UCSF Psychiatry News

UCSF-led study finds that insomnia, but not lack of sleep, may hasten brain shrinkage.

UCSF clinician and educator Tammy Duong, MD, has been selected to serve as the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences’s new vice chair for medical education, effective November 1, 2024.

DPBS faculty member John Chamberlain, MD, has been selected as this year's recipient of the Henry J. Kaiser Award for Excellence in Teaching in an Ambulatory Care Setting.

Former UCSF faculty member Russell B. Lemle, PhD, who retired in 2019, will be recognized by the American Psychological Association (APA) with one of the group's highest distinctions.

John Devine, MD, a much beloved and highly esteemed clinician-educator who spent more than two decades with UCSF and San Francisco VA Medical Center, passed away suddenly on Oct. 7, 2024.

UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals and the UCSF Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences have been recognized as one of the nation's top providers of pediatric and adolescent behavioral health care in U.S. News & World Report's 2024-2025 Best Children's Hospitals list.

Longtime department member, psychiatrist, and community leader Miriam Gould (Shain), MD, has passed away at the age of 99.

The UCSF Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences recently announced the appointment of two accomplished faculty members to endowed chair positions by UCSF Chancellor Sam Hawgood, MBBS, and School of Medicine Dean Talmadge E. King, Jr., MD. Both appointments have been bestowed in recognition of the recipients’ outstanding accomplishments and to support future scholarly growth and further excellence across the department’s clinical, research, educational, and public service missions.

DPBS faculty member Samantha Abram, PhD, and postdoctoral scholar Xiyu Zhu, PhD have been awarded 2024 Young Investigator Grants by the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation (BBRF) in recognition of their work as promising young scientists conducting innovative, cutting-edge neurobiological and psychiatric research.