California Initiative to Advance Precision Medicine Precision Mental Health to Predict Risk, Prevent, and Treat Depression in Publicly-Funded Youth (2024-2027)

Dr. Yang is a psychiatrist conducting extensive clinical and translational research in adolescent depression and caring for patients suffering from depression. He is currently a Professor at UCSF, where he leads the BrainChange Lab. Dr. Yang studies depression in adolescents using both structural and functional MRI, which measures brain activity. He has received funding support for his research from the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation, Klingenstein Third Generation Foundation and the National Institute of Mental Health. Dr. Yang earned his Ph.D. in molecular pathology at the University of California, San Diego, before earning his M.D. from the UC San Diego School of Medicine. He completed a residency in general psychiatry and a fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine.

Dr. Riley Bove is a practicing neurologist and clinician scientist in the UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences. She is a national and international leader in sex and gender aspects of Neurology, publishing, collaborating, and lecturing widely on this topic. In the technology space, Dr. Bove has conducted innovative work designing, validating, and implementing digital tools to improve care access, holistic measures of patient function, and as digital therapeutics. She is co-PI of the BRIDGE precision medicine dashboard that supports delivery of point-of-care personalized care. Dr. Bove received her MD and MSc from Harvard Medical School. She completed a neurology residency in the Massachusetts General/Brigham Hospitals program, followed by a clinical research fellowship at the Partners MS Center.

Dr. Fryer is a licensed clinical psychologist and Associate Professor at the UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences. She conducts research in motivation and reward processing and the neurobiology of depression. She has expertise in EEF and fMRI in her research. Dr. Fryer obtained a Ph.D. in the SDSU/UCSD Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology and completed a clinical psychology internship at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center.

Dr. Israni is the Chief Technology Officer of the Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute (BCHSI) at UCSF. He also has adjunct and affiliate faculty positions at UCSF and UC Berkeley. Previously, he was the Executive Director of Data Science at Stanford Medicine. Dr. Israni also has expertise in various Silicon Valley technology companies. He earned a PhD in Industrial Engineering (Computer Science minor) and an MSIE (Systems) from the University of Wisconsin, Madison; and a B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology - Kanpur.

Dr. Li is an Associate Professor at UCSF and a Director of the Neuroradiology Fellowship Program. She obtained her MD from Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA, followed by a one-year internship at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. She then completed a four-year Diagnostic Radiology residency at UCSF. Dr. Li served as chief fellow in Neuroradiology, completing her neuroradiology fellowship in 2017 and clinical instructorship in 2018.

Ms. Long is a co-founder of Teens4TeensHelp, a mother with lived family experience, and a passionate health advocate. She brings passion, experience, and a medical point of view to Teens4TeensHelp. She has also co-authored the book A Parent's Guide to Anorexia, offering parents insight into what to expect as they navigate the system of eating disorder treatment for their children.

Dr. Neylan is a Professor, In Residence, in the Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology at the University of California, San Francisco. He is the Director of the Posttraumatic Stress Disorders (PTSD) Clinic and the Stress and Health Research Program at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center. His research has focused on the role of sleep in emotion regulation, cognitive function, and metabolic health, in patients with PTSD and in aging populations with neurodegenerative disorders. Dr. Neylan obtained his M.D. from the Rush Medical College at the Rush University Medical Center and completed psychiatry residencies at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Randall leads the medical program at Edgewood Center and originally joined in 1999 as an Associate Medical Director serving youth and families. He is board-certified in general psychiatry and child and adolescent psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. Dr. Randall received his M.D. and M.P.H. degrees from Tulane University School of Medicine and Tulane School of Public Health. He completed his adult and child and adolescent psychiatry training at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).

Dr. Tolou-Shams is the Kilroy Realty Professor of Psychiatry and Vice Chair of Community Engagement, Outreach and Advocacy in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (DPBS) at UCSF. She is also Deputy Vice Chair for Research in the DPBS at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital (ZSFG). Dr. Tolou-Shams received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology in 2004 from the University of Illinois at Chicago and is trained as a pediatric and forensic psychologist who has many years of clinical experience with assessing and treating underserved adolescents and their families. Her 20 years of research experience has broadly focused on developing and testing integrated mental health, substance use, sexual and reproductive health prevention and treatment interventions (at individual, family and systems-levels) for youth and families in contact with the legal and/or child welfare systems.