Harbor-UCLA PSYCHIATRY

OUR FACULTY

Our faculty is comprised of physicians and psychologists committed to the GME mission of education that improves patient care.  Psychiatry faculty maintain academic teaching appointments with the UCLA Geffen School of Medicine.

PROFESSOR

Karl Burgoyne, M.D.

  • Medical School:  USC
  • Residency:  USC
  • Clinical Interests:  GME, pharmacology education
  • Research Interests:  pharmacologic and device-based trials

Bowen Chung, M.D.

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Julia Chung, M.D.

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Deborah Flores, M.D.

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Benjamin Furst, M.D.

  • Medical School:  University of California, Los Angeles
  • Residency:  University of California, Los Angeles NPI/West Los Angeles VAMC
  • Clinical Interests:  Cross-cultural psychiatry, psychopharmacology, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder

Charles Grob, M.D.

  • Medical School:  State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center
  • Residency:  Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco; Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles
  • Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship:  The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore
  • Clinical Interests:  Mood disorders in children, adolescents and young adults; atypical neurodevelopment; palliative medicine; substance abuse and self-medication
  • Research Interests:  Psychedelic research (specifically psilocybin, MDMA and ayahuasca); psilocybin treatment near the end-of-life; MDMA treatment of social anxiety in autistics; cross-cultural studies of plant hallucinogen use

Michael Makhinson, M.D., Ph.D.

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Kathleen McKenna, M.D.

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Warren Procci, M.D.

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Mary Read, M.D.

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Astrid Reina, Ph.D.

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John Tsuang, M.D.

  • Medical School:  University of Iowa
  • Residency:  University of California, San Diego
  • Clinical Interests:  Issues relating to dual diagnosis disorders and AAPI psychiatric issues
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ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

Samson J. Cho, M.D.

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Nadia Del-Pan, M.D.

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Patrick Kelly, M.D.

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David Rad, M.D., Associate Professor

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Dorit Saberi, Ph.D., Associate Professor

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Matthew Wright, Ph.D., Associate Professor

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ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

Andrea Caldwell, M.D.

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Juliana Gomez-Makhinson, M.D.

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Janice Jones, Ph.D.

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Eric Noble, M.D.

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Michelle Tawa, M.D.

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Weiguo Zhu, M.D., Ph.D.

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Todd Zorick, M.D., Ph.D.

  • Medical School:  University of California, San Diego; Ph.D. UCSD Neurosciences
  • Residency:  University of California, Los Angeles NPI
  • Clinical Interests:  Addiction, inpatient psychiatry
  • Research Interests:  EEG as a tool to study psychiatric illness

Hoda Abou-Ziab, Ph.D.

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VISITING ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

Amber Bridges, M.D.

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Lynette Lau, Ph.D.

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CLINICAL INSTRUCTOR

C. Edward Castelo, M.D.

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Vivian Tang, M.D.

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