, MPH

Tony Yang, MD, PhD

Jeein Yoon, MD

Schedule information provided by the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. Conference registration is required to view presentation sessions. Presenters and presentations are subject to change without prior notice.

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.