Kewchang Lee, MD

Dr. Lee is Professor of Psychiatry, Site Director for Psychiatry Medical Student Education at SFVAMC, Director of the UCSF Psychosomatic Medicine Fellowship Program and Director of the Psychiatry Consultation Unit. In his fellowship director role, he is responsible for all didactic and clinical educational activities for the fellow, and chairs the fellowship program’s Clinical Competency and Program Evaluation Committees. As VA Site Director, he organizes and oversees all educational activities for students rotating through psychiatry clerkships, longitudinal experiences, and electives at the SFVA. Dr. Lee’s teaching includes clinical supervision and didactic teaching of psychosomatic medicine and geriatric psychiatry fellows, psychiatry residents, internal medicine residents, and medical students. He has co-led a Behavioral Medicine Seminar for medicine residents in the SFVA Program in Residency Investigation Methods and Epidemiology (PRIME) since 1996, and received the Calvin L. Chou PRIME Teaching Award from the residents in 2008. Says Department Vice Chair Dr. John McQuaid, “Dr. Lee has done an exceptional job as Site Director of the UCSF Psychiatry Medical Student Education experience at the SFVA. He has created an educational experience for medical students that is coordinated, comprehensive, and responsive to the needs of the students and the requirements of UCSF.”