About
Division of Medical Psychiatry
The Division of Medical Psychiatry at Stanford was created in 2021 to integrate the delivery of mental health to multiple clinics and medical services throughout the Stanford medical care system including Stanford Health Care (SHC), Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital/Stanford Children's Hospital (LPCH), and Stanford University School of Medicine (SOM).
Our services are provided in multiple settings in collaboration with a variety of medico-surgical specialty services in both out-patient clinics and inpatient clinical units. Members and affiliated professionals include a multidisciplinary team of psychiatrists, advance practice providers, nurse practitioners, clinical case managers, and social workers with expertise in general psychiatry, consultation-liaison psychiatry, psycho-oncology, addiction medicine, medical hypnosis, acupuncture, mindfulness, medical nutrition, and forensic medicine.
Members of the Division of Medical Psychiatry have been pioneers in the expert understanding the biomedical basis of disease processes and the psychiatric manifestations and treatments of numerous medical disorders, such as delirium, central anticholinergic syndrome, and alcohol withdrawal. Through their research activities and clinical expertise, our team has had a unique role in shaping and setting the standards for the field of psychiatry in medicine.