Patient Care
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.
Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Service
The inpatient Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry (CLP) Service provides consultation throughout the hospital’s 23 medical/surgical units for the management of psychiatric conditions arising within the context of medical and surgical conditions. Our team provides a wide range of treatment recommendations to patients while hospitalized including pharmacotherapy, hypnosis, cognitive-behavioral management plans, brief supportive psychotherapy, alterations in the milieu, meetings with family or members of support system and recommend interventions by other disciplines such as neurology, social work, the spiritual care, or rehabilitation services. Our team consists of full time CLP attending physicians, CLP fellow physicians, second-year psychiatry resident physicians, internal medicine or neurology resident physicians, and medical students.
Psychiatric
Oncology
The Psychiatric Oncology Service includes teams at both the Comprehensive Cancer Center (CCC) as well as the Inpatient Proactive Psychosocial Oncology Service. Our team provides treatment and support to patients at various stages of a cancer diagnosis in both the inpatient and outpatient settings. We closely collaborate with both the inpatient and outpatient oncology teams. Our team consists of full time CLP attending physicians, CLP fellows, and social workers.
Critical Care
Psychiatry Service
The Critical Care Psychiatry (CCP) Service provides consultation to Stanford’s 10 specialized critical care units for management of psychiatric conditions arising within the context of critical illness. Our team provides a wide range of treatment recommendations to patients in the ICU setting including pharmacotherapy, hypnosis, cognitive-behavioral management plans, brief supportive psychotherapy, alterations in the milieu, meetings with family or members of support system and recommend interventions by other disciplines such as neurology, social work, the spiritual care, or rehabilitation services. Our team consists of full time CLP attending physicians, CLP fellow physicians, second-year psychiatry resident physicians, internal medicine or neurology resident physicians, and medical students.
Transplant
Psychiatry
The Transplant Psychiatry Service provides pre-transplant psychiatric evaluation, screening of prospective living donors, post-transplant management of psychiatric complications, and inpatient consults of transplantation patients. Our team consists of full time CLP attending physicians and CLP fellows with close collaboration with the transplant surgery teams and social workers.
Integrative
Medicine
The Center for Integrative Medicine combines the best of mental (meditation, hypnosis), nutritional, acupuncture, and lifestyle treatments with mainstream modern medicine and psychotherapy to provide care for the whole person: mind and body. Started in 1998, the Stanford Center for Integrative Medicine (SCIM) is committed to evidence-based practices. We are here to help you live more fully, cope better with your medical condition, control symptoms, and participate more fully in your medical care. Learn more
Emergency
Psychiatry
The Emergency Psychiatry Service at Stanford provides evaluation, stabilization, and treatment for patients presenting to the Stanford Emergency Department with psychiatric and/or substance-related emergencies. Our team operates a dedicated Psychiatric Emergency section in the Department, as well as performs consultations to the other units in the Emergency Department. Our team consists of full time attending physicians, first- and second-year psychiatry resident physicians, advanced practice providers (APPs), social workers, and case managers.
Integrated
Behavioral Health
The Integrated Behavioral Health (IBH) Service provides a collaborative treatment model in Stanford’s primary care clinics to expand access for patients to psychiatric service. Working in conjunction with the primary care physicians, nursing staff, social workers, and case managers, our IBH psychiatry team serves to provide psychiatric treatment and support to patients in Stanford’s primary care clinics. These include clinics at Stanford Medical Center, Los Altos, and Portola Valley. Similar IBH programs are also operational in employer-based clinics in partnership with Cisco, Qualcomm, and Yahoo clinic sites. Lastly, the IBH team manages the e-consultation program for psychiatry that serves the primary care providers in the Stanford Healthcare system.