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Angharad Rees-Jones
Clinical Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
BioDr. Angharad Rees-Jones is a clinical psychologist and Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Stanford University School of Medicine. At Stanford, she works on the adult inpatient psychiatric units, providing psychological assessment, brief intervention, and multidisciplinary consultation for individuals with serious mental illness.
Dr. Rees-Jones has extensive experience working in acute and complex medical and psychiatric settings, including inpatient burn care. Her work with burn survivors focused on supporting patients with traumatic injuries, adjustment, and recovery following life-altering events. Prior to joining Stanford, she also developed and led innovative programs including the Whole Person Care program in Kings County and the Mental Health Diversion program in Tulare County. She has worked as a consultant to Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) teams and has expertise in conducting LPS evaluations and risk assessments. Prior to her work in the United States, Dr. Rees-Jones trained and practiced as a forensic psychologist within the United Kingdom NHS and Prison Service, working with high-risk individuals and developing expertise in risk assessment, complex presentations, and the interface between mental health and the legal system.
Her clinical interests include serious mental illness, suicidality and self-harm, trauma, and supporting patients through high-acuity transitions of care using a compassion focused approach. She also spearheaded the integration of a facility dog program within inpatient settings to support patient engagement, emotional regulation, and therapeutic connection. Her therapeutic approach is person-centered, recovery-oriented, and trauma-informed, integrating cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT). She emphasizes practical skill-building, values-based action, and collaboration within interdisciplinary teams. Dr. Rees-Jones is also actively involved in teaching and mentorship, providing supervision and training for psychology practicum students and interdisciplinary education for medical staff. Her work is focused on improving access to psychologically informed care within inpatient and acute psychiatric settings. -
James H Reich
Adjunct Professor, Psych/General Psychiatry and Psychology (Adult)
BioI attended U.C. Berkeley for my B.S. degree, the University of Colorado for my MD and U.C. Davis for my psychiatric residency and did a fellowship in Psychiatric Epidemiology at Yale. I have been faculty at the University of Iowa, Harvard and Brown. I have published over a hundred papers in peer reviewed journals, mostly in the areas of anxiety and personality. I also founded a medical society, the Association for Research in Personality Disorders (ARPD).
Currently I am in private practice in San Francisco and teach at Stanford and UCSF. My treatment approaches for psychotherapy include CBT and mindfulness. I also do psychopharmacology which I have taught UCSF for many years.
I am also a board certified forensic psychiatrist in private practice focusing largely on civil cases. -
Daryn Reicherter
Clinical Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
BioDr. Reicherter the director of the Human Rights in Trauma Mental Health Laboratory.
He has expertise in the area of cross-cultural trauma psychiatry, having spent more than a decade dedicated to providing a combination of administrative and clinical services in trauma mental health locally and internationally. He is on the List of Experts for the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia and for the United Nations’ International Criminal Court. He is on the Fulbright Specialists Roster for his work in international trauma mental health. He is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Innovations in Global Health at Stanford University. He has created and cultivated new clinical rotations for residency education and medical school education in the community clinics that he operates. And he has created new opportunities for resident, medical student, and undergraduate education in Global Mental Health.
He has also been involved in the creation of clinical mental health programs for underserved populations in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is the Faculty Adviser for the Stanford’s Free Clinic Mental Health Program.
After receiving degrees in Psychobiology and Philosophy from the University of California at Santa Cruz, Dr. Reicherter completed his doctorate in medicine at New York Medical College. He completed internship and residency and served as Chief Resident at Stanford University Hospitals and Clinics. -
Benjamin Rein
Adjunct Lecturer, Psych/Public Mental Health & Population Sciences
BioBen Rein, PhD is a neuroscientist by training and science communicator whose research has focused on the neuroscience of empathy, the genetic basis of autism spectrum disorder, and how synaptic deficits modulate social behavior. In his postdoctoral work with Dr. Robert Malenka, Ben characterized the neurobiological mechanism by which MDMA acts as an "empathogen." His research has been honored with awards from the NIH, the Society for Neuroscience, and Sigma Xi.
Outside of the lab, Ben creates educational science videos for an audience of >1 million social media followers. His videos summarize recent research papers, teach neuroscience basics, and debunk viral videos containing misinformation. They have received over 60 million views and been featured on Good Morning America, ABC News, and other major media outlets. Ben has been profiled by Popular Mechanics and Spectrum News, appeared on Entertainment Tonight, and joined over 40 podcasts including StarTalk with Neil DeGrasse Tyson. Ben's science communication efforts have been recognized with awards from the National Academies of Science, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Society for Neuroscience.
Ben currently serves as the Chief Science Officer of the Mind Science Foundation and has served as a scientific/media consultant for more than 35 companies and foundations. He is a contributing editor at OpenMind Magazine, and the Founder & President of the Aspiring Scientists Coalition, an organization providing free guidance for students in 75+ countries. -
Allan L. Reiss
Howard C. Robbins Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Professor of Radiology
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy laboratory, the Center for Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences Research (CIBSR), focuses on multi-level scientific study of individuals with typical and atypical brain structure and function. Data are obtained from genetic analyses, structural and functional neuroimaging studies, assessment of endocrinological status, neurobehavioral assessment, and analysis of pertinent environmental factors. Our overarching focus is to model how brain disorders arise and to develop disease-specific treatments.
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Jenae Aesha Richardson
Clinical Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
BioDr. Jenae Richardson is a Clinical Assistant Professor and a CA Licensed Clinical Psychologist in the INSPIRE Clinic in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine. She also works in the acute psychiatric inpatient units at Stanford Hospital. She specializes in utilizing evidence-based treatments (EBTs) to treat individuals with psychosis and has worked with this population across inpatient and outpatient settings. She is passionate about improving the dissemination and implementation of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for psychosis (CBTp), and at the INSPIRE Clinic, she leads CBTp trainings for mental health professionals and provides CBTp to individuals with psychosis. Dr. Richardson completed her pre-doctoral internship at the University of Arizona’s Early Psychosis Intervention Center and her postdoctoral fellowship at Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System. She obtained her doctorate in clinical psychology from Long Island University Post and conducted research exploring barriers to implementing CBTp in the United States.
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Reiko Riley
Director of Education and Program Development, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Current Role at StanfordSr. Education Program Manager
Member of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Advisory Committee (Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences)
