Message from the Chair

Welcome to the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior in the School of Medicine at the University of California at Irvine. We are a world class academic department of psychiatry that provides outstanding clinical care, exceptional education for UCI medical students, adult psychiatry residents and child and adolescent psychiatry fellows, and conducts high impact, translational and clinical research directed towards understanding the causes of mental illness and addiction and advancing the development of new approaches to treatment and prevention.