2025-2026 Public Psychiatry Fellows
Shelley Chen, MD, MS
Dr. Chen is originally from Beijing and grew up in inland Los Angeles. She graduated from Duke University with a bachelors of science in Economics and attend the UCSF-UC Berkeley Joint Medical Program for medical school. There, she engaged in both immunology and epidemiology research on maternal perinatal depression and impact on children's physical health. She is currently a 4th year resident at the San Mateo County Psychiatry Residency. In the public psychiatry fellowship, she looks forward to working at the Chinatown North Beach clinic and San Mateo County Central Mental Health Clinic. Her interests include improving quality of care in immigrant, perinatal, and substance use populations, teaching, psychopharmacology, and therapy. In her free time, she can be found at local cultural events, running events, or eating hotpot with family and friends.
Binx Lin, MD, MSc
Binx Lin was born and raised in a small city in Southern China. They completed medical school at Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, earning both an MD and an MSc, followed by general psychiatry residency at Virginia Tech, where they cultivated a clinical focus on sexually and racially minoritized populations. They are currently completing both the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship (2024–2026) and the Public Psychiatry Fellowship at UCSF. Binx will also serve as a Chief Fellow in the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship program. Their current interests include child, community, cultural, and addiction psychiatry, as well as health equity, LGBTQ+ health, and health services research. They are also passionate about community outreach for minoritized populations. Binx hopes to further explore the interface of child psychiatry and public mental health through work in community clinics, deepening their commitment to advancing mental health equity for marginalized youth.
Shruti Rajan, MD
Dr. Rajan (she/her) was born in India and, after moving around during childhood, spent most of her life in Wisconsin. She earned a BS in Neurobiology and Psychology with a certificate in Philosophy from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and completed her MD at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. Before medical school, she worked in rural South India as a William J. Clinton Fellow and at NAMI-Dane County supporting youth mental health and jail diversion. She is currently completing her final year of residency at the San Mateo County Psychiatry Residency Program, where she serves as co-chief resident, while also participating in the UCSF Public Psychiatry Fellowship. Her interests include addiction, asylum and immigrant mental health, and developing a trauma-informed and equitable care lens for system-impacted populations. She has helped consider ways to integrate asylum evaluation training into the residency and county systems, co-developed a “Diet for Depression” support group, and has been part of the resident team providing OUD treatment in the county jails. Outside of medicine, Dr. Rajan enjoys type 2 fun activities like hiking and backpacking, cooking elaborate meals with her partner but also cuddling up with her two cats and reading to balance outdoor time.
Staci Vo, DO, MS
Dr. Vo is from Southern California and currently is a Psychopharmacology Consultant within the Psychopharmacology Resource Network at California Department of State Hospitals (DSH). In this role she constructs and delivers educational lectures for DSH staff and contracted providers as well as other forensic systems and she provides consultation support to individual prescribers. She is board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in Psychiatry, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and Forensic Psychiatry. She received a Doctorate of Osteopathic Medicine at Western University Health Sciences in 2008, completed her psychiatry residency at Cedars Sinai Medical Center, her child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at the University of California, Irvine (UCI), and her forensic psychiatry fellowship at the University of Southern California. She is volunteer faculty at Western University Health Sciences and at the University of California, Riverside (UCR). She has been involved with teaching trainees throughout her career; she was the Associate Program Director of the Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship at UCI, was site director of the juvenile delinquency rotation and supervised an outpatient clinic for UCR Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellows and is currently involved with teaching of UCR residents rotating at Patton State Hospital. Most of her clinical career has been with underserved children and justice-system involved adults with serious mental illness. She is interested in identifying and promoting interventions aimed at decriminalizing the seriously mentally ill population. *
*Completing captsone portion of the fellowship