UCSF Psychiatry News

Lucy Ogbu-Nwobodo, MD, MS, MAS, has been named a 2023 John A. Watson Faculty Scholar and recipient of a UCSF School of Medicine Dean's Diversity Fund Award.

UCSF faculty member Susan Voglmaier, MD, PhD, received a 2022-2023 UCSF Excellence and Innovation Award in Graduate Medical Education during a virtual ceremony on June 12.

Over the past three years, hundreds of primary care providers across the state have used a UCSF-created portal to get real-time video, phone, and email access to UCSF psychiatrists and psychologists for advice on treating young patients with mental health concerns.

Citywide Case Management, a 43-year-old program located in the city’s Mission district, serves clients with serious mental illness.

The 175th Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) will be held Saturday, May 20–Wednesday, May 24, 2023, at San Francisco's George R. Moscone Convention Center, marking the organization's first gathering in the Bay Area since 2019.

Longtime UC San Francisco professor and child trauma researcher Alicia Lieberman, MD, has been named one of this year's recipients of the Holly Smith Award for Exceptional Service to the UCSF School of Medicine.

UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland has opened its first stand-alone outpatient mental health services building dedicated to children and youth, as part of its ongoing efforts to address the rising need for pediatric mental health services in Oakland and the region.

UCSF's psychiatry program has once again been identified among the best in the nation, according to the latest rankings from in U.S. News & World Report's annual survey of the best graduate and professional schools.

A new study shows that sleep spindles, brief bursts of brain activity occurring during one phase of sleep and captured by EEG, may regulate anxiety in people with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

The UC San Francisco Academic Senate has announced that Kilroy Realty Endowed Professor in Psychiatry Marina Tolou-Shams, PhD, has been selected to receive its 2023 Distinction In Mentoring Award for faculty at the rank of full professor.