Rosalind De Lisser, RN, MS, NP
Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner
Medicine
School of Medicine

de Lisser is a member of the UCSF Center for Enhancement of Communication in Healthcare and a leader in interprofessional training and curriculum development. As a clinician Ms. de Lisser has 20 years of clinical experience and specializes in trauma informed care in the delivery of integrated primary and behavioral health care. She is the lead psychiatric clinician in the UCSF Women's HIV Program, caring for women with HIV whom have complex medical, psychiatric, and substance use issues. She is an advocate for patient centered care and engages the patient together with the interprofessional clinical team in innovative approaches to achieving mental health. She uses her experience as a clinician and educator to contribute to the development of clinical models of care for individuals at high risk for HIV with substance use and mental health disorders. This model is being tested for the creation of best practice approaches to integrated behavioral health care.

Finally, Ms. de Lisser is involved in several grants which aim to increase access to behavioral health care through improved clinician training. She has won state and federal training grants and mostly recently is funded by the California Health Care Foundation (2019-2021) to develop and implement a statewide multi-campus post-master psychiatric nurse practitioner program.