Emma Samelson-Jones, MD

Associate Professor

Dr. Emma Samelson-Jones is a clinician-educator within the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences who holds a joint appointment in the Department of Medicine. She is an attending psychiatrist in the Adult Psychiatry Clinic and in the primary care practice of the General Medicine Clinic at Mount Zion.

Her latest curriculum development project is called PsychSnaps. PsychSnaps offers case-based lessons in psychiatry and addiction medicine for PCPs by email newsletter and online at psychsnaps.com. Dr. Samelson-Jones also develops and teaches the psychopharmacology courses for the senior psychiatry residents at UCSF. She serves as the Psychiatry Site Director for Medical Student Education at Parnassus and the psychiatry liaison for the Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship at Parnassus (PISCES Program).

Education

2020 - Teaching Scholars Program, University of California, San Francisco

2017 - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training, University of California

2013 - Psychiatry Residency, Columbia University

2013 - Public Psychiatry Fellowship, Columbia University

M.D., 2009 - Medicine, University of California, San Francisco

A.B., 2002 - Chemistry and Physics, Harvard University

Honors and Awards

Faculty Innovation in Education Award, American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology, 2022-2024 Inducted into the Haile T. Debas Academy of Medical Educators, UCSF Center for Faculty Educators, 2021 Exceptional Physician Award, UCSF Health, 2018 Henry J. Kaiser Award for Excellence in Teaching, UCSF School of Medicine, 2017