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Descartes Li, MD

Professor; School of Medicine Coach

I am blessed to be a clinician-educator at UCSF. I enjoy the opportunities for direct teaching as well as coordinating activities with my faculty colleagues. My areas of interest include bipolar disorder, depression, electroconvulsive therapy, medical student education, cultural psychiatry, and artificial intelligence. I give numerous talks and presentations in both academic and community settings.

My primary roles include the following:
1) Director, Undergraduate Medical Education
2) Director, UCSF Bipolar Disorder Program
3) Director, UCSF Electroconvulsive Therapy Service
4) Co-Director, Brain, Movement, and Behavior (Foundational Science course)

My educational motto is "Forget teaching, remember learning."

Professor, Clinical X Series, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
University of California, San Francisco, and the Weill Institute for Neurosciences
office: 415-476-7448; email: [email protected]
for mailing address, fax, and other information, see: https://directory.ucsf.edu/people/search/id/29302
Education
2017 - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training, University of California
Residency, 1997 - School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
M.D., 1993 - School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
Descartes Li, MD

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