Lisa Fortuna, MD, Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist

Lisa Fortuna MD
Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Professor
University of California San Francisco
lisa.fortuna@ucsf.edu
San Francisco, California, USA

Area of expertise: Child and adolescent, adult, PTSD, immigrant health


Lisa Fortuna, MD, MPH is a bilingual, bicultural Latina Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Chief of Psychiatry and Vice-Chair at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital/UCSF. She has been an investigator on several National Institutes of Health and foundation-funded studies of Latino and immigrant mental health, optimizing family navigation for addressing child behavioral health in primary care and culturally responsive care for PTSD. She has conducted asylum evaluations since 2007, as a member of the Physician for Human Rights, Asylum Network.