Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
UC Davis
Sacramento, California
Lorin Scher is a professor and vice-chair in the Department of Psychiatry and the Roy Brophy endowed chair for education at UC Davis. Dr. Scher specializes in integrated behavioral health models of care, neuropsychiatry, and hospital-based psychiatry. Dr. Scher directs behavioral health integration services across the university’s ambulatory care network. Dr. Scher serves as the medical director for Government and Community Relations, and as co-director of the Huntington’s Disease Center of Excellence at UC Davis.
Dr. Scher has collaborates with the UC Davis ambulatory care leadership team to integrate behavioral health programs in primary care services. This team implemented validated screening measures and a stepped-treatment model to improve patient outcomes. The stepped program includes electronic consultations, ambulatory case management services, the collaborative care model (CoCM) for common psychiatric conditions, telepsychiatry services and embedded psychiatric consultants. Dr. Scher is the principal investigator for multiple studies related to mental health integration within primary care (funded by the California Healthcare Foundation, the Archstone Foundation and the UC Office of the President), and he serves as a co-investigator on a number of research and implementation grants related to service integration and neuropsychiatry (funded by AHRQ, CDC, CIRM).
Dr. Scher completed his general psychiatry residency training at New York-Presbyterian Hospital (Cornell). He completed a fellowship in consultation-liason psychiatry at UC Davis before joining its faculty. He is board-certified in general psychiatry and consultation-liaison psychiatry. He received an M.D. at George Washington University School of Medicine, and earned his undergraduate degree in Economics at Columbia University.
Thursday, November 9, 2023
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM CST
