Kewchang Lee, MD
Professor
Psychiatry
School of Medicine

415-221-4810 ext. 3141

Kewchang Lee is the Program Director of the Consultation-Liaison Fellowship Program, the Psychiatry Clerkship Director, and the Endowed Chair in Psychiatry Medical Student Education at UCSF. He is also the Director of the Psychiatry Consultation Unit and the Associate Chief of Psychiatry at the San Francisco VA Health Care System.

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He is the Vice Chair of the UCSF Academic Senate Committee on Committees, the Co-Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Advancements & Promotions Committee, a UCSF Representative to the University of California Academic Senate and the UC Committee on Committees, and a member of the UCSF Admissions Review Committee and the San Joaquin Valley Program in Medical Education Steering Committee.

Awards

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  • Endowed Chair in Psychiatry Medical Student Education, UCSF, 2023-2028
  • Teaching Scholars Program, UCSF Center for Faculty Educators, 2023-2024
  • Service Award, Haile T. Debase Academy of Medical Educators, 2022
  • Cooke Award for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, UCSF, 2021
  • Membership, Haile T. Debas Academy of Medical Educators, 2018
  • Distinguished Fellow Status, American Psychiatric Association, 2014
  • Fellow Status, Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, 2010

Education & Training

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  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training University of California 2018
  • Psychiatry Residency Training University of California, San Francisco 06/1996
  • M.D. Medicine New York University School of Medicine 05/1992
  • B.A. Applied Mathematics Harvard University 05/1988

Interests

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  • Cognitive Load
  • Medical Education
  • Medicolegal Issues
  • Mental Health Issues in Gay Male East Asian and Asian-American Populations
  • DEI and Anti-Racism
  • Integrated and Collaborative Care
  • Cultural Psychiatry of East Asians and Asian-Americans
  • Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry

Publications (8)

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