Welcome to the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at UC Davis.  The Department has rapidly grown over the last several years, more than doubling the size of its faculty and staff to approximately 70 psychiatrists and psychologists and over 200 total employees. The Department's administrative offices, outpatient clinic, consultation service and education office are located at 2230 Stockton Boulevard, directly across from the UC Davis Medical Center. The Department's forensic and research divisions are located down the street on the second floor of Ticon II located at 2516 Stockton Boulevard, across from the Shriners Hospital. Finally, a number of Department faculty are located at the Imaging Research Center in Sacramento and the Center for Neuroscience  on the UC Davis campus.

The Department provides clinical services at a number of locations throughout the greater Sacramento area.  The psychosomatic medicine service provides services in the main hospital located at 2315 Stockton Boulevard.  Outpatient services are provided on the first floor of the 2230 Stockton Boulevard site. Department faculty are assigned to the crisis unit and inpatient psychiatry unit at the Mental Health Treatment Center campus located a block away at 2150 Stockton Boulevard. Faculty and residents also provide services at a county regional clinic called Northgate Point, a cross-cultural outpatient clinic for patients suffering from acute and chronic mental disorders, especially post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Research is conducted at a number of sites throughout northern California.  The Center for Neuroscience, the UC Davis Sleep Laboratory and Child Development Center are located on the Davis campus.  Department  faculty also participate in the Medical Investigation of Neurodevelopmental Disorders (M.I.N.D.) Instutute and the Imaging Research Center on the UC Davis Medical Center campus. Faculty conduct telepsychiatry research at the new Medical Education Technology Center and at the Alzheimer's Disease and Diagnostic Treatment Center. Other active research sites include Napa State Hospital, the California Regional Primate Research Center located west of the Davis campus, Lawrence Berkeley Livermore Laboratories, and the UC Davis Health System Primary Care Network.

The Department has a rapidly growing child and adolescent psychiatry division and forensic psychiatry division.  In the forensic division, faculty provide services for the Jail Psychiatric Service located at the Sacramento County Main Jail and at Napa State Hospital. In addition, the four board-certified forensic psychiatrists provide consultation services to the court and to legal firms throughout northern California.  The child and adolescent psychiatry service currently has 14 child psychiatrists and psychologists and is recruiting additional faculty.

The Department has five accredited residency programs: general psychiatry, combined psychiatry family practice, combined internal medicine and psychiatry, child and adolescent psychiatry and forensic psychiatry.  The Department provides a consultation psychiatry fellowship and several research fellowships. In addition, a postdoctoral fellowship in adult and child psychology is offered.  The Department has a total of 45 trainees in these various residency and fellowship programs.

In summary, the Department has a major commitment to neuroscience and clinical research, education in psychiatry and psychology and the provision of clinical services in a variety of treatment settings. A broad range of training and faculty opportunities exist. It is expected that the Department will continue to grow in the years to come.

Robert E. Hales, M.D., M.B.A.
Professor and Chair