Lowell Tong, MD
Professor Emeritus
Psychiatry
School of Medicine
Dr. Lowell Tong retired in 2022. His last operational roles were faculty lead for the design and creation of the UCSF Nancy Friend Pritzker Building in Dogpatch which opened in 2022 adjacent to the Mission Bay Campus, and Executive Vice Chair for the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.
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Following undergraduate studies at Stanford and medical school at the University of Virginia, he completed his psychiatry residency at UCSF. He returned to join the UCSF faculty in 1988 and served in leadership positions in the School and Department including Interim Chair of UCSF Psychiatry, as well as Chief of UCSF Mount Zion Psychiatry. He previously led the psychiatry consult service at SFVAMC, created psychiatry clinical and administrative structures of the UCSF-CPMC Brown & Toland Medical Group, and was Education Vice Chair for UCSF Psychiatry. He was an inaugural member of the UCSF Academy of Medical Educators and held the Department of Psychiatry’s Endowed Chair for Medical Student Education for two terms ending in 2014. He was the recipient of the UCSF Academy of Medical Educators Outstanding Service Award, and the Association for Academic Psychiatry Educator Award.
Education & Training
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- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training University of California 2018
- Residency Psychiatry University of California, San Francisco 1986
- MD Medicine University of Virginia 1982
- BS Biology Stanford University 1978
Websites
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- Profile at UCSF Department of Psychiatry (psych.ucsf.edu)
Publications (10)
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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 -
The American Psychiatric Association Practice Guidelines for the Psychiatric Evaluation of Adults.
The American journal of psychiatry 2015 Silverman JJ, Galanter M, Jackson-Triche M, Jacobs DG, Lomax JW, Riba MB, Tong LD, Watkins KE, Fochtmann LJ, Rhoads RS, Yager J, American Psychiatric Association -
The electroconvulsive therapy and anesthesia exercise (ECTAE): the creation of an interdisciplinary learning activity for medical students.
The journal of ECT 2013 Li D, Hall SE, Tong LD, Rollins MD -
Global mental health training for United States psychiatric residents.
Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry 2011 Van Dyke C, Tong L, Mack K -
Faculty verbal evaluations reveal strategies used to promote medical student performance.
Medical education online 2011 Hauer KE, Mazotti L, O'Brien B, Hemmer PA, Tong L
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Perceptions of evaluation in longitudinal versus traditional clerkships.
Medical education 2011 Mazotti L, O'Brien B, Tong L, Hauer KE -
Development of a longitudinal integrated clerkship at an academic medical center.
Medical education online 2011 Poncelet A, Bokser S, Calton B, Hauer KE, Kirsch H, Jones T, Lai CJ, Mazotti L, Shore W, Teherani A, Tong L, Wamsley M, Robertson P -
Development and initial testing of a structured clinical observation tool to assess pharmacotherapy competence.
Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry 2011 Young JQ, Lieu S, O'Sullivan P, Tong L -
Applying to psychiatry residency programs.
Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry 2006 Bak MK, Louie AK, Tong LD, Coverdale J, Weiss Roberts L -
From Yoda to Sackett: the future of psychiatry medical student education.
Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry 2006 Thornhill JT, Tong L