Department Of Psychiatry And Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School Of Medicine

At Stanford Psychiatry, we are creating a new paradigm for modern psychiatry in which we move beyond the treatment of disease to the imperative of fostering overall health, resilience, and wellbeing. We work to understand the brain, with its extraordinary capacities and complexity, and to gain knowledge of its nature, development, adaptations, and dysfunction. We invent and combine evidence-based therapeutics, and we collaborate with our patients and their families so that each day may be lived well and in better health. We are developing new strategies to prevent and lessen the burdens of illness experienced by individuals, communities, and populations. The approach of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences of Stanford Medicine is driven by innovation – bringing novel approaches and technologies to tackle the hardest challenges in the laboratory, clinic, community, and nation. Our approach exists because of the acceleration of wonderful work by our scientists, scholars, educators, and learners in many academic disciplines. We have arrived at this moment because of the creativity, tenacity, and clarity of purpose of our academic community. We all have a role in advancing science, clinical innovation and service, educational excellence, community commitment and engagement, and professionalism and leadership. These missions, taken together, become a transformative methodology and have become the basis of this transformational new paradigm for psychiatry at Stanford.