Alissa Peterson, MD
Professor
Psychiatry
School of Medicine

Dr Alissa (Riesner) Peterson is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She is a graduate of UCSF Medical School and Psychiatry Residency Training Program. In 2009, she joined the clinical faculty at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital (ZSFG) as an attending physician on the inpatient psychiatry service. Since July 2022, she has served as the interim Program Director for the UCSF Adult Psychiatry Residency Training Program.

Awards

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• American Medical Student Association (AMSA) Women Leaders In Medicine Award, AMSA, 2018
• Induction into the UCSF Academy of Medical Educators, UCSF, 2017
• Department of Psychiatry Faculty Fellowship in Education, UCSF, 2013-2015
• Teaching Scholars Program, UCSF, 2013-2014
• Haile T. Debas Academy of Medical Educators Excellence in Teaching Award, UCSF, 2012

Education & Training

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• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training University of California 2018
• Residency School of Medicine University of California, San Francisco 2007
• M.D. School of Medicine University of California, San Francisco 2003

Interests

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• curriculum development in medical education
• chronic mental illness in underserved populations
• women’s mental health
• medical student/resident education and well-being
• trauma
• emergency psychiatry

Websites

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• Profile at UCSF Department of Psychiatry (psych.ucsf.edu)

Publications (10)

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• Improving Hepatitis C Screening in Inpatient Psychiatry.
  Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) 2022 Oji NM, Lakatos K, Peterson A
• Longitudinality Matters: Qualitative Perspectives on a Longitudinal Clinical Experience in a Psychiatry Residency Training Program.
  Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry 2022 Kinasz K, Hasser C, Hung E, Pinard KA, Treiman S, Peterson A
• Impact of an Innovative Endowed Chair Program on Medical Educator Recipients.
  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2022 Chin-Hong P, Loeser H, Peterson A, Ramachandran R, O'Sullivan PS
• Vaccinating Patients with SMI: One Public Hospital's Experience
  Psychiatric News 2021 Kinasz, K & Peterson, A
• Building Skills and Creating Change in the Healthcare System Through Public Psychiatry Fellowship Capstone Projects.
  Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry 2019 Elser A, Thomas M, Tolou-Shams M, Peterson A, Seal J, Dilley J, Mangurian C

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• Smoking Cessation Counseling on Inpatient Psychiatric Units.
  Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) 2019 Holler JT, Borowsky H, Peterson A
• A Women's Health Clinic for a Safety-Net Inpatient Psychiatry Unit: Project PETIT.
  Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) 2018 James M, Peterson A, Mangurian C
• Women's Reproductive Mental Health Across the Lifespan (Barnes DL, ed)
  Chronic Mental Illness in Pregnancy and Postpartum 2014 Nau ML, Peterson AM
• Psychological complications of patients with Gaucher disease.
  Journal of inherited metabolic disease 2006 Packman W, Wilson Crosbie T, Riesner A, Fairley C, Packman S
• A comparison of the early inflammatory effects of an agr-/sar- versus a wild type strain of Staphylococcus aureus in a rat model of endophthalmitis.
  Current eye research 1999 Giese MJ, Berliner JA, Riesner A, Wagar EA, Mondino BJ