UCSF Psychiatry News

The Steinberg Institute announced today the selection of UCSF's Fumi Mitsuishi, MD, MS, as the first of its 2024 Steinberg Institute Champions. The recognition, awarded each May during Mental Health Awareness Month, honors unsung heroes working to improve the lives of California's most vulnerable.

Over time, these subtle and, sometimes, not so subtle slights can lead to everything from poor sleep to low self esteem and even depression.

The 176th Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) will be held Saturday, May 4–Wednesday, May 8, 2024, at New York's Jacob K. Javits Convention Center and numerous current and former UCSF Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences faculty members and trainees will be in attendance.

Gary Humfleet, PhD, passed away peacefully on April 11, 2024, surrounded by family and friends, after a long battle with cancer. He was nationally known for his work in smoking cessation clinical trials, particularly related to health disparities, treatment of chronic smokers, and those with co-occurring disorders.

First-year psychiatry resident Jacqueline Leon, MD, MPH, been selected as the recipient of the 2024 PGY-1 Krevans Award by her peers and faculty members at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center (ZSFG).

The ideal therapy for a disease works exclusively at the site of the disease, but when it comes to the brain—which is wrapped in a protective barrier and contains thousands of different cell types—this ideal is very hard to achieve.

DPBS faculty member Andreea L. Seritan, MD, has been recognized with a 2023-2024 UCSF Health Exceptional Physician Award for delivering world-class patient care and embodying the organization's PRIDE Values

The UC San Francisco Adult Psychiatry Residency Training Program (RTP) revealed that it will welcome a full class of 16 new resident physicians into its Class of 2028 following the announcement of the National Resident Matching Program's 2024 Main Residency Match results.

Springing forward an hour leaves Americans so groggy that car accidents and heart attacks spike on ‘Sleepy Monday.’ Here are four tips to avoid it.

Four early career researchers from the UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences have been selected to present their scholarship and research at Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Grand Rounds events later this spring as part of a series designed to highlight the work of senior trainees