Joan Jeung, MD, MPH

Director of Resilience Clinic, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital; Senior Associate Director, UCSF Benioff Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Portal
Clinical Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Developmental Medicine, University of California San Francisco
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Joan Jeung, MD, MPH, FAAP, is Clinical Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Developmental Medicine at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine. Dr. Jeung’s research interests center around innovative programs that strengthen behavioral and developmental healthcare capacity in pediatric primary care. Dr. Jeung serves as Senior Associate Director of UCSF’s Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Portal (CAPP), a pediatric mental health care access portal for Northern California. She also directs the Resilience Clinic at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland, a primary care-based, caregiver/child group intervention for young children (ages 0-5) exposed to adversity.  Outside of UCSF, Dr. Jeung serves on the Executive Committee for the newly formed American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Council on Healthy Mental and Emotional Development (COHMED) and on the AAP Pediatric Mental Healthcare Access National Advisory Group. From 2017-2021, she served on the inaugural executive committee for the Section on Minority Health Equity and Inclusion (SOMHEI).