Lucy Ogbu-Nwobodo, MD, MS, MAS, completed medical school at the University of California, Davis, and residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)/McLean Harvard Psychiatry Program. She is dedicated to improving health care through social justice.
She serves on the faculty of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) in several clinical and leadership roles: Associate Program Director in the Psychiatry Residency Training Program, Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) in Public Psychiatry at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, and Lead Psychiatrist at the UCSF Alliance Health Project. She also holds a faculty appointment at Massachusetts General Hospital as a Faculty Researcher.
Her work focuses on equity-focused organizational initiatives, community engagement, research and mental health workforce development. She is also a Co-Editor of the Racism and Mental Health Equity column in Psychiatric Services, the monthly peer-reviewed medical journal of the American Psychiatric Association.