UCSF Psychiatry Year in Review 2016

UCSF Psychiatry Advancing mental health across the lifespan 2 0 1 6 Y EA R IN R E V I E W

2 0 1 6 D E PA R T M E N T H O N O R S Ranked 2nd for Drug & Substance Abuse Research • U.S. News & World Report Ranked 6th among Psychiatric Residency Programs • U.S. News & World Report/Doximity Ranked 6th in NIH Funding • Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research Named a “Best U.S. Hospital for Adult Psychiatry” • U.S. News & World Report

2 0 1 6 F A C U LT Y & T R A I N E E H O N O R S Michael Brainard, PhD • Elected Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences Colin Buzza, MD, MPH, MSc • American Psychiatric Association Public Psychiatry Fellowship Smita Das, MD, PhD, MPH • American Society of Addiction Medicine Young Investigator Award James W. Dilley, MD • American Psychiatric Association Adolf Meyer Award Elissa S. Epel, PhD • Elected Member, National Academy of Medicine Stephen P. Hinshaw, PhD • Association for Psychological Science James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award David Kastner, MD, PhD • National Institute of Mental Health Outstanding Resident Award Russell B. Lemle, PhD • Association of VA Psychologist Leaders Patrick DeLeon Advocacy Award Alicia F. Lieberman, PhD • World Association for Infant Mental Health René Spitz Award Joy E. Lin • Alpha Omega Alpha Carolyn L. Kuckein Student Research Fellowship Shira Maguen, PhD • American Psychological Association Div. 18 Peter J.N. Linnerooth National Service Award Devanand S. Manoli, MD, PhD • Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award for Medical Scientists Daniel H. Mathalon, PhD, MD • Elected Member, Brain & Behavior Research Foundation Scientific Council John McQuaid, PhD • American Psychological Association Div. 18 James Besyner Lifetime Achievement Award Ricardo F. Muñoz, PhD • Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science Anna Victoria Molofsky, MD, PhD • Brain & Behavior Research Foundation NARSAD Young Investigator Grant Dhakshin Ramanathan, MD, PhD • Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award for Medical Scientists John L.R. Rubenstein, MD, PhD • American Psychiatric Association Blanche F. Ittleson Award John L.R. Rubenstein, MD, PhD • Child Mind Institute Distinguished Scientist Award John L.R. Rubenstein, MD, PhD • Elected Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences John L.R. Rubenstein, MD, PhD • Ruane Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Child & Adolescent Psychiatric Research

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WELCOME

Matthew W. State, MD, PhD, has served as Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Director of the Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute since 2013.

A message from the chair 2016 was an exciting and productive year for the UCSF Department of Psychiatry. In April, we joined our colleagues in the Departments of Neurology and Neurological Surgery, the Neurosciences Graduate Program, and the UCSF Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases to form the new UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences.

A centerpiece of this partnership will be the construction of a new 270,000-square foot facility on the UCSF Mission Bay campus that will house basic and clinical research across the neurosciences, as well as neurology outpatient clinics. The Weill Institute is emblematic of a UCSF-wide effort to break down the arbitrary boundaries that have separated psychiatry from other disciplines focusing on brain health. This promises to have a transformative impact on patient care and research for decades to come.

The new Weill Institute building will become the home for our basic scientists and is a critically important complement to our new clinical and clinical research building, which is also currently in the planning stages (see page 12). This facility, located in the Dogpatch neighborhood adjacent to Mission Bay, was made possible by an extraordinarily generous anonymous gift. It will become the home for the Department of Psychiatry, as well the newly created Child, Teen and Family Center. In addition to bringing together a critical mass of clinicians and clinical researchers, this new building will allow us to co-locate collaborative clinical and research programs with pediatrics, neurology, and neurosurgery, and create a truly patient- and family-centered experience for UCSF Psychiatry.

While both of these facilities offer us extraordinary opportunities for growth, we are not waiting on their completion to move ahead. As we enter 2017, we are already in the midst of a major expansion of clinical, research, and education programs, including dozens of additions to our outstanding new faculty and administrative leadership (see page 6). We are working diligently to create new state-of the-art multidisciplinary research and clinical programs across all our sites to augment and complement the outstanding work that is being done daily in programs like the Alliance Health Project, Citywide Focus, Child Trauma Research Program, VA Same-Day Mental Health Clinic, Young Adult & Family Center, and the newly created Eating Disorders Program and STAR Center for Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (and far too many others to list here).

Our faculty, staff, and trainees accomplished extraordinary things in 2016. The national honors you see listed on the page to the left recognize just a small fraction of the groundbreaking work conducted over the past year.

Thanks to the dedication and talent of all those who work here, the remarkable generosity of our donors, and the active support of our colleagues across the institution, the future of UCSF Psychiatry could not be brighter.

Matthew W. State, MD, PhD

Oberndorf Family Distinguished Professor in Psychiatry Chair, Department of Psychiatry Director, Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute UCSF DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHIATRY 2016 YEAR IN REVIEW

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COMPASSIONATE CARE AND PUBLIC ADVOCACY

Roopa Grewal says the social stigma around mental illness in her culture prevented her from receiving treatment for decades.

Eliminating stigma is key to effectively treating mental illness In the 1940s, it was cancer. In the ’80s, it was HIV. Today, the condition that’s battling pervasive social stigma is mental illness.

As with cancer and HIV in the past, the stigma comes at a high cost: millions of Americans go untreated because of misconceptions and shame. “Mental illness is much like cancer 75 years ago, because it’s scary and unpredictable. And because it’s still mysterious, people want to keep their distance,” says Stephen Hinshaw, PhD, UCSF Psychiatry Vice Chair for Child and Adolescent Psychology.

Hinshaw, who has written several books about mental health stigma, is part of a growing movement in psychiatry to tackle the issues of stigma head-on and remove the barriers to treatment. He and his colleagues are focused not only on educating the public about the prevalence and treatability of mental illness, but also pushing for policy changes. One of the biggest changes is the push to approach all treatment through the lens of neuroscience – treating mental illness as a biological condition, interacting with contextual factors, instead of merely a social issue.

“Serious mental illnesses fundamentally are no different from cancer or heart disease,” says department chair Matthew State, MD, PhD, one of the leaders of the UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences. “The developing brain is particularly complex and we need a much better understanding of what’s causing those physiological disruptions and how to correct them.”

Everyone is impacted by mental illness The effects of the stigmatization are far-reaching in the United States. The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) estimated that nearly one in five adults in the country – 43.8 million – was living with a mental illness in 2014. The rate among youth is just as staggering – one in five people aged 13 to 18 have experienced a serious mental disorder at some point during their life, according to NIMH. Roopa Grewal says she felt like something was wrong with her as early as 5 years old when she would awake in the morning with horrible feelings. “I felt dirty and bad, basically like there was a black hole inside of me."

Grewal, who is Indian-American, says she told her parents about her feelings, but facing stigma within the South Asian culture, there wasn’t any movement toward addressing her condition.

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Only later, after she began cutting herself while a sophomore in high school, did her parents allow her to see a psychologist. Grewal says she began actively seeking mental health treatment from a psychiatrist as soon as she went to college, and it still took years to reach a proper diagnosis and receive treatment.

More than a decade passed before she was finally diagnosed by a psychiatrist, at the age of 32, as having borderline personality disorder. Today, Grewal is married, owns a home in San Francisco and is an advocate for mental health. She says she’s “living successfully” with borderline personality disorder.

What finally helped her was the right medication, combined with dialectical behavior therapy, she says.

“Getting diagnosed correctly worked.”

Battling self-stigma and social distance Others with a mental illness may not be as proactive about seeking out treatments if the stigma from society filters down to them.

“There is a high degree of what is called self-stigma,” which involves people taking on and internalizing societal stereotypes, Hinshaw says.

Researchers have created scales to measure how much a person stigmatizes himself or herself – high levels of self-stigma predict that people either won’t go to treatment or drop out early of treatment. He says it becomes a vicious cycle: Society stigmatizes, a person picks up the message and self-stigmatizes, he or she doesn’t get engaged in treatment, and the symptoms and impairments of mental illness are never tackled.

Compounding the problem is ostracism through what is known as social distance. Here, members of society rate how close they would be willing to be in contact with a certain group, such as living in the same city, being neighbors, being friends, dating, or allowing their child to marry.

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Americans are now more knowledgeable than ever about mental illness through things such as learning basic psychology in school and reading more about it in the media, but social distance has either stayed flat or gotten worse over the past half century, Hinshaw says. “People want to keep their distance from people with mental illness more than any other group in society.”

Media focus on acts of violence – linked with mental illness – is undoubtedly a key factor. Yet on average, he notes, people with most forms of mental illness are no more likely to exhibit aggression than others, though they are far more likely to be victimized by violence.

Shortage of mental health services The stigma people face is exacerbated by a shortage of mental health services, forcing many to live untreated or undertreated.

As millions more Americans become eligible for mental health coverage through the Affordable Care Act, the population of psychiatrists has not grown proportionally. According to a 2014 report by the Kaiser Family Foundation, only 44 percent of Californians’ mental health care needs are being met by the current availability of professionals.

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As for many people, State’s first encounter with the mental health system was a personal experience. While in his first year of medical school, a close friend of his had a psychotic break.

“Despite the best efforts of a really close group of friends, she ended up on the street,” State recounted. “She was here up at the Haight, sort of lost to her friends and family.”

The friend eventually was admitted to San Francisco General Hospital. State and a group of friends then worked over the course of a year to get her into and keep her in treatment. “It was a profoundly difficult and… disturbing experience to understand how broken the mental health system was,” he said.

“That system feels nearly impossible to navigate,” State said. “Even with private insurance and ample resources, if you have a loved one who is severely ill, there are few options but to pick up the phone and start calling anyone you know to try to find an available psychiatrist or gain access to a profoundly limited number of psychiatric beds.”

Experts believe that half of adults with a range of mental illnesses get treatment, but less than half of those people get the gold-standard treatment that they deserve, according to Hinshaw. “There is still very poor access to mental health treatments in the United States, and there is even poorer access to evidence-based treatments – the ones we know from studies really work.”

Changing minds and policies Hinshaw says the solution to ending stigma – and therefore getting more people the treatment they need – is multipronged and needs to include policy changes, better understanding about mental illness and especially more humanization of the illnesses.

Among the laws that need to be changed are the ones in many states that deny renewal of driver’s licenses as well as disallow service on a jury or the ability to run for office to people who have been admitted for a mental illness or even a history of one, Hinshaw says. Of the existing laws, he says the federal statues that are meant to enforce parity for insurance coverage for mental health issues need better enforcement.

On the more individual level, one fact that needs to be taught, he says, is that many people who have a mental illness – even serious ones such as schizophrenia – get better with treatment.

In a major effort to reach people who need care, UCSF’s Department of Psychiatry has embedded mental health providers in more than a dozen medical services across UCSF Health, ranging from neurology, to oncology, to pediatrics and internal medicine. It also is building a new state-of-the-art outpatient center adjacent to the Mission Bay campus that aims to break down the barriers between physical and mental health, with plans to house clinicians and scientists from psychiatry, psychology, pediatrics, neurology, and obstetrics and gynecology.

1 out of every 5 adults in America is living with a mental illness.

NIHM estimate, 2014

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On the research side, the UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences was recently established to integrate scientists studying the range of brain disorders. The closer alignment between the researchers is meant to promote research that seeks to understand the biological and genetic underpinnings of mental illnesses.

Hinshaw points out that the default in society is that mental health is still under a person's complete control, but research is revealing that the causes are primarily biological. Our understanding of the biological and genetic causes of mental illnesses still is developing as more research is done to understand the brain.

Studies revealing genetic and biological factors Large studies already are revealing genetic and biological factors and helping to point toward treatments. The best current research has shown that contexts switch on key genes – a combination of nature and nurture, Hinshaw says. For example, early trauma serves to intensify genetic vulnerability in many cases. Integrative models, rather than those that focus on false dichotomies, are essential.

The research from the last decade is finally starting to unearth the genetic contributions to serious psychiatric disorders. For instance, State and colleagues at UCSF and have led groundbreaking research efforts identifying more than 60 genes involved in autism spectrum disorders. The progress made in understanding schizophrenia has been just as dramatic, with recent large-scale studies pointing to more than 100 unique regions of the genome contributing to disease risk.

More such research about the brain and mental health is being funded by President Barack Obama’s Brain Initiative, including a project at UCSF that is seeking to identify the disrupted human brain circuitry involved in depression and anxiety. The project has the aim of creating devices that detect circuit aberrations and send corrective impulses to offset them.

The research at UCSF and elsewhere is going to transform the field, State says. “The scientific advances taking place now are laying the foundation for a new generation of therapies. This new understanding and the ability to do much more for patients is going to change the way that people think about mental illness – and finally eliminate the stigma that is associated with it.”

Roopa Grewal (center), who says she now is living successfully with borderline personality disorder, lives with her husband, Daniel Finkelstein, and their labrador retriever, Luke, in San Francisco.

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TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP

Over the past two years, UCSF Psychiatry has welcomed 50 new experts in clinical care, research, education, and administration to our faculty ranks.

New department members Marlene Guzman, MBA, MEd, MA

Associate Chair for Administration and Finance

Bryan King, MD, MBA

Professor Vice Chair for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Vice President of Child Behavioral Services, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals

Maga Jackson-Triche, MD, MSHS Health Sciences Clinical Professor Vice Chair for UCSF Health

Vice President of Adult Behavioral Health Services, UCSF Health

Lee Jones, MD

Health Sciences Clinical Professor

Associate Dean for Students, UCSF School of Medicine

Professor in Residence Vice Chair for Research

Michael Walker Chief of Staff

Erin Accurso, PhD

Sabrina Darrow, PhD

Assistant Adjunct Professor

Assistant Adjunct Professor

Bibhav Acharya, MD

Simon F. Desjardins, MD, MBA

Assistant Adjunct Professor

Health Sciences Assistant Clinical Professor

Maithri Ameresekere, MD

Yuriy Dobry, MD

Vanessa Bal, PhD

Susanna Fryer, PhD

Health Sciences Assistant Clinical Professor

Assistant Professor in Residence

Health Sciences Assistant Clinical Professor

Assistant Professor in Residence

Brian Borsari, PhD

Shanti Gooden, MD

Professor in Residence

Health Sciences Assistant Clinical Professor

Eric J. Chan, MD

Lisa Gunaydin, PhD

Health Sciences Assistant Clinical Professor

Assistant Professor in Residence

Caitlin Costello, MD

Keith Hermanstyne, MD, MPH

Jennifer Cummings, MD, MA

Felipe Jain, MD

Health Sciences Assistant Clinical Professor

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Health Sciences Assistant Clinical Professor

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Lawrence Kaplan, DO

Stuart Murray, PhD

Health Sciences Assistant Clinical Professor

Assistant Adjunct Professor

Allison Kaup, PhD

Tatjana Novakovic-Agopian, PhD

Assistant Adjunct Professor

Assistant Adjunct Professor

Mazen A. Kheirbek, PhD

Jessica PlauchĂŠ, MD

Assistant Professor in Residence

Health Sciences Assistant Clinical Professor

Kelly Koo, PhD

Vilma Reyes, PsyD

Devanand S. Manoli, MD, PhD

Emma Samelson-Jones, MD

Health Sciences Assistant Clinical Professor

Assistant Professor in Residence

Kathryn Mansuri, MD

Health Sciences Assistant Clinical Professor

Michael Marcin, MD, MSCR

Health Sciences Assistant Clinical Professor

Kate Margolis, MD

Health Sciences Assistant Clinical Professor

Tobias Marton, MD, PhD

Health Sciences Assistant Clinical Professor

Ashley Mason, PhD

Assistant Adjunct Professor

Health Sciences Assistant Clinical Professor

Health Sciences Assistant Clinical Professor

Stephan J. Sanders, BMBS, PhD Assistant Professor in Residence

Andreea L. Seritan, MD

Health Sciences Clinical Professor

Haniel Shen, MD

Health Sciences Assistant Clinical Professor

Petra Steinbuchel, MD

Health Sciences Assistant Clinical Professor

Dawn Sung, MD

Health Sciences Assistant Clinical Professor

Janet Miller, JD, PhD

Marina Tolou-Shams, PhD

Jyoti Mishra, PhD

Jeremy Willsey, PhD

Health Sciences Assistant Clinical Professor

Assistant Adjunct Professor

Jennifer Mitchell, PhD Assistant Adjunct Professor

Anna Victoria Molofsky, MD, PhD Assistant Professor in Residence

Associate Professor in Residence

Assistant Adjunct Professor

Eric Woodard, MD, MA

Health Sciences Associate Clinical Professor

Huaiyu Zhang, PhD, HSPP

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EXPLORING NEW FRONTIERS IN THE HUMAN BRAIN

Projects such as those conducted in Adam Gazzaley’s Neuroscape Lab combine cutting-edge technology with the expertise of UCSF scientists and clinicians.

Transforming research into everyday clinical care UCSF is leading revolutions in health – and those revolutions often start in the lab. From basic science to clinical research, we are constantly pushing scientific boundaries and earning worldwide recognition for our discoveries.

The Department of Psychiatry is a recognized leader in research with a deep and distinguished record of achievement spanning more than half a century. Our world-class psychiatrists, psychologists, and neuroscientists explore psychological, biological, and social processes as they may affect the cause, diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders as well as those that promote health, coping capacity, and life satisfaction.

We are dedicated to the discovery of better treatments, prevention strategies, and cures for neuropsychiatric disorders. Operating in one of the premier biomedical research institutions in the world, our research faculty members are conducting state of the art basic, clinical, and translational research aimed at improving the care of people with mental illness.

As part of the new UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences, the Department of Psychiatry is poised to leverage UCSF’s unrivaled bench-to-bedside excellence in the neurosciences to solve some of the most complex challenges of the human brain and transform mental health. In 2016 alone, our researchers contributed to more than 450 peer-reviewed scientific papers published in some of the world’s most prestigious medical research journals, revolutionizing our understanding of the most serious psychiatric illnesses, including autism, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, substance abuse, depression, and anxiety.

“The future lies in breaking down of silos between psychiatry, neurology and neurosurgery, and the integration of clinical and basic neuroscience. It is hard to imagine a more exciting environment in which to be working on these extremely challenging problems.”

- UCSF Department of Psychiatry Chair Matthew W. State, MD, PhD To find out more, visit psychiatry.ucsf.edu/research or scan this with your mobile device.

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EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION

Training tomorrow’s leaders The UCSF Department of Psychiatry is nationally recognized for its outstanding educational programs in medical school, residency programs, clinical fellowships, research fellowships, and continuing medical education. More than 180 full-time and 200 volunteer clinical faculty members provide training to 600 medical students, 60 general psychiatry residents, 13 psychiatry fellows, and more than 70 pre/postdoctoral trainees in clinical psychology, social work, nursing, and rehabilitation therapy.

Set in one of the nation’s most ethnically and culturally diverse urban environments, our educational programs offer a wide variety of clinical, research, and policy training options for the next generation of leaders in the field of psychiatry. Our current program offerings include: • Medical student courses • General psychiatry residency

• Clinical fellowships in addiction psychiatry, child and adolescent psychiatry, forensic psychiatry, geriatric psychiatry, global mental health, psychosomatic medicine, and public psychiatry

• Clinical psychology training • Intensive pratice-based training • Rehabilitation services clinical training

• Research fellowships in affective science training, clinical services, dementia and PTSD treatment, drug abuse treatment and services, health psychology, neurosciences research, VA psychology, and women’s health

• Continuing medical education courses for physicians, psychologists, MFTs and LCSWs, nurses, pharmacists and allied health care professionals Throughout our history, the department has held a strong commitment to basic and clinical research training.

Our trainees have access to a wide variety of inpatient and outpatient programs at UCSF that provide subspecialty care and serve as a setting for clinical psychiatric research, as well as comprehensive programs to support and nurture those interested in pursuing careers in all aspects of mental health research.

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A HISTORY OF SERVICE

“This clinic is a place for the pursuit of science, and an example of its application to the most humanitarian of objectives: the saving of human minds and lives.”

- Gov. Culbert L. Olsen April 5, 1941

Langley Porter Psychiatric Hospitals and Clinics celebrates 75 years On April 5, 1941, dignitaries and guests gathered on an empty plot of land along Parnassus Avenue for a momentous occasion. The crowd, which included politicians, physicians, press, and curious members of the general public, was assembled to witness the laying of the cornerstone of the first neuropsychiatric institute in the state of California.

After delivering their prepared remarks, Governor Culbert L. Olson, UC Medical School Dean Emeritus Robert Langley Porter, MD, and UC President Robert G. Sproul, spread cement with a trowel and placed the large cornerstone - along with time capsule it contained - into the wall of what would be officially named later that afternoon as the Langley Porter Clinic.

Not only did the ceremony officially marked the beginning of construction of the state’s first modern psychiatric hospital, it also signified the end of a long and sometimes tortuous process which involved decades of false starts, meticulous negotiations between state agencies, and the outbreak of two world wars.

The California State Legislature first passed a bill in 1913 authorizing the construction of a psychiatric research and clinical institution in the Bay Area, but it wouldn't be until late 1942 that the Langley Porter Clinic began seeing its first patients under inaugural director Karl M. Bowman, MD. It was a state hospital run independently from the university until 1973, when the facility was formally transferred over to the control of the University of California and placed within UCSF's academic Department of Psychiatry.

Over the following 75 years, the name of the facility has changed several times - first to the Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute, then Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute, and finally the Langley Porter Psychiatric Hospital & Clinics - and innumerable noted clinicians, researchers, and educators have walked through its halls, both as guests and as faculty. Today, it continues to serve as one of the Bay Area’s premier centers for mental health clinical services, research, and education.

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Pic. 1: (Left to right) UC School of Medicine Dean Emeritus Langley Porter, MD; Governor Culbert L. Olson; and UC President Robert G. Sproul lay the cornerstone for the Langley Porter Clinic Pic. 2: Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute in 1966 Pic. 3: Langley Porter, MD, speaks during the hospital’s cornernstone laying ceremony Pic. 4: Langley Porter Clinic in 1950, before the construction of Moffitt and Long Hospitals Pic. 5: Langley Porter Clinic in 1942 UCSF DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHIATRY 2016 YEAR IN REVIEW

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A VISION FOR TOMORROW

“Public service is one of our core missions. This new facility will help us bring the benefits of UCSF’s world-class research and clinical care to the most vulnerable populations in our region.”

- UCSF Chancellor Sam Hawgood, MBBS

Building the future of mental health Thanks to an anonymous $50 million gift, planning for a new home for the Department of Psychiatry is well underway. The building will be located in San Francisco’s historic Dogpatch neighborhood, adjacent to the UCSF Mission Bay campus, and is scheduled to open in the spring of 2020.

The facility will feature a new Child, Teen and Family Center, outpatient psychiatric services, and multiple innovative cross-disciplinary, cross-departmental clinical and clinical research programs. The building will also feature a state-of-the-art convening center to host departmental grand rounds, the distinguished visiting lecturer series, and a wide array of training programs aimed at disseminating new research and best clinical practices to the broader Bay Area, national, and international mental health communities.

The building is a centerpiece in UCSF’s plan to create a center for excellence in mental health which encompasses clinical care, research, and training. It will bring together clinicians and researchers from multiple disciplines to address the most important problems in psychiatry, psychology, and related fields – including prevention and community outreach, the integration of pediatric and adult medicine with psychiatric care, and the development of novel and improved treatments.

Offering a full array of patient- and family-centered services at a single location, the facilty will combine outstanding medical/pediatric and psychiatric care with opportunities for patients and families to participate in cutting-edge clinical research. The Child, Teen and Family Center will also serve as a nexus for collaborations with UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals, UC Berkeley, and community programs aimed at supporting and advancing child, adolescent, and young adult mental health.

Professor of Neurology, Physiology, and Psychiatry Adam Gazzaley, MD, PhD (center), shares his ideas for the new building during a department design retreat in August.

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Although construction is not anticipated to begin until 2018, department faculty, staff, and trainees have already been working for more than a year with developers, architects, and project partners across UCSF to design a building which will facilitate patient-centered clinical care, transformative research, innovative education, and collaboration between disciplines.

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