
Lisa Fortuna, MD, MPH
Lisa Fortuna, MD, MPH is the Chief of Psychiatry and Neurosciences at the Riverside School of Medicine. She was the Chief of Psychiatry and Vice-Chair at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital/UCSF and Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry. She has been an investigator on several National Institutes of Health and foundation-funded studies of Latino and immigrant mental health, integrated care, access to care including a principle investigator of a NIMH funded R01 aimed at optimizing family navigation for addressing child behavioral health in primary care and a Patient Centered Outcome Research Institute (PCORI) funded multi-site large pragmatic trial on the treatment of childhood anxiety comparing face to face vs. digitally delivered CBT in English and Spanish called Kids FACE FEARS. Her areas of expertise are child and adolescent psychiatry, treatment and research on PTSD across the lifespan, immigrant mental health and disparities/ access to care including digital interventions research.
Education:
Yale University, New Haven, CT | BA | 1991 | Psychology |
New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ | MD | 1996 | Medicine |
St. Vincent's Hospital-Manhatten, New York, NY | Residency | 2001 | Psychiatry/Child and Adolescent Psychiatry |
Hunter College, New York, NY | MPH | 2001 | Urban Public Health |
Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA |
fellowship | 2003 | Health Services Research |