SEMEL INSTITUTE


The Research Track Residency Program is under the supervision of the program director, David Krantz, M.D. Ph.D., and associate program director, Dr. Erika Nurmi M.D. Ph.D. Other members of the Research Track Residency Oversight Committee and selection committee are Stephen Marder, M.D. , Bruce Kagan, M.D., Ph.D., James McCracken M.D., Nelson Freimer, M.D., Robert Rubin, M.D. Ph.D., Michael Irwin, M.D., Kenneth Wells M.D. MPH. The program is fully coordinated with the general residency program under the direction of James Spar, M.D.



David Krantz  MD, PhD
Director of the Psychiatry Residency Research Track;
Associate Professor in Residence in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Erika Nurmi  MD, PhD
Associate Director of the Psychiatry Residency Research Track;
Medical director of the UCLA Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Intensive Outpatient Program

Stephen Marder  MD
Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at UCLA;
Director of the VISN 22 Mental Illness Research, Education Clinical Center (MIRECC) for the Department of Veterans Affairs;
Director of the Section on Psychosis at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute

Bruce Kagan  MD, PhD
Professor Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences;
Director Adult Partial Hospitalization Program

Robert Rubin  MD, PhD
Chief of the Department of Psychiatry at the VA Greater LA Healthcare System;
Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Nelson Freimer  MD
Professor, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences;
Director, Biological Samples Processing Core (BSPC), Center for Neurobehavioral Genetics, Southern California Genotyping Consortium (SCGC)

Michael Irwin  MD
Professor, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences;
Norman Cousins Chair for Psychoneuroimmunology at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine

James McCracken  MD
Joseph Campbell Professor of Child Psychiatry at UCLA
Director, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at UCLA

Kenneth Wells  MD, MPH
Professor, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences;
Director, Health Services Research Center;
Senior Scientist, RAND Health Services