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Samuel Ricardo Saenz, MD, MPH
Clinical Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
BioDr. Sam Saenz was born in the Bay Area and received his bachelor’s degree in psychology from Stanford University. He completed his medical degree at UC Irvine’s Program in Medical Education for the Latino Community, and he also obtained a Master’s in Public Health from UC Berkeley. After serving as chief psychiatry resident during his psychiatry residency at Stanford, he completed a fellowship in public psychiatry at UC San Francisco. His professional interests include fostering the next generation of diverse mental health providers and community advocacy.
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Debra Safer
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (General Psychiatry and Psychology-Adult)
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsPrimary research interests include the nature and treatment of eating disorders
(particularly bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder), the development and treatment of obesity, and the development and treatment of problematic eating patterns in patients following bariatric surgery. -
Khalid Salaheldin, MD
Clinical Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
BioDr. Khalid Salaheldin is a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine, specializing in early psychosis, schizophrenia-spectrum disorders, and interventional psychiatry. He serves as Assistant Medical Director of Stanford's INSPIRE Clinic and contributes to the advancement of INSPIRE 360, expanding comprehensive, coordinated, recovery-oriented care.
His clinical work spans outpatient early psychosis care, inpatient psychiatry, and interventional treatments, including electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). His approach is grounded in compassion, collaboration, and the belief that exceptional psychiatric care begins with understanding the person in front of the diagnosis. He integrates evidence-based treatments with attention to sleep, exercise, nutrition, mindfulness, psychotherapy, physical health, and meaningful relationships, emphasizing individualized care aligned with each patient's goals and values.
This commitment is also deeply personal. Through his experience supporting a relative affected by schizophrenia, Dr. Salaheldin brings a perspective informed by both clinical expertise and a personal understanding of the challenges faced by individuals and families navigating serious mental illness. This connection continues to shape his dedication to compassionate, family-centered care that preserves dignity, fosters hope, and recognizes the humanity beyond every diagnosis.
His academic interests include early psychosis interventions, precision psychiatry, neuromodulation, novel therapeutics, spirituality and mental health, global mental health, mental health policy, and physician well-being. He is particularly interested in translating advances in precision psychiatry and neuroscience into practical, personalized clinical interventions that improve outcomes and expand access to effective care. As a member of the EPICAL State Task Force, he contributes to expanding coordinated specialty care for early psychosis throughout California.
As the Department's Clinical Documentation and Billing/Coding Optimization Lead, Dr. Salaheldin is advancing innovative approaches that integrate documentation, coding education, and clinician well-being. His work aims to reduce administrative burden, meaningfully capture the complexity of clinical care, and give clinicians more time for patients, teaching, scholarship, and their own well-being.
Before joining Stanford, Dr. Salaheldin served as Academic Chief Resident at Northwell Health, where he helped develop an early psychosis consultation-liaison initiative supporting patients and families from their initial emergency department encounter through hospitalization and transition to outpatient care. This experience continues to inspire his commitment to expanding compassionate, coordinated mental health care locally and globally.
At the heart of his work is the belief that recovery extends beyond symptom reduction to restoring possibility, connection, purpose, and hope.
“True compassion means not only feeling another's pain, but also being moved to help relieve it.”
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Katherine Sanborn
Clinical Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
BioDr Katherine Sanborn specializes in the treatment of psychiatric inpatients. She has practiced Psychiatry for more than 15 years. Dr. Sanborn has a special interests in residency education, psychotherapy training, administration and developmental psychopathology.
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Maureen Satyshur
Clinical Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
BioDr. Satyshur is a licensed clinical psychologist who specializes in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, as well as interventions for LGBTQ+ individuals.
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Parnika Prashasti Saxena
Clinical Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
BioParnika Saxena is board certified in general and geriatric psychiatry. She completed her residency at St Elizabeth's Medical Center (affiliated with Tufts University School of Medicine) in Massachusetts and a clinical geriatric fellowship at the University of California, Los Angeles. She also worked as a research fellow in Clinical Psychopharmacology at Mclean Hospital (affiliated with Harvard Medical School) and also completed a psychoanalytic psychotherapy fellowship from the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. Her primary research interests lie in pharmacological and interventional treatments for resistant depression. At Stanford, she works on the inpatient service, outpatient geropsychiatry clinic and the electroconvulsive therapy service. She also serves at the program director of the Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship. In addition to her clinical and research interests, she is passionate about patient advocacy and promoting mental health legislative changes to benefit patient care and has testified in state senate hearings to that end as a physician representative of organizations like the Northern California Psychiatric Association and American Psychiatric Association.
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Salena Schapp
Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
BioDr. Salena Schapp is a licensed psychologist (PSY29619) and Co-Founder of Beyond Measure. She has experience treating patients across the lifespan, and a particular specialty working with children, adolescents, and families. In her work with children and families, Dr. Schapp is collaborative, compassionate, and playful. She provides a range of psychological services, specializing in treatment of eating disorders, anxiety, behavioral challenges, and trauma. Dr. Schapp is passionate about helping families create a supportive and strong parent-child relationship. She uses evidenced-based approaches to therapy, while individualizing treatment to match each patient’s needs, including cognitive behavioral therapy, family-based therapy, parent management training, parent-child interaction therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, and dialectical behavioral therapy. She practices from a weight-inclusive, Health at Every Size (HAES)® approach, to help individuals improve their relationship to food and their bodies. Dr. Schapp also has extensive experience with group therapy, and enjoys creating a supportive, safe, and helpful group environment. She is an Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor for the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine, where she runs a support group for psychiatry residents.
Dr. Schapp completed her graduate training in clinical psychology at the PGSP-Stanford PsyD Consortium, where she focused her studies on children and families. She finished her predoctoral internship training at University of Texas Austin/Dell Children’s Medical Center and her postdoctoral residency at Kaiser Permanente in Redwood City. Dr. Schapp enjoys giving back to the psychological community, and currently serves as the President of the SF Bay Area Chapter of the International Association for Eating Disorder Professionals. She has a strong interest in teaching and supervision, and has provided training opportunities and supervision for trainees at Kaiser Permanente and Beyond Measure. She also enjoys consulting with and teaching other professionals and the community at large through trainings and presentations. -
Alan F. Schatzberg
Kenneth T. Norris, Jr. Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsBiological bases of depressive disorders;, glucocorticoid/dopamine interactions in delusional depression;, pharmacologic treatment of depressive disorders.
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Mariana Schmajuk
Clinical Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
BioMariana Schmajuk received her medical school education at Boston University School of Medicine in 2012. She completed her General Adult Psychiatry Residency program Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York in 2016, serving as Chief Resident with a focus on the early transition from medical school to residency. She went on to complete her Consult-Liaison fellowship at New York-Presbyterian Hospital Columbia University Medical Center in 2017.
Dr. Schmajuk joined Stanford University CLP team in 2017. She is a primary member of the emergency medicine consultations, working collaboratively with a nurse practioner, social worker and residents. Clinically, Dr. Schmajuk focuses on treating patients with terminal neurological disorders and oncological processes. Dr. Schmajuk is the director of the Psychosomatic Continuity clinic where residents and fellows are able to assess and longitudinally treat patients with psychiatric sequela in the context of complex medical illness. She has a particular interest in brief psychotherapeutic interventions. She enjoys teaching medical students about CL psychiatry and interviewing skills. At present, Dr. Schmajuk is using techniques of applied improvisation to educate psychiatry residents and others about the building blocks of communication. She also is an active member of the bioethics committee.
