Matthew State, MD

Dr. Matthew State is senior vice president of UCSF Health, president of UCSF's Langley Porter Psychiatric Hospital and Clinics (LPPHC), and chair of the UCSF Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. 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 Behavioral Sciences and a member of the UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences.

State earned his undergraduate and medical degrees from Stanford University and his PhD degree in human genetics from Yale University. He is board certified in child and adolescent psychiatry. Over the past two decades, State's laboratory has been a leader in the identification of genes underlying autism spectrum disorder and Tourette syndrome. He now collaborates extensively with colleagues at UCSF and other institutions to illuminate the neurobiology of these syndromes, leveraging his lab's genetic discoveries. State was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2013.