Cory Johnson, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor
Family Community Medicine
School of Medicine

Dr. Cory Johnson is the director of behavioral sciences within the UCSF-SFGH Family & Community Residency Program, where he trains residents to use skills traditionally utilized by family therapists in their primary care visits with patients.

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He has received fellowship training in family systems therapy and clinical therapy supervision led by Dr. George Saba, an internationally respected psychologist & family therapist.

He has several clinical roles. He provides full spectrum primary care to all ages and families. He serves as the physician lead for the Bridge Clinic contingency management program, the first clinic-based group contingency management program in the department of public health and attends in the Stanley Jackson/ Family Medicine HIV Clinic at Zuckerberg San Francisco General. He maintains his therapy skills by providing longitudinal systemic therapy to a small cohort of individuals and couples.

Awards

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  • Emerging Leaders Fellow, STFM
  • Health Justice Scholar, UCSF Dept of Family & Community Medicine

Education & Training

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  • Fellowship Integrated Behavioral Health & Family Systems Therapy UCSF Department of Family & Community Medicine 2023
  • Fellowship Primary Care Psychiatry Fellowship | Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Track UC Irvine 2022
  • Residency Family & Community Medicine UCSF-San Francisco General Hospital 2021
  • MD, MPH Medicine, Biostatistics & Epidemiology Keck School of Medicine of USC 2018

Interests

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  • Family Therapy
  • Community-led Behavioral Health
  • Anti-Oppression Models of Integrated Behavioral Health
  • Psychiatry in Primary Care
  • Applications of Family Systems Theory in Primary Care

Publications (2)

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