California Pacific Medical Center (CPMC) is one of the largest private, not-for-profit, academic medical centers in Northern California and is a Sutter Health affiliate. We are a tertiary referral center providing access to leading edge medicine while delivering the best possible personalized care. The Health Psychology Program provides consultation and liaison services to two of the hospital’s largest departments (Radiation Oncology and Cardiac Rehabilitation) and inpatient consultation and liaison services to two inpatient services (Palliative Medicine and the Adult Cystic Fibrosis). The focus of the Health Psychology Program is to collaborate with medical staff and teams of multi-disciplinary providers to provide evaluation and psychosocial support services to patients and families coping with the effects of major medical illnesses.

Contact Information

Jeremy E. Bornstein, Ph.D.
Director of Health Psychology
Department of Psychiatry
2340 Clay Street, 7th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94115
415-600-3540
Bornstjx@sutterhealth.org

Our Mission

CPMC’s mission is to serve our community by providing high quality, cost-effective health care service in a compassionate and respectful environment, which is supported and stimulated by education and research.

Type of Training

Fellows are trained to provide consultation-liaison services in a variety of medical settings. Services include diagnostic evaluation, individual and group psychotherapy, multidisciplinary treatment planning. Our staff specializes in health psychology, geropsychology, brief psychotherapy, consultation work, and neuropsychological assessment. Fellows are encouraged to develop their professional practice skills, including the demands of independent clinical practice.

Theoretical Orientation

Biopsychosocial, Cognitive-Behavioral, Existential, and Psychodynamic.

Patient Population

Patients from CPMC’s Oncology and Cardiology outpatient clinics and Palliative Care and Adult Cystic Fibrosis inpatient services.

Health Psychology Staff

The Health Program is staffed by three Clinical Health Psychologists and either two or three post-doctoral fellows. However, the Department of Psychiatry is comprised of over 25 faculty members and includes residency training in psychiatry and a large psychology pre-doctoral internship program.

Training and Education

Specialized training in health psychology designed to develop clinical competence in the evaluation and treatment of cancer, cardiac, terminally ill, and advanced lung disease patients. Training includes health psychology seminars, department grand rounds, and participation in multidisciplinary team meetings. Additional training is offered through the Department of Psychiatry. The medical staff and psychosocial teams work collaboratively to provide coordinated care and to devise comprehensive treatment plans.

Responsibilities

As a principal member of multidisciplinary teams, postdocs provide evaluation and brief clinical intervention to patients and family members. Trainees are afforded the unique experience of working primarily with a wide ranging non-clinical population. A large proportion of time is spent conducting evaluations and delivering psychosocial services to patients and their family members as appropriate. Trainees facilitate weekly support groups, provide educational lectures for patients and staff, and contribute to program development. Opportunities exist to work with ongoing therapy cases on fee-for-service basis.

Prerequisites

Completion of PhD or PsyD from APA-approved program. Completed predoctoral internship. Prior experience and training in health psychology preferred.

Application Process

Send a letter of intent, an updated curriculum vita, and three letters of recommendation to the training director at the address listed above. Applications received by January 15th will be given priority. Interviews are conducted in February and offers will be made in coordination with other local postdoctoral programs.
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