Demian Rose, MD, PhD

Dr. Rose is Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Psychiatry Medical School Clerkship. He is Medical Director of the UCSF Psychiatry Path program, a multidisciplinary approach to treating the early phases of chronic psychotic disorders. As clerkship director, Dr. Rose has worked to ensure psychiatry training is more inquiry-focused and systems-based. He collaborated with neurology clerkship director Vanja Douglas to develop “neuro-psych” didactic cases that cut across traditional clerkship lines. He worked with Kaiser Permanente to offer students several new psychiatry clerkship sites, and a greater variety of outpatient experiences. Dr. Rose is also the Psychiatry Residency Training Program Associate Program Director for Didactics and has administered the centralized didactic series since 2014. He redesigned the topic-based curriculum into one that is role- and competency-based, using the CanMEDS “professional roles” as a framework. Dr. Rose is a didactic and clinical instructor in the Psychiatry Residency Training Program who inspires learners and the faculty with whom he teaches. Department Chair Dr. Matthew State says, “As a leader, Dr. Rose has demonstrated the ability to motivate and manage a large and diverse set of didactic stakeholders. He is seen by the faculty and residents as a very visible champion for education and learning.”