Steve Koh, MD, MPH, MBA, DFAPA

E-mail: shkoh77@yahoo.com

Work Experience

  • Chief, General Psychiatry Division, UC San Diego, Department of Psychiatry – September 2021-present
  • Clinical Professor – University of California, San Diego – July 2021-present
  • Director, University of California, San Diego, Community Psychiatry Program – Aug 2013-present

Education

  • University of California at San Diego, School of Medicine – MD – Class of 2006
  • The Johns Hopkins University
    • MBA – School of Professional Studies in Business and Education (now Carey School of Business) – Class of 2004 – focus in non-profits, management, and business strategy
    • MPH – Bloomberg School of Public Health – Class of 2004 – focus in life span studies, mental health, and organizational behavior
    • BA – School of Arts and Sciences – Biology – Class of 1999

Residency/Training

  • T32 National Institute of Health Geriatric Psychiatry Research Fellow
    • University of California, San Diego – primary mentor Dr Dilip Jeste – July 2011 – July 2012
  • Geriatric Psychiatry Clinical Fellow – University of California, San Diego
    • Department of Psychiatry – Fellowship Director Dr Daniel Sewell – July 2010 – July 2011
  • Chief Resident VA Hospital San Diego – University of California, San Diego
    • Department of Psychiatry – Training Director Dr Sidney Zisook – July 2009 – July 2010
  • PGY-2, 3 – University of California, San Diego
    • Department of Psychiatry – Training Director Dr Sidney Zisook – July 2007 – July 2009
  • PGY-1 – Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, NY
    • Department of Psychiatry – Training Director Dr David Roane – July 2006 – July 2007

Publications

  • Peer Review
    • N Fountoulakis, Koh S, et al., Results of the COVID-19 mental health international for the health professionals (COMET-HP) study: depression, suicidal tendencies and conspiracism. Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol. 2023 Mar 3:1–24. doi: 10.1007/s00127-023-02438-8. Epub ahead of print.
      PMID: 36867224; PMCID: PMC9982799.
    • Robitz R, Ojha P, Koh S. Psychiatrists' Involvement in a Public Health Response to Human Trafficking. Psychiatr Serv. 2023 Feb 1;74(2):212. doi: 10.1176/appi.ps.20220430. Epub 2022 Oct 18. PMID: 36254456.
    • Schneeberger, A.R., Thackaberry, J., Sietsma, A., Ashbrook, C. & Koh, S. (2022). Stimulant use by athletes – the role of sports psychiatry. Sports Psychiatry, 1–2. doi:10.1024/2674-0052/a000027
    • Fountoulakis KN, Koh S, et al., The effect of different degrees of lockdown and self-identified gender on anxiety, depression and suicidality during the COVID-19 pandemic: Data from the international COMET-G study. Psychiatry Res. 2022 Sep;315:114702. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2022.114702. Epub 2022 Jul 1. PMID: 35839639; PMCID: PMC9247180.
    • Jeste DV, Koh S, Pender VB. Perspective: Social Determinants of Mental Health for the New Decade of Healthy Aging. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2022 Jun;30(6):733-736. doi: 10.1016/j.jagp.2022.01.006. Epub 2022 Jan 21. PMID: 35172936.
    • Fountoulakis KN, Koh S, et al., Results of the COVID-19 mental health international for the general population (COMET-G) study. Eur Neuropsychopharmacol. 2022 Jan;54:21-40. doi: 10.1016/j.euroneuro.2021.10.004. Epub 2021 Oct 15. PMID: 34758422; PMCID: PMC8609892.
    • Rachel M. Talley, Mary F. Brunette, David A. Adler, Lisa B. Dixon, Jeff Berlant, Matthew D. Erlich,
      Beth Goldman, Michael First, Steve Koh, David W. Oslin, Sam Siris, “Telehealth with the Community SMI Population: Reflections on the Disrupter Experience of COVID,” J Nerv Ment Dis. 2021 Jan;209(1):49-53
    • Dixon LB, Adler DA, Berlant J, Brunette MF, Erlich M, First MB, Goldman B, Koh S, Levine B,
      Oslin DW, Siris S. Managing Our Public Selves. Psychiatr Serv. 2020 Nov 1;71(11):1196-1198. doi: 10.1176/appi.ps.202000078. Epub 2020 Jun 10. PMID: 32517644
  • Books and Chapters
    • “Diversity in Action: Case Studies in Cultural Psychiatry,” Editor, Steve Koh, Gabriela Mejia, and Hilary Gould, Spinger, 2022

Presentations

  • San Diego Family Medicine Conference Invite Talk - Updates in Dementia, Current Best Practices and
    Looking to the Future – June 2023
  • LGBTQIA Health Conference Invited Speaker – Kaiser Medical School –Mental Health Across the Lifespan:
    US and International Perspectives – May 2023
  • UCLA-Kern Department of Psychiatry Grand Rounds - Community Psychiatry: Origins, Current State and
    Future – Nov 2022
  • APA Fellows Practice of Medicine Invited talks – 2022-2023
  • APA Annual Meeting – May 2022 - Social Determinants of Mental Health: Clinical Assessment and
    Structurally Competent Treatment Interventions
  • APA Annual Meeting – May 2022 - Social Determinants of Mental Health in DSM – Co-Chair
  • Geriatric Psychiatry Grand Rounds – Naval Balboa – Feb 2022
  • Dementia Screening and Treatment – Family Health Centers of San Diego – Feb 2022
  • UCSD Department of Psychiatry Full Professor Lecture – Oct 2021
  • San Diego County Presentation – Aducanumab – July 2021

Leadership

  • County of San Diego
    • Alzheimer’s Disease Initiative, Clinical Council Member – 2015-present
  •  County of San Diego; Behavioral Health
    • San Diego County Hospital Association – Behavioral Health – 2022-present
  • American Psychiatric Association
    • APA CEO Search Committee – Member – 2023-2024
    • APA Investment Oversight Committee – Member – 2023-2026
    • APA Council on Quality Care – Member – 2022-2025
    • APA ASM Future of ASM Taskforce – 2021-2022
    • APA ASM Social Determinants of Health Workgroup – 2022-present
    • Presidential Task Force on Social Determinants of Mental Health – 2021-2022
    • APA ASM Psychiatric Diagnosis and DSM Committee – 2021-present
    • APA Strategic Finance Workgroup – 2020-present
    • APA Audit Committee – 2020-present
  •  San Diego Psychiatric Society (APA District Branch)
    • SDPS Local Legislative Representative – 2015-present
  • American Medical Association
    • AMA RUC – APA Advisor – 2023-present
  • California State Association of Psychiatrists
    • Government Affairs Member (San Diego Psychiatric Society) – 2022-present
    • Government Affairs Chair – Jan 2021-2022
  • California Medical Association
    • CMA AB890 Taskforce 2021-2023
    • CMA Health IT Committee Member – 2016-present
  •  San Diego County Medical Society
    • President-Elect – 2023-present
    • Workforce Development Committee – 2022-present
    • Diversity and Equity Committee – 2020-present

Teaching and Service Activities

  • UCSD School of Public Health – MPH Program
    • Lecturer in Mental Health MPH Concentration program – FMPH 426
    • FMPH 428 – Dissemination and Implementation, Policy and Health Services in Mental Health
  • UCSD Service – 2020-present
    • UCSD Health System Clinical Compensation Committee – 2023-present
    • UCSD Population Health Value Based Committee – 2022-present
    • UCSD Health System Leadership Council – 2022-present
    • Department of Psychiatry and Emergency Medicine Department partnership with San Diego City
      Emergency Medical Services project lead – 2022-present
    • Department of Psychiatry Clinical Compensation Committee Chair – Jan 2022-present
    • UCSD Population Health Psychiatry Member – March 2022-present
    • Department of Psychiatry Peer Review Committee – 2018-present
    • PARS Peer Messenger Committee – 01/2021-present

Fellowships / Honors

  • 2022 NAMI San Diego and Imperial County Program of the Year Award – UCSD Community Psychiatry
    Program
  • 2022 NAMI Exemplary Psychiatrist Award – June 2022
  • Inaugural Lecture for APA RFM Fellowship Program – May 2022
  • Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association – 2021-present
  • Top Doc – San Diego Magazine and San Diego Physician – Geriatric Psychiatry – 2019
  • UC San Diego Health Leadership Academy – Class of 2018

Grants / Contracts / MOUs

  • Grants
    • HRSA – Advanced Nursing Education Nurse Practitioner Residency and Fellowship –
      6T59HP49661-01-01 – $2.8mil – 2023-2027
    • San Diego County BHS MHSA WET grant – $17.2mil – 2023-2027
    • HCAI New Psychiatry Residency grant with Imperial County Behavioral Health Services – $2.4mil –
      2023-2025
    • HCAI Psychiatry Residency Expansion grant – $4.2mil – 2023-2028
    • HCAI HPPP grant – Behavioral Workforce Development - $2.5mil – 2023-2028
    • HRSA – Nurse Education, Practice, Quality, and Retention – FHCSD - $1.5mil – 2020-2023
    • SAMHSA – co-PI – SYHealth Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC) - $4 mil,
      May 2020-Apr 2022