Matthew Abrams
MD, PGY1 Psychiatry Resident (community psychiatry track)
UCSD
maabrams@health.ucsd.edu
San Diego, CA, USA

Area of expertise: Community Psychiatry

Matt Abrams was born and raised in San Diego. He attended Harvard University for college where he studied Psychology, Global Health Policy, and Spanish. Matt then moved to Madrid for 3 years to pursue a Fulbright Fellowship, teaching in an underserved high school. At the University of Central Florida (UCF) College of Medicine, Matt volunteered extensively at the student-run clinic for immigrant farm workers and directed UCF’s Peer Support Program.

Matt is an AAAP’s REACH scholar, a program committed to promoting harm reduction and reducing addiction disparities. He has published multiple articles related to peer support, resilience among Latinx immigrants, burnout, addiction psychiatry, and LGBTQ+ health equity. As a UCSD Community Track resident, he looks forward to pursuing his passions for advocacy, social justice, wellness promotion, and speaking Spanish while providing trauma-informed care to San Diego’s unsheltered, immigrant, and LGBTQ+ communities.