Matthew State

Dr. Matthew State is senior vice president of UCSF Health, president of UCSF's Langley Porter Psychiatric Hospital and Clinics (LPPHC), director of the Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute and chair of the UCSF Department of Psychiatry. His responsibilities include expanding access to the highest quality mental health care, developing world-class programs in research and education, and integrating psychiatry into the university's neuroscience community. State also leads mental health services at Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center, UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals and the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center. He is the Oberndorf Family Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and a member of the UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences.

State earned his undergraduate and medical degrees from Stanford University. He is board certified in child and adolescent psychiatry and earned a PhD in human genetics from Yale University, where he was on the faculty before coming to UCSF. Over the past two decades, State's laboratory has played a leading role in the discovery of genes underlying autism spectrum disorder, Tourette syndrome and brain malformation syndromes. He now collaborates extensively with colleagues at UCSF, Yale and other institutions to understand how these genetic mutations result in changes in brain development, as a path to identifying new and more effective treatments. State has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals and received numerous national and international awards, including the Rhoda and Bernard Sarnat International Prize in Mental Health. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine.