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Dr. Mangurian is an Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at UCSF School of Medicine and the UCSF Department of Psychiatry's Vice Chair for Diversity and Health Equity. Dr. Mangurian founded and directs the UCSF Program of Research on Mental health Integration among Underserved and Minority populations (PReMIUM) which is based at CVP (http://integration.ucsf.edu/).

Dr. Mangurian is a community psychiatrist whose NIH-funded research program focuses on improving diabetes screening of people with severe mental illness (e.g., schizophrenia, bipolar disorder), particularly among underserved minority populations. As part of her NIMH-funded Career Development Award (Improving metabolic screening in diverse severely mentally ill populations), she has partnered with the San Francisco Health Network to determine the feasibility of implementation of the CRANIUM intervention in a community health clinic to increase diabetes screening and treatment in people with severe mental illness. The CRANIUM intervention is a Culturally competent community mental health clinic transformation that includes a Registry and reminders for laboratory tests, Advice to get testing, peer Navigators to obtain laboratory tests, leveraging Information technology to provide primary care eConsultations, Umbrella of services, and Medication management by psychiatrists. Dr. Mangurian has a successful track record in implementation in the public sector, most notably being her work as a Special Coordinator for the Medical Director of the New York State Office of Mental Health to implement health screening of 15,000 outpatients served within the New York State public mental health system (Mangurian et al., 2010). With her current NIDDK-funded grant (Diabetes screening and care received by the mentally ill in an integrated system), Dr. Mangurian has partnered with Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research to leverage Kaiser’s tremendous EHR to examine patient-, provider- and clinic-level variables that might influence diabetes care in this vulnerable population.

In addition to her research experience, Dr. Mangurian is the Director and co-Founder of the UCSF Public Psychiatry Fellowship at San Francisco General Hospital. This was the first Public Psychiatry Fellowship in California, and the only one nationally to have a formal mental health services research component. Dr. Mangurian also serves as the Chair of the American Psychiatric Association’s Council on Minority Mental Health and Health Disparities.

Dr. Mangurian received her BA in Biology from Reed College. She graduated AOA from the UCSF School of Medicine, and completed her Psychiatry Residency and Chief Residency at Columbia University. She also completed the Columbia University Public Psychiatry Fellowship. Dr. Mangurian joined the faculty at UCSF Department of Psychiatry at Zuckerberg San Francisco General in 2009. She joined the faculty of the UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations in 2014. She received a UCSF Master's Degree in Clinical Research, with Implementation Science Track coursework, in 2015.