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Residents, Leadership, and Alumni facts

  • Bazif Bala, MD

    Bazif Bala, MD

    Undergraduate: Brown University
    Medical School: W. Alpert Medical School, Brown University


  • Snehal Bindra, MD, MBA

    Snehal Bindra, MD, MBA

    Undergraduate: University of California, Los Angeles
    MBA: Vanderbilt University, Owen Graduate School of Management
    Medical School: Vanderbilt University School of Medicine


  • Laura Bloomfield, MD, PhD, MS <br><i>Social Medicine & Humanities Research Track

    Laura Bloomfield, MD, PhD, MS
    Social Medicine & Humanities Research Track

    Undergraduate: Stanford University
    MS: Stanford University
    PhD: Stanford University
    Medical School: Stanford University School of Medicine


  • Cyrus Buckman, MD, MBA

    Cyrus Buckman, MD, MBA

    Undergraduate: Earlham College and Earlham School of Religion
    MBA: Stanford University
    Medical School: Stanford University School of Medicine


  • Yan-Yang Feng, MD, PhD <br><i>Neuroscience Research Track

    Yan-Yang Feng, MD, PhD
    Neuroscience Research Track

    Undergraduate: Yale University
    PhD: Washington University, St. Louis School of Medicine
    Medical School: Washington University, St. Louis School of Medicine


  • Sandon Griffin, MD, PhD <br><i>Neuroscience Research Track

    Sandon Griffin, MD, PhD
    Neuroscience Research Track

    Undergraduate: University of California, Berkeley
    PhD: University of California, San Francisco
    Medical School: University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine


  • Henna Hundal, MD, MPP

    Henna Hundal, MD, MPP

    Undergraduate: Harvard University
    MPP: McGill University, Quebec (CAN)
    Medical School: Stanford University School of Medicine


  • Jahmil Lacey, MD, MSc <br><i>Public & Community Track

    Jahmil Lacey, MD, MSc
    Public & Community Track

    Undergraduate: Morehouse College
    MSc: London School of Economics and Political Science (GBR)
    Medical School: UCLA/Charles R Drew University of Medicine and Science


  • Austin Matheis, MD

    Austin Matheis, MD

    Undergraduate: Arizona State University
    Medical School: University of Texas Southwestern Medical School


  • Sai Shanthanand Rajagopal, MD, MSc, MBA, MS

    Sai Shanthanand Rajagopal, MD, MSc, MBA, MS

    Undergraduate: Harvard University
    MSc: Harvard University
    MS: Oxford University (GBR)
    MBA: Oxford University (GBR)
    Medical School: Harvard Medical School


  • Camille Spencer-Salmon, MD, PhD <br><i>Public & Community Track

    Camille Spencer-Salmon, MD, PhD
    Public & Community Track

    Undergraduate: Brown University
    PhD: Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai
    Medical School: Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai


  • Natalie Swartz, MD

    Natalie Swartz, MD

    Undergraduate: Harvard University
    Medical School: Harvard Medical School


  • Shivani Thakur, MD

    Shivani Thakur, MD

    Undergraduate: Harvard University
    Medical School: Georgetown University School of Medicine


  • Diane Zhao, MD, MBA

    Diane Zhao, MD, MBA

    Undergraduate: University of California, Los Angeles
    MBA: Yale School of Management
    Medical School: Yale School of Medicine


  • Layla Aboukhater, MD, MBA, MPH

    Layla Aboukhater, MD, MBA, MPH

    Undergraduate: Boston College
    MPH: Johns Hopkins, Bloomberg School of Public Health
    MBA: Stanford Graduate School of Business
    Medical School: Stanford University School of Medicine


  • Dorothy Adu-Amankwah, MD

    Dorothy Adu-Amankwah, MD

    Undergraduate: Duke University
    Medical School: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai


  • Nakul Aggarwal, MD, PhD <br><i>Neuroscience Research Track

    Nakul Aggarwal, MD, PhD
    Neuroscience Research Track

    Undergraduate: University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
    PhD: University of Wisconsin, Madison
    Medical School: University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health


  • Melody Brown-Clark, MD <br><i>Public & Community Track

    Melody Brown-Clark, MD
    Public & Community Track

    Undergraduate: University of Southern California
    Medical School: Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine


  • Geoffrey Engel, MD, PhD, MA <br><i>Social Medicine & Humanities Research Track

    Geoffrey Engel, MD, PhD, MA
    Social Medicine & Humanities Research Track

    Undergraduate: State University of New York, Stony Brook
    Graduate: Fordham University
    Medical School: Harvard Medical School


  • Samvel Gyurdzhyan, MD, MS

    Samvel Gyurdzhyan, MD, MS

    Undergraduate: University of California, Los Angeles
    MS: Stanford University
    Medical School: Stanford University School of Medicine


  • Brandon Hankerson, MD, MPH

    Brandon Hankerson, MD, MPH

    Undergraduate: University of California, Los Angeles
    MPH: Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
    Medical School: UCLA/Drew Medical Education Program


  • David King, MBBS <br><i>Social Medicine & Humanities Research Track

    David King, MBBS
    Social Medicine & Humanities Research Track

    Undergraduate: University of Kent, Canterbury (UK)
    Medical School: King's College London GKT School of Medicine


  • Elizabeth (Liza) Magill, MD, MPH

    Elizabeth (Liza) Magill, MD, MPH

    Undergraduate: Boston College
    MPH: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
    Medical School: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai


  • Sudiptho Paul, MD, MS

    Sudiptho Paul, MD, MS

    Undergraduate: Yale University
    MS: Georgetown University
    Medical School: University of Washington School of Medicine


  • Elijah Persad, MD

    Elijah Persad, MD

    Undergraduate: New York University
    Medical School: W. Alpert Medical School, Brown University


  • Austin Valido, MD

    Austin Valido, MD

    Undergraduate: Harvard University
    Medical School: Stanford University School of Medicine


  • David Wang, MD, PhD <br><i>Neuroscience Research Track

    David Wang, MD, PhD
    Neuroscience Research Track

    Undergraduate: Princeton University PhD: Stanford University
    Medical School: Stanford University School of Medicine


  • Jessica (Jess) Wang, MD <br><i>Public & Community Track

    Jessica (Jess) Wang, MD
    Public & Community Track

    Undergraduate: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
    Medical School: Harvard Medical School


  • Gabriela Asturias, MD <br><i>Community Track

    Gabriela Asturias, MD
    Community Track

    Undergraduate: Duke University
    Medical School: Stanford University School of Medicine


  • Allen Chen, MD, PhD, MSc <br><i>Research Track

    Allen Chen, MD, PhD, MSc
    Research Track

    Undergraduate: University of California, San Diego
    MSc: University of California, San Diego
    PhD: Stony Brook University
    Medical School: Renaissance School of Medicine, Stony Brook University


  • Amelia Dmowska, MS, MD

    Amelia Dmowska, MS, MD

    Undergraduate: University of Chicago
    MS: University of California, Berkeley
    Medical School: University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine


  • Melissa Gonzalez, MD <br><i>Community Track

    Melissa Gonzalez, MD
    Community Track

    Undergraduate: George Washington University
    Medical School: University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine


  • John Havlik, MD, MBA <br><i>Social Medicine and Humanities

    John Havlik, MD, MBA
    Social Medicine and Humanities

    Undergraduate: University of Chicago
    MBA: Yale School of Management
    Medical School: Yale School of Medicine


  • Tonatiuh Liévano Beltrán, MD

    Tonatiuh Liévano Beltrán, MD

    Undergraduate: Harvard University
    Graduate: Tsinghua University – Schwarzman Scholars, Beijing
    Medical School: Harvard Medical School


  • Peter Pralahad Raman, MD, MEd

    Peter Pralahad Raman, MD, MEd

    Undergraduate: University of Texas, Austin
    MEd: University of Texas, Austin
    Medical School: University of Texas, Austin, Dell Medical School


  • Miguel Ramirez Sanchez, MD

    Miguel Ramirez Sanchez, MD

    Undergraduate: Texas A&M University, San Antonio
    Medical School: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine


  • Theo Stoddard-Bennett, MD

    Theo Stoddard-Bennett, MD

    Undergraduate: Brigham Young University
    Medical School: University of California, Los Angeles, Geffen School of Medicine


  • Nathan Swetlitz, MS, MD

    Nathan Swetlitz, MS, MD

    Undergraduate: Yale University
    MS: University of California, Berkeley
    Medical School: University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine


  • Keith Thomas, MD, JD

    Keith Thomas, MD, JD

    Undergraduate: Brown University
    JD: Harvard Law School
    Medical School: University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine


  • Donna Tran, MD, MPH

    Donna Tran, MD, MPH

    Undergraduate: University of California, Davis
    MPH: Johns Hopkins, Bloomberg School of Public Health
    Medical School: Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, Grand Rapids


  • Camille Wang, MD, PhD <br><i>Research Track

    Camille Wang, MD, PhD
    Research Track

    Undergraduate: Cornell University
    PhD: Vanderbilt University
    Medical School: Vanderbilt University School of Medicine


  • Maha Zubaidi, MD, MS

    Maha Zubaidi, MD, MS

    Undergraduate: University of California, San Diego
    MS: University of California, San Francisco
    Medical School: Stanford University School of Medicine


  • Sahar Ashrafzadeh, MD <br><i>Community Track

    Sahar Ashrafzadeh, MD
    Community Track

    Undergraduate: Harvard University
    Medical School: University of California, Los Angeles, Geffen School of Medicine


  • Thomas Beck, MD, PhD

    Thomas Beck, MD, PhD

    Undergraduate: Haverford College PhD: Yale University
    Medical School: Stanford University School of Medicine


  • Beza Dagne, MD

    Beza Dagne, MD

    Undergraduate: Stanford University
    Medical School: University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine


  • Charles Dickey, MD, PhD <br><i>Research Track

    Charles Dickey, MD, PhD
    Research Track

    Undergraduate: University of Washington
    PhD: University of California, San Diego
    Medical School: University of California, San Diego School of Medicine


  • Chesley Ekelem, MD

    Chesley Ekelem, MD

    Undergraduate: Harvard University
    Medical School: Vanderbilt University School of Medicine


  • Chanae Hardamon, MD, MS <br><i>Community Track

    Chanae Hardamon, MD, MS
    Community Track

    Undergraduate: University of California, San Diego
    MS: University of California, San Diego MS: Stanford University
    Medical School: University of California, Los Angeles, Geffen School of Medicine


  • Sherod Haynes, MD, PhD <br><i>Research Track

    Sherod Haynes, MD, PhD
    Research Track

    Undergraduate: Carleton College
    PhD: Emory University
    Medical School: Georgetown University School of Medicine


  • Katherine Hefcart, MD, MSPH

    Katherine Hefcart, MD, MSPH

    Undergraduate: Stanford University
    MSPH: Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
    Medical School: Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth


  • Elizabeth Li, MD, MS

    Elizabeth Li, MD, MS

    Undergraduate: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Medical School: Yale School of Medicine


  • Stacie Ong, MD

    Stacie Ong, MD

    Undergraduate: University of California, Berkeley
    Medical School: Stanford University School of Medicine


  • Josh Taylor, MD

    Josh Taylor, MD

    Undergraduate: University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Medical School: Stanford University School of Medicine


  • Lauren Tronick, MD

    Lauren Tronick, MD

    Undergraduate: Yale University
    Medical School: University of California, San Diego School of Medicine


  • Amelia Abbott-Frey, MD

    Amelia Abbott-Frey, MD

    Undergraduate: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
    Medical School: Columbia University, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons


  • Ellie Beam, MD, PhD <br><i>Research Track

    Ellie Beam, MD, PhD
    Research Track

    Undergraduate: Duke University
    PhD: Stanford University
    Medical School: Stanford University School of Medicine


  • Daniel Bernstein, MD, MS, MA

    Daniel Bernstein, MD, MS, MA

    Undergraduate: Pomona College
    MA: Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies
    MS: Stanford University, Graduate School of Business
    Medical School: Stanford University School of Medicine Residency: Kaiser Permanente, San Jose, CA


  • Chinelo Egbosiuba, MD, MBA <br><i>Community Track

    Chinelo Egbosiuba, MD, MBA
    Community Track

    Undergraduate: University of Georgia, Athens
    MBA: Georgia Institute of Technology
    Medical School: Morehouse School of Medicine


  • Ihu Erondu, MD

    Ihu Erondu, MD

    Undergraduate: Santa Clara University
    Medical School: Rush Medical College, Rush University Medical Center


  • Vivian Ho, MD

    Vivian Ho, MD

    Undergraduate: Stanford University
    Medical School: Stanford University School of Medicine


  • Zachary Jacobs, MD <br><i>Community Track

    Zachary Jacobs, MD
    Community Track

    Undergraduate: Yale University
    Medical School: University of California, Los Angeles, Geffen School of Medicine


  • Madina Jahed, MD

    Madina Jahed, MD

    Undergraduate: San Jose State University
    Medical School: University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson


  • Hannah Joo, MD, PhD <br><i>Research Track

    Hannah Joo, MD, PhD
    Research Track

    Undergraduate: Johns Hopkins University
    PhD: University of California, San Francisco
    Medical School: University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine


  • Mikaela Kelly, MD, MPH

    Mikaela Kelly, MD, MPH

    Undergraduate: Stanford University
    MPH: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
    Medical School: Charles R. Drew/UCLA Medical Education Program
    Residency: University of California, San Francisco


  • Katerina Protsenko, MD, MAS

    Katerina Protsenko, MD, MAS

    Undergraduate: Providence College
    MAS: University of California, San Francisco
    Medical School: University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine


  • Chace Shaw, MD

    Chace Shaw, MD

    Undergraduate: Harvard University
    Medical School: University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine


  • Jacob Svenson, MD

    Jacob Svenson, MD

    Undergraduate: Stanford University
    Medical School: University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
    Residency: AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center


  • Sam Vesuna, MD, PhD <br><i>Research Track

    Sam Vesuna, MD, PhD
    Research Track

    Undergraduate: Yale University
    PhD: Stanford University
    Medical School: University of California, Irvine School of Medicine


  • Chanel Zhan, MD

    Chanel Zhan, MD

    Undergraduate: Williams College
    Medical School: Duke University School of Medicine


  • Chris Hayward, MD, MPH

    Chris Hayward, MD, MPH

    Program Director


    Growing up I wanted to dramatically change education in schools, making education less rigid and more person-centered. Years later I have been fortunate enough to become an educator, as the Adult Division Chief and Residency Program Director at Stanford. My core beliefs about education are unchanged. My philosophy places residents as central participants in shaping and defining their training, promoting involvement in program improvement, and prioritizing well-being. The training structure here is dynamic by design. Residents who actively participate in the creation of their training experience flourish here. For me, residency training is first and foremost about education, and education is best when accounting for individual differences while sharing common goals.

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  • Anita Kishore, MD, FAPA, DFAACAP

    Anita Kishore, MD, FAPA, DFAACAP

    Associate Program Director


    Dr. Anita Kishore is a Child, Adolescent and Adult Psychiatrist whose passion is educational innovation and advocacy. She completed her Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship at the Yale Child Study Center. She is a U.S. State Department Fulbright Global Scholar where she has built and strengthened mentorship in psychiatry for trainees around the world as well as built an international collaborative mentorship network to connect them, with the goal of increasing access to psychiatric services worldwide. She also serves as the Chair of the Wellness Subcommittee for the School of Medicine Faculty Senate. She has completed the Harvard Macy Institute Program for Educators in the Health Professions and was honored to be a recipient of the Chairman’s Award for Excellence in Education. As Associate Program Director, Dr. Kishore focuses on wellness, mentorship, psychotherapy, training in child and adolescent psychiatry as well as global health.

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  • Jarrod Ehrie, MD

    Jarrod Ehrie, MD

    Assistant Program Director


    Dr. Ehrie is an interventional psychiatrist who sees patients in the Stanford Depression Clinic and provides interventional treatments including electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), and ketamine. He is the director of the outpatient SAINT TMS clinical service, and he also helps conduct clinical trials in the Brain Stimulation Lab. In his role as Assistant Program Director, Dr. Ehrie focuses on the didactic curriculum, and he loves nothing more than to have residents drop by his office to check in or chat.

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  • Samuel Saenz, MD, MPH

    Samuel Saenz, MD, MPH

    Assistant Program Director


    Dr. Saenz is a public and community psychiatrist and a proud alumnus of Stanford’s psychiatry residency program. As a clinician, he cares for patients in several of the department’s diversity-focused clinics, including La Clinica Latina and THRIVE, and at La Clinica de la Raza, a federally qualified health center serving Alameda county. He also supervises residents in multiple teaching clinics, supporting their clinical development and commitment to underserved populations.

    In his role as Assistant Program Director, Dr. Saenz contributes to the development of the residency program’s public/community psychiatry track and helps shape the social and community psychiatry didactics for all residents. He also leads policy initiatives related to the program’s call and jeopardy systems. His professional interests include advancing health equity, mentoring the next generation of diverse mental health providers, and strengthening community-based psychiatric care through education and advocacy.

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Psychiatry Residency Program Alumni

Recent graduates have spent their early careers as...

Fellows in:

Addiction Medicine at Stanford University, Medical College of Georgia
Addiction Psychiatry at UCSF
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Stanford University, UCSF, USC, University of Colorado
Community Psychiatry at UCSF, Columbia University
Neuropsychiatry at Stanford University
Psychosomatic Medicine at Stanford University
Student Mental Health at Stanford University
T32 Research Fellowship at Stanford University
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training at San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis
Palo Alto Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training Program

Instructors & Assistant Professors at:

Stanford University
UCLA
UCSF
USC
University of Colorado
University of Pennsylania
University of Texas Austin
Washington University in St. Louis

Affiliated Clinical Instructors & Assistant Professors at:

Palo Alto Veterans Affairs Hospital
Kaiser Permanente
Stanford University Vaden Health Center CAPS
Medical Directors at:
Palo Alto Veterans Affairs Hospital
Momentum for Mental Health
UCLA Health
Kaiser Permanente
Family Health Centers of San Diego
Khalil Center Bay Area
Lyra Health
Centennial Peaks Hospital

Staff Psychiatrists at:

Momentum for Mental Health, San Jose, CA
Santa Clara Valley Psychiatric Emergency Services, San Jose, CA
University Medical Center of El Paso, TX
Foothill Community Health Clinic, San Jose, CA
Kaiser Permanente
Palo Alto Medical Foundation
Palo Alto Veterans Affairs Hospital
Baywell Psychiatry Group, San Francisco, CA
Comprehensive Psychiatric Services, Daly City, CA
Northern Navajo Medical Center, Shiprock, NM
Pacific Coast Psychiatric Associates, San Francisco, CA
UC Santa Cruz Counseling and Psychological Services
Ginger.io

Private Practitioners in:

Palo Alto, CA
Mountain View, CA
Redwood City, CA
Portola Valley, CA
San Mateo, CA
San Francisco, CA
Santa Cruz, CA
Los Angeles, CA
Cambridge, MA