Emma Samelson-Jones, MD
Associate Professor
Psychiatry
School of Medicine
Dr. Emma Samelson-Jones is a clinician-educator within the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences who holds a joint appointment in the Department of Medicine. She is an attending psychiatrist in the Adult Psychiatry Clinic and in the primary care practice of the General Medicine Clinic at Mount Zion.
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Her latest curriculum development project is called PsychSnaps. PsychSnaps offers case-based lessons in psychiatry and addiction medicine for PCPs by email newsletter and online at psychsnaps.com. Dr. Samelson-Jones also develops and teaches the psychopharmacology courses for the senior psychiatry residents at UCSF. She serves as the Psychiatry Site Director for Medical Student Education at Parnassus and the psychiatry liaison for the Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship at Parnassus (PISCES Program).
Awards
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- Faculty Innovation in Education Award, American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology, 2022-2024
- Inducted into the Haile T. Debas Academy of Medical Educators, UCSF Center for Faculty Educators, 2021
- Exceptional Physician Award, UCSF Health, 2018
- Henry J. Kaiser Award for Excellence in Teaching, UCSF School of Medicine, 2017
Education & Training
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- Teaching Scholars Program University of California, San Francisco 2020
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training University of California 2017
- Psychiatry Residency Columbia University 2013
- Public Psychiatry Fellowship Columbia University 2013
- M.D. Medicine University of California, San Francisco 2009
- A.B. Chemistry and Physics Harvard University 2002
Websites
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Publications (10)
Top publication keywords:
Swine, MiniaturePhysician-Patient RelationsCarbon MonoxidePractice Guidelines as TopicHeart TransplantationContraindicationsThymus GlandLymphocyte TransfusionPatient SelectionIntellectual DisabilityStudents, MedicalIsoantigensTransplantationTransplantation ToleranceGraft Survival
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Cardiac transplantation in adult patients with mental retardation: do outcomes support consensus guidelines?
Psychosomatics 2012 Samelson-Jones E, Mancini DM, Shapiro PA -
Elegy.
Annals of internal medicine 2010 Samelson-Jones E -
Carbon monoxide reduces pulmonary ischemia-reperfusion injury in miniature swine.
The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery 2009 Sahara H, Shimizu A, Setoyama K, Okumi M, Oku M, Samelson-Jones E, Yamada K -
Role of persistence of antigen and indirect recognition in the maintenance of tolerance to renal allografts.
Transplantation 2008 Okumi M, Fishbein JM, Griesemer AD, Gianello PR, Hirakata A, Nobori S, Moran S, Samelson-Jones E, Shimizu A, Sachs DH, Yamada K -
Thymic rejuvenation and the induction of tolerance by adult thymic grafts.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2006 Nobori S, Shimizu A, Okumi M, Samelson-Jones E, Griesemer A, Hirakata A, Sachs DH, Yamada K
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Role of the thymus in transplantation tolerance in miniature swine: V. Deficiency of the graft-to-thymus pathway of tolerance induction in recipients of cardiac transplants.
Transplantation 2006 Yamamoto S, Teranishi K, Kamano C, Samelson-Jones E, Arakawa H, Nobori S, Okumi M, Houser S, Shimizu A, Sachs DH, Yamada K -
Long-term acceptance of fully allogeneic cardiac grafts by cotransplantation of vascularized thymus in miniature swine.
Transplantation 2006 Nobori S, Samelson-Jones E, Shimizu A, Hisashi Y, Yamamoto S, Kamano C, Teranishi K, Vagefi PA, Nuhn M, Okumi M, Wong B, Houser S, Sachs DH, Yamada K -
Vascularized thymic lobe transplantation in a pig-to-baboon model: a novel strategy for xenogeneic tolerance induction and T-cell reconstitution.
Transplantation 2005 Yamamoto S, Lavelle JM, Vagefi PA, Arakawa H, Samelson-Jones E, Moran S, Teranishi K, Kamano C, Fishman J, Awwad M, Neville DM, Shimizu A, Sykes M, Sachs DH, Yamada K -
ISLET-KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION: DETERMINING THE MINIMUM NUMBER OF ISLET EQUIVALENTS NEEDED TO CURE DIABETES IN MGH-MINIATURE SWINE.
Transplantation Journal 2004 M Nuhn, S Nobori, V Tchipashvili, A Shimizu, E Samelson-Jones, S Moran, H Hong, Y Hisashi, K Yazawa, C Kamano, D Sachs, K Yamada -
THE ROLE OF HOST THYMIC FUNCTION IN THE INDUCTION OF TOLERANCE ACROSS FULL MHC BARRIERS BY FK506.
Transplantation Journal 2004 H Hong, K Yamada, A Shimizu, C Kamano, E Samelson-Jones, S Moran, D Sachs, M Hertl