Erick Hung, MD
Professor
Psychiatry
School of Medicine

Prior to joining the Dean's team, he served as the Program Director of the Adult Psychiatry Residency Training Program from 2012-2022 and the Director of Curricular Affairs for GME for the UCSF School of Medicine from 2015-2022. He completed his medical school, psychiatry residency, and forensic psychiatry fellowship training at the University of California, San Francisco and joined the faculty at UCSF in 2009. He actively teaches in the areas of risk assessment, medical education, forensic psychiatry, leadership, and ethics. His interests include primary care and mental health integration, the interface between mental health and the legal system, inter-professional collaboration and training, HIV psychiatry, LGBTQ mental health, and medical education. His educational scholarship interests include competency-based assessment, faculty development, and near-peer learning in the workplace setting.

In addition to a general forensic psychiatric practice, Dr. Hung's forensic expertise includes psychiatric injury in the workplace, workplace-based harassment and discrimination for LGBTQ individuals, neuropsychiatric issues related to HIV, and immigration custody.

• 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
• Developing End-of-Training Entrustable Professional Activities for Psychiatry: Results and Methodological Lessons.
  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2018 Young JQ, Hasser C, Hung EK, Kusz M, O'Sullivan PS, Stewart C, Weiss A, Williams N
• A Novel Department-Based Faculty Fellowship to Promote Scholarship in Medical Education.
  Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry 2017 Tong L, Hung E
• Developing a scalable training model in global mental health: pilot study of a video-assisted training Program for Generalist Clinicians in Rural Nepal.
  Global mental health (Cambridge, England) 2017 Acharya B, Tenpa J, Basnet M, Hirachan S, Rimal P, Choudhury N, Thapa P, Citrin D, Halliday S, Swar SB, van Dyke C, Gauchan B, Sharma B, Hung E, Ekstrand M
• The impact of database restriction on pharmacovigilance signal detection of selected cancer therapies.
  Therapeutic advances in drug safety 2017 Hauben M, Hung E, Wood J, Soitkar A, Reshef D
• Partnerships in mental healthcare service delivery in low-resource settings: developing an innovative network in rural Nepal.
  Globalization and health 2017 Acharya B, Maru D, Schwarz R, Citrin D, Tenpa J, Hirachan S, Basnet M, Thapa P, Swar S, Halliday S, Kohrt B, Luitel NP, Hung E, Gauchan B, Pokharel R, Ekstrand M
• General and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Resident Training in Integrated Care: a Survey of Program Directors.
  Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry 2015 Reardon CL, Bentman A, Cowley DS, Dunaway K, Forstein M, Girgis C, Han J, Hung E, Jones J, Keeble T, McCarron RM, Varley CK
• American Medical Association Journal of Ethics
  Resources for Teaching Neuroethics 2012 David Elkin, MD, Erick Hung, MD, and Gilbert Vilella, MD
• Resources for teaching neuroethics.
  The virtual mentor : VM 2012 Elkin D, Hung E, Villela G
• A method for evaluating competency in assessment and management of suicide risk.
  Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry 2012 Hung EK, Binder RL, Fordwood SR, Hall SE, Cramer RJ, McNiel DE
• Covert medication in psychiatric emergencies: is it ever ethically permissible?
  The journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 2012 Hung EK, McNiel DE, Binder RL
• An approach to evaluating competence in assessing and managing violence risk.
  Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) 2011 McNiel DE, Hung EK, Cramer RJ, Hall SE, Binder RL
• Frontotemporal dementia and mania.
  The American journal of psychiatry 2007 Woolley JD, Wilson MR, Hung E, Gorno-Tempini ML, Miller BL, Shim J
• Search and rescue in Yosemite National Park: a 10-year review.
  Wilderness & environmental medicine 2007 Hung EK, Townes DA
• Physical and medical characteristics of successful and unsuccessful summiteers of Mount Everest in 2003.
  Wilderness & environmental medicine 2006 Wiseman C, Freer L, Hung E