Carmen Kilpatrick, MD
Assistant Professor
Psychiatry
School of Medicine
Dr. Carmen Kilpatrick is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco. She is an attending psychiatrist at UCSF Langley Porter Psychiatric Hospital, where she supervises and teaches residents and medical students on the adult inpatient psychiatry service.
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She also provides psychiatric care for the San Francisco Department of Public Health in the county jail system. In the UCSF School of Medicine, she serves as Course Director for the foundational neuroscience course, “Brain, Mind, and Behavior.”
Dr. Kilpatrick is a clinician-educator whose work focuses on medical education, curriculum innovation, faculty development, and mentorship. She serves as a Main Psychiatry Career Advisor for the UCSF School of Medicine and as Certificate Steward for the Clinical Teaching Certificate Program through the UCSF Center for Faculty Education. Her educational scholarship centers on learner safety, simulation-based education, and creating inclusive learning environments that prepare students and physicians to provide compassionate, evidence-based and anti-oppressive care. With her background in film and media, she is interested in using the medical humanities to teach psychiatric diagnosis and formulation, communication, and clinical reasoning.
Her clinical interests include acute psychiatry, serious mental illness, and community psychiatry.
Awards
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- Association for Academic Psychiatry IDEA Fellowship, AAP, 2026-2029
- Association for Academic Psychiatry Educational Scholarship Grant, AAP, 2026-2027
- UCSF Medical Education Seed Grant, UCSF, 2026-2027
- Excellence & Innovation Award (Leadership in Community, Opportunity, Retention and Engagement), UCSF Office of Graduate Medical Education, 2026
- John A. Watson Faculty Scholar, UC San Francisco, 2025-2029
- Sustaining a New Generation for Education Award, Association of Academic Psychiatry, 2024
- Award for Excellence in Promoting Diversity & Inclusion, UC San Francisco, 2023
- Resident Teaching Award, UC San Francisco, 2022
- Presidential Scholar in Film & Media Studies, Dartmouth College, 2006-2009
Education & Training
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- Medical Education Association for Academic Psychiatry Master Educator Program 2028
- MD Medicine Brown University
- Postbacclaureate Studies Columbia University
- BA Film & Media Studies, German Studies Dartmouth College
- Psychiatry Residency UC San Francisco
- Teaching Scholars Program UC San Francisco
Publications (5)
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Is Virtual Group Therapy an Effective Alternative to In-Person Group Therapy for Patients with Early Psychosis?
International Journal of Group Psychotherapy 2023 Kilpatrick, C. and Kanas, N. -
The Pre-Clerkship Guide Procedures and Skills for Clinical Rotations
Chapter 36: “Progress Note Oral Presentation: Psychiatry.” 2022 Eltorai, Adam; George, Paul; Rougas, Steven -
Assessing How Violent Threats from Students Toward Schools Are Affected Before and After a School Shooting
Psychiatric Annals 2021 Haddad, J., Curtis, K., Kilpatrick, C., Chambers, A., Hoffman, P., & Donise, K -
A Retrospective Chart Review Assessing Patients Making Violent Threats Toward School Surrounding Two Incidents of Mass School Shootings
Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 2018 Haddad, J., Kilpatrick, C., Hoffman, P., & Donise, K -
Breastfeeding Education for Medical Students
Breastfeeding Medicine 2017 Kilpatrick, C., & Bilodeau, C.