Vivek Datta, MD, MPH
HS Asst Clin Professor
Cio
Chancellor/EVC/FAS
Dr. Datta is the Consulting Neuropsychiatrist for the UCSF Epilepsy Center and Associate Director of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry at UCSF Health. He also serves as the Consulting Psychiatrist to the OPTIMAL Post-COVID clinic.
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He specializes in the evaluation and treatment of functional neurological disorders, early onset dementias, psychiatric manifestations of neurological disease, somatoform disorders, factitious disorders, traumatic brain injury, and trauma-related disorders. He maintains an outpatient neuropsychiatry practice and provides forensic evaluations and consultation to the courts and attorneys on psycholegal issues.
He is Associate Editor of the Journal of Gay and Lesbian Mental Health, Co-Chair of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law's Forensic Neuropsychiatry Committee, serves on the USMLE Neurology/Neuroscience Test Development Committee and is Co-Chair of the Scientific Program for the Society of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis 2020 Conference.
Awards
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- Laughlin Fellowship, American College of Psychiatrists, 2017
- Rappeport Fellowship, American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, 2015
- BRAIN Conference Scholarship, American Association of Directors of Psychiatry Residency Training, 2015
- International Medical Graduate Fellowship, American Association of Directors of Psychiatry Residency Training, 2015
- Diversity Leadership Fellow, American Psychiatric Association, 2014-2016
- PRITE Fellowship, American College of Psychiatrists, 2013-2015
- Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship, Harvard University, 2011-2012
Education & Training
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- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training University of California 2018
- Internship Medicine and Surgery Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust
- M.B. B.S. Medicine Guy's, King's & St Thomas' School of Medicine
- M.P.H. Public Health Harvard University
- Fellowship Psychiatry and the Law University of California, San Francisco
- B.Sc. Psychology University of London
- Internship Medicine University of Washington
- Residency Psychiatry University of Washington
Interests
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- Functional Neurological Disorder
- Forensic Neuropsychiatry
- Traumatic Brain Injury
- Sexual Dysfunction
- Atypical and Late Life Psychiatric Disorders
- Somatization
- Amnesia and Dissociative Disorders
- Hypnosis
- Illness Deception
- Traumatic Stress
- Frontotemporal Dementia
- Early Onset Dementia
Websites
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- The Neuropsychiatrist (theneuropsychiatrist.com)
Publications (13)
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Mental HealthEthnopsychologyTeachingPsychotherapyExpert TestimonyHuman TraffickingResource AllocationCultural CompetencyMotion PicturesEducation, Medical, UndergraduateStudents, MedicalDeveloping CountriesGlobal HealthNeurobiologyPsychiatry
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Neurobiological evidence and criminal competencies.
Behavioral sciences & the law 2024 Zhang T, Nesbit A, Datta V -
Expert Testimony in Sex Trafficking Cases.
The journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 2022 Zhang T, Datta V -
Introduction: Exploring the Foundations of Psychiatry
Psychiatric Times 2019 Datta V -
Principles and Practice of Forensic Psychiatry
J Am Academy Psychiatry Law 2018 Datta V -
Clarification to Prison Litigation Reform Act "Three Strikes" Rule.
The journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 2017 Datta V, Michaels TM, Chamberlain JR
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Queerly Invisible: LGBTQ People of Color and Mental Health
Journal of Gay and Lesbian Mental Health. 2017 Datta V, Bialer P, & McIntosh C -
Evidence, not ideology, should guide the use of psychotherapy.
The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science 2016 Michaels TM, Datta V -
The Problem with Education in Global Mental Health.
Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry 2015 Datta V -
Psychiatry is more than neuropsychiatry.
BJPsych bulletin 2015 Datta V -
Weight afforded to the opinion of treating psychiatrists in
disability evaluations
J Am Acad Psychiatry Law 2015 Datta V, Pullen S, Piel J. -
Neurohawks fight back.
The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science 2009 Datta V -
Recent advances in bipolar disorder pharmacotherapy: focus on bipolar depression and rapid cycling.
Expert review of clinical pharmacology 2009 Datta V, Cleare AJ -
Madness and the movies: an undergraduate module for medical students.
International review of psychiatry (Abingdon, England) 2009 Datta V