Who We Are

Child psychiatrists in the San Francisco Bay area dedicated to helping schools maximize students’ academic and social potential by optimizing their mental well being, strengthening connections between schools and outside providers, and enhancing the effectiveness of classroom environments.

About our Director

Dr. Stuart Lustig, M.D., M.P.H. is currently an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). He is the Director of the Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Training Program at the Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute, and the Associate Director of Medical Student Education at UCSF.

Dr. Lustig received his Doctorate of Medicine from Rush Medical College in 1996 and completed his adult and child psychiatric training at Stanford and Harvard hospitals. He is Board Certified in both adult as well as child and adolescent psychiatry. New to the Bay area, Dr. Lustig has provided school-based consultations for several years in the Massachusetts communities of Lowell, Lynnfield, Winchester, Marblehead, and Chelmsford. He has held appointments as Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine, and Instructor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He was awarded a Masters in Public Health from the University of Illinois and 1992, and has published widely in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Transcultural Psychiatry, Harvard Review of Psychiatry, International Journal of Social Psychiatry, General Hospital Psychiatry, World Health Forum, and Public Health Reports. In addition to school consultations, other current interests include the cross-cultural delivery of mental health care, child refugees, and traumatized populations.