Anna Fiskin, MD, MS
Assistant Clinical Professor
Psychiatry
School of Medicine
Anna Fiskin is a psychiatrist with training in medical anthropology who specializes in cultural psychiatry and global mental health. She is a currently the assistant medical director at Chinatown North Beach Mental Health Services, where she works with a diverse patient population from China, Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam.
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She is the one of the directors of the Cultural Psychiatry Area of Distinction for UCSF Psychiatry residency and the faculty lead in Cultural Psychiatry for UCSF Psychiatry HEAL Fellowship in Global Mental Health. She is the Education co-chair for the Society for the Study of Psychiatry and Culture.
Awards
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- Bertram H. Roberts Memorial Fund in Social Psychiatry, Yale University, 2012
- Foreign Language and Area Studies Summer Fellowship, University of Pittsburg, 2009
- Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Graduate Scholarship, Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, 2006-2011
- Fellowship for Women in Science and Engineering, University of Cincinnati, 2005
- Research Experience for Undergraduates Summer Grant, National Science Foundation, 2003-2004
Education & Training
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- Fellowship Public Psychiatry UCSF 2017
- Psychiatry Residency Department of Psychiatry Yale University 2015
- Medical Doctor School of Medicine Case Western Reserve University 2011
- Summer Program in Social and Cultural Psychiatry Department of Psychiatry McGill University 2011
- MSc in Medical Anthropology Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology University of Oxford 2010
- B.S. in Biology with Honors McMicken School of Arts & Sciences University of Cincinnati 2006
Publications (5)
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Competencies for Global Mental Health: Developing Training Objectives for a Post-Graduate Fellowship for Psychiatrists.
Annals of global health 2018 Buzza C, Fiskin A, Campbell J, Guo J, Izenberg J, Kamholz B, Hung E, Acharya B -
Implications of Global Mental Health for Addressing Health Disparities in High-Income Countries
Psychiatric Annals 2018 Anna Fiskin, MD, MSc; Megha Miglani, MD; Colin Buzza, MD, MPH, MSc -
Novel Brief Cultural Psychiatry Training for Residents.
Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry 2015 Díaz E, Armah T, Linse CT, Fiskin A, Jordan A, Hafler J -
Formative research towards a development of a Mental Healthcare Plan in Nepal: Results of a Formative Study among Stakeholders
Programme for Improving Mental Healthcare Report 2013 Luitel, N. Adhikari A. Pokhrel Pooja. Pandey S, Bhadhari R. Koirala L. Subba P. Brenman N. Fiskin A. de Silva M. Jordans M. -
Interspecific transmission of endosymbiotic Spiroplasma by mites.
Biology letters 2007 Jaenike J, Polak M, Fiskin A, Helou M, Minhas M