Randall Espinoza, MD, MPH, MD, MPH
Randall Espinoza, MD, MPH is currently the Muriel Harris Chair of Geriatric Psychiatry and Professor of Clinical Psychiatry in the Division of Geriatric Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. From 2007 to 2009 he served as Chief of Staff of the Stuart and Lynda Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital at UCLA, and continues to serve in other departmental, hospital and medical school leadership roles. In 2009 he was selected as Director of the UCLA Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Training Program. Since 2000 he has been Medical Director of the Electroconvulsive Therapy and Interventional Psychiatry Program and he also serves on the Medical IRB of the UCLA School of Medicine. He received his BS degree in Bioengineering from Columbia University in New York, MD from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, and Executive MPH (Health Services and Management) from the University of California, Los Angeles School of Public Health. He completed psychiatry residency training at UT Southwestern / Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, at UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill, NC, and at the Sepulveda VAMC and Olive View-UCLA Hospitals. He completed a geriatric psychiatry fellowship at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute and holds certification in ECT and TMS from the Association for Convulsive Therapy as well as practices or investigates other neuromodulation treatments (e.g., VNS, DBS). He is a Master Educator with certification from the Association for Academic Psychiatry and completed the UCLA Medical Faculty Fellowship program. In 2002 he received the Outstanding House Staff Teaching Award from the UCLA Department of Psychiatry, and in 2003 he received a Geriatric Academic Career Development Award (K01) from the Human Resources and Services Administration of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. In 2020, he was elected to membership of the American College of Psychiatry. He is actively involved in American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, Association for Academic Psychiatry, American Psychiatric Association (Distinguished Fellow, 2009) and other professional scientific societies. For 15 years, he was a Co-Director for the Annual UCLA Geriatric Medicine Intensive Course and Board Review. He is on the Editorial Board of Academic Psychiatry and of Depression and Anxiety and a reviewer for many journals. He regularly contributes to UCLA Healthy Years, a quarterly newsletter of the Division of Geriatric Medicine at UCLA and has published research articles, editorials, book chapters and monographs. He maintains an active clinical practice as well as an education and research portfolio.