Jenny Nguyen M.D.

Dr. Nguyen graduated from Stanford University with a bachelor’s degree in psychology. She received her medical degree from the David Geffen School of Medicine and completed her adult psychiatry residency as well as dialectical behavioral therapy training at the University of Washington. She then pursued a fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry at UCLA, where she served as inpatient chief fellow. Dr. Nguyen’s clinical interests are in acute psychiatric care, including inpatient hospitalization and psychiatric emergency services, with a focus on mood disorders and suicide prevention. Her research interests include suicide prevention; disparities in mental health care, especially for Asian Americans; and translating evidence-based interventions into the clinical setting. Recent scholarly work includes a quality improvement project to reduce the disproportionate use of restraints and seclusion among patients of color in a psychiatric intensive care unit; an educational module on cultural models of suicide risk factors; and assisting with a Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) study, Youth Partners in Care for Suicide Prevention. In addition to the Max Gray Fellowship, Dr. Nguyen will be joining the UCLA Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences as an attending physician in the child and adolescent inpatient unit. She will also serve as the Emergency Department operations lead for the PCORI study.