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Tsoh, PhD (right) receives the 2024 Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Underrepresented Minority Research Mentoring Award from Diversity Committee Research Task Force co-chairs Johanna Folk, PhD (left) and Lauren Haack, PhD (center).</p> </div> </div> <p>UC San Francisco psychologist and professor <a href="https://profiles.ucsf.edu/janice.tsoh" target="_blank">Janice Y. Tsoh, PhD</a>, has been recognized by the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (DPBS) for a quarter century of聽excellence in mentoring trainee and early career researchers with its 2024 Underrepresented Minority (URM) Research Mentoring Award. She was presented with the award during the department's annual Diversity Celebration event on Oct. 23, 2024.</p> <p>The URM Research Mentoring Award was established in 2020 by the DPBS Diversity Committee's Research Task Force to recognize excellence in psychiatric and biobehavioral research mentorship of departmental trainees who are聽<a href="https://diversity.ucsf.edu/URM-definition">underrepresented minorities</a>聽in medicine. It is given annually to a department member who exemplifies the vital role that research mentoring plays in building and maintaining the robust, rich pipeline of junior researchers needed to conduct impactful research aimed at understanding聽and eliminating聽health disparities based on聽race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, and other聽factors.</p> <p>Tsoh is a clinician-researcher whose own works aims to promote health equity by making treatment more accessible. She focuses on ways to reduce nicotine dependence and encourage smoking cessation in underserved populations, including Asian American smokers. She also studies ways to improve health through community-based approaches, including colorectal cancer screenings, peer and family outreach that encourages good nutrition and increased physical activity, and mobile health care.</p> <p>She聽earned her doctorate in psychology, with a concentration in health psychology, at the University of Rhode Island. Tsoh聽completed a residency in clinical psychology at the University of Mississippi Medical Center and a fellowship in cancer prevention at the聽University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, followed by a fellowship in substance abuse treatment at UCSF. She is a member of the American Psychological Association and the Society of Behavioral Medicine.</p> <p>Since joining the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences' faculty in 1999, Tsoh has played an active mentorship role across multiple programs at the department and university levels. She is the associate director of the <a href="/SUDTSR">UCSF聽Postdoctoral Traineeship in Substance Use Disorders Treatment and Services Research</a>,聽co-director of the <a href="https://asianarch.org/" target="_blank">Asian American Research Center on Health</a>, and聽research director for the UCSF Vietnamese Community Health Promotion Project. In addition, Tsoh serves as a core faculty member of聽the UCSF Center for Tobacco Control Research聽and Education's postdoctoral fellowship program and co-leads the UCSF Clinical Psychology Training Program's research seminar series. She is also a founding member of the DPBS Faculty Mentoring Council.</p> <p>Tsoh has served as the primary research or co-mentor for dozens of undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral trainees and faculty members at UCSF and beyond聽over the past 25 years. Her mentorship has led to 17 diversity award supplements from the California Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program, more than 60 published abstracts and trainee-led poster and podium presentations at regional and national scientific meetings, over 40 peer-reviewed journal publications with trainee first authorship, and countless聽national, regional, and university honors and awards.</p> <hr /> <h2>About UCSF Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences</h2> <p>The聽<a href="https://psych.ucsf.edu/">UCSF Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences</a>聽and the Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute are among the nation's foremost resources in the fields of child, adolescent, adult, and geriatric mental health. Together they constitute one of the largest departments in the UCSF School of Medicine and the UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences, with a focus on providing unparalleled聽patient care, conducting impactful research, training the next generation of behavioral health leaders, and advancing diversity, health equity, and community across the field.</p> <p>UCSF Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences conducts its clinical, educational, and research efforts at a variety of locations in Northern California, including the聽<a href="https://psych.ucsf.edu/pritzker">UCSF Nancy Friend Pritzker Psychiatry Building</a>;聽<a href="https://psych.ucsf.edu/lpph">UCSF Langley Porter Psychiatric Hospital</a>;聽<a href="https://www.ucsfhealth.org/">UCSF Health聽medical centers and community hospitals</a>聽across San Francisco;聽<a href="https://www.ucsfbenioffchildrens.org/">UCSF Benioff Children鈥檚 Hospitals</a>聽in聽San Francisco聽and聽Oakland;聽<a href="https://www.zuckerbergsanfranciscogeneral.org/">Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center</a>; the聽<a href="https://www.va.gov/san-francisco-health-care/">San Francisco VA Health Care System</a>;聽<a href="https://fresno.ucsf.edu/psychiatry">UCSF Fresno</a>; and numerous community-based sites around the San Francisco Bay Area.</p> <h2>About the UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences</h2> <p>The聽<a href="http://weill.ucsf.edu/">UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences</a>, established by the extraordinary generosity of Joan and Sanford I. "Sandy" Weill, brings together world-class researchers with top-ranked physicians to solve some of the most complex challenges in the human brain.</p> <p>The UCSF Weill Institute leverages UCSF鈥檚 unrivaled bench-to-bedside excellence in the neurosciences. It unites three UCSF departments鈥擯sychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Neurology, and Neurological Surgery鈥攖hat are highly esteemed for both patient care and research, as well as the Neuroscience Graduate Program, a cross-disciplinary alliance of nearly 100 UCSF faculty members from 15 basic-science departments, as well as the UCSF Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases, a multidisciplinary research center focused on finding effective treatments for Alzheimer鈥檚 disease, frontotemporal dementia, Parkinson鈥檚 disease, and other neurodegenerative disorders.</p> <h2>About UCSF</h2> <p>The聽<a href="http://www.ucsf.edu/">University of California, San Francisco</a>聽(UCSF) is exclusively focused on the health sciences and is dedicated to promoting health worldwide through advanced biomedical research, graduate-level education in the life sciences and health professions, and excellence in patient care.聽<a href="https://www.ucsfhealth.org/">UCSF Health</a>, which serves as UCSF鈥檚 primary academic 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