Trainees
Learn more about our trainees!
2024-2025 PGY-I Research Track Residents
Joseph Friedman, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H.
Joe joins us from the University of California, Los Angeles, where he completed his MD and PhD in Social Medicine. Before that, he undertook a master's in public health and a three-year data science fellowship at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington. His research combines epidemiological and anthropological approaches to studying substance use, drug overdose, mental illness, and other socially-bound causes of mortality and morbidity. He has a particular interest in the US-Mexico border region, and has spent several years living and working in Tijuana, Mexico.
Maribel Patiño, M.D., Ph.D.
Maribel was born and raised in California. She earned a bachelor's degree in Cell and Molecular Biology, with a focus on Neurobiology, from UC Berkeley (Go Bears!) Her MD/PhD training was completed at UC San Diego, where she conducted her thesis research at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies under the guidance of Dr. Ed Callaway, earning a PhD in Neuroscience. Through the Brain Initiative, she developed neurotechnology that integrates transcriptomics with viral tracing tools to study cortical connectivity at a more granular resolution. Maribel is excited to combine her training in psychiatry and neuroscience to explore the biological foundations of psychiatric disorders, particularly mood disorders and psychosis.
2024-2025 PGY-II Research Track Residents
Lay Kodama, M.D., Ph.D.
Lay spent her Undergrad years as a neuroscience major at Johns Hopkins, did a Master’s of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge on a Churchill Scholarship followed by an MD, PhD (Neurosciences) at UCSF. Since 2022, Lay has been a post-doc at UCSF using bioinformatics with EHR data to develop predictive models for inpatient delirium risk; her clinical interests include Geropsychiatry.
Tara Trujillo, M.D.
Tara comes to us from the 4-year medical research track at the University of Colorado. She spent her Undergrad years as a Human Bio major at Stanford University, then worked for several years as a post-bac researcher at Stanford and a Clinical Trial Coordinator in the Psychosis research program at UCSF, before attending the University of Colorado. Tara’s research interests are in transitional age youth, early psychosis, autism and eating disorders. She may be headed into Child Psychiatry.
2024-2025 PGY-III Research Track Residents
Johansen Amin, M.D., Ph.D.
Johansen completed his M.D., Ph.D. training at the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University. His doctoral studies in the Department of Cell and Molecular Pharmacology focused on synaptic physiology of NMDA receptors and their disease-associated mutations.
Jared Kopelman, M.D., Ph.D.
Jared joins us from the University of Pittsburgh, where he received his M.D., Ph.D. training, completing doctoral studies in Neurosciences. His thesis investigated neural and behavioral phenotypes associated with an OCD-related genetic mutation in rodents.
2024-25 PGY-IV Research Track Residents
Jack Hunt, M.D., Ph.D.
Jack joins us from the University of Wisconsin, where he earned an M.D. and Ph.D. (Cellular and Molecular Biology). In his doctoral work under the mentorship of Dr. Barbara Bendlin, he investigated neighborhood-level social disadvantage as a risk factor for neurodegeneration and cognitive decline in older adults.