Sidney Zisook, M.D., Professor and Residency Training Director
Dr. Zisook went to medical school at Stritch-Loyola. He did his residency in psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital and has spent the better part of the last three decades in medical student and residency education. His research career has been focused on grief and bereavement as well as on clinical aspects of mood disorders, but his real passion in academia is training young clinicians and investigators to be the best they can be. Among his many awards and recognitions are two research awards for bereavement related studies, Best Doctor in America Award, and teaching awards from the APA and the San Diego Psychiatric Society. He has been the Residency Training Director at UCSD since 1995, after having been Associate Training Director for 12 years before that.

Steven Shuchter, M.D., Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Associate Training Director - Director, UCSD Outpatient Psychiatric Services
Dr. Shuchter went to medical school at University of Chicago and completed his psychiatry residency at Yale. Dr. Shuchter has been Director of Outpatient Psychiatry Services during his entire tenure at UCSD. Dr. Shuchter's main area of research has been in Grief and Bereavement and among his many publications is a book on Integrative Psychotherapy. More recently, he has focused his scholarly attentions on Impaired Physicians and their treatment. He has won many clinical, humanitarian and teaching awards and has been voted "Best and Most Supportive Teacher" by UCSD residents on four separate occasions. Dr. Shuchter oversees the clinical and didactic experience of the PGY-3s.

Kristin Cadenhead, M.D., Associate Professor and Associate Training Director
Dr. Cadenhead went to medical school at University of Texas Medical - Galveston and completed her psychiatry residency at UCSD. Dr. Cadenhead is the Director of the Psychiatry Primary Care Clinic at the San Diego Veterans Administrative Medical Center. Her areas of research focus on prodromal and subsyndromal schizophrenia. She has been Associate Training Director in charge of the Senior class since 2001.

Christine Moutier, M.D., Assistant Clinical Professor and Associate Training Director
Dr. Moutier went to medical school at the University of California, San Diego. After completing her residency in psychiatry at UCSD in 1999, she began working on the Inpatient and Consultation - Liaison services at UCSD Medical Center before moving to the San Diego Veterans Administration Medical Center to teach on the Inpatient Service and assume leadership of the PG-2 year.

Shannon Robinson, M.D., Assistant Clinical Professor and Associate Training Director
Dr. Robinson went to medical school at the University of Louisville and completed a 4-year residency in psychiatry at UCSD in 2000. She has remained at UCSD running the Consultation-Liaison service at UCSD Medical Center and has been Associate Training Director, responsible for the Intern class since 2001.

Tracy Riley, B.S., Residency Training Coordinator
Ms. Riley joined the UCSD Department of Psychiatry as the Residency Training Coordinator in 1999 and holds a Bachelors of Science Degree in Business Administration. Her experience with residency training began in 1994 as Coordinator for the Child Psychiatry Residency Program located at Children's Hospital San Diego.