Sidney Zisook, MD

Biography

Sidney Zisook, M.D. is a University of California San Diego (UCSD) Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry. He completed medical school at the Stitch-Loyola School of Medicine, residency at Massachusetts General Hospital and a clinical fellowship in psychiatry at Harvard University. As co-founder of the San Diego Chapter of American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) in 2007, he launched and co-led a healthcare team suicide prevention program, the Healer Education, Assessment and Referral (HEAR ) program, for the UC San Diego medical school and health science community. He currently directs the UCSD Physician Peer Support Program and serves on the Scientific Council of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, Scientific Advisory Board of the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance, Board of Directors of the American College of Psychiatry, and Editorial Board of FOCUS: The Journal of Lifelong Learning in Psychiatry. Dr. Zisook's key academic interests include suicide prevention with a special focus on healthcare workforce suicide, grief and prolonged grief disorder, treatment resistant depression, and medical education. He has published over 400 scientific articles, chapters and books in these areas.