Joan Jeung
About Joan Jeung
I came to academia after a decade of serving in a federally qualified health center for immigrants/refugees with the dream of using innovative clinical program development and research to help improve the capacity of pediatric primary care to address health disparities in children. My current clinical service and research at UCSF focuses on strengthening the capacity of pediatric primary care settings to address trauma, toxic stress, developmental delay, and behavioral/mental health concerns in children. By supporting and partnering with families during developmentally critical periods in the lives of their children, I strongly believe that healthcare systems can play a critical role in helping to tip the scales away from the negative sequelae of adversity towards resilience. Currently, I direct the Resiliency Clinic at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland, an interactive group-based intervention for parents of young children facing adversity to teach resiliency-promoting skills and promote stronger parent/child relationships. I am also senior associate director for UCSF’s Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Portal, which seeks to build the capacity of pediatric primary care providers to address mental health concerns in their patients.