Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
University of California, San Francisco
Psychiatry
San Francisco General Hospital
1001 Potrero Avenue
San Francisco
CAUSA
94110
Email:
francis.lu@sfdph.org
Biographical Sketch: Francis G. Lu, M.D., is Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). He is also the Director of the Cultural Competence and Diversity Program, Department of Psychiatry at San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH), where he has worked since 1977. In 1980, he founded the Asian Focus Psychiatric Inpatient Program, which served as a model for 5 other programs serving Black, Latino, women, gay/lesbian and HIV patients. In 1987, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) awarded these programs a Certificate of Significant Achievement. In 1991, UCSF awarded Dr. Lu, with two other SFGH Department of Psychiatry faculty, the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Award for “extraordinary leadership and inspiration in furthering the goal of achieving ethnic diversity within the UCSF community” for the development of these programs. In 1999, the American College of Psychiatrists awarded the Creativity in Psychiatric Education Award to these programs.
Dr. Lu co-directed and served as Executive Scientific Advisor to Shame and Silence.