Debra R. Kahn, M.D. for UC Davis Health

Debra R. Kahn, M.D.

Debra R. Kahn, M.D.

Health Sciences Clinical Professor

Medical Director, Advanced Psychiatric Therapeutics

Director, Psychiatry Consultation-liaison Fellowship

To see if Debra R. Kahn is accepting new patients, or for assistance finding a UC Davis doctor, please call 800-2-UCDAVIS (800-282-3284).

Specialties

Psychiatry

Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry

Locations and Contact

Psychiatry Academic Department

Psychiatry Department
2230 Stockton Blvd.
Sacramento, CA 95817

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Cannery Building



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Additional Numbers

Clinic Fax

916-734-0849

Department Referral Phone

916-734-3574

Physician Referrals

800-4-UCDAVIS (800-482-3284)

Clinical Interests

Dr. Kahn is the medical director of Advanced Psychiatric Therapeutics at UC Davis, which offers novel therapies such as TMS, Spravato, ECT, and SAINT to patients with treatment refractory mental health conditions.

She is also the director of transplant psychiatry, where she provides consultations for patients interested in kidney or liver transplant or living organ donation.

Dr. Kahn runs the inpatient psychiatric consultation service that provides assistance to medical and surgical patients within our busy tertiary care teaching hospital.

She also provides outpatient consultations and psychiatric care for patients wishing to receive renal transplantation, donate a kidney, or receive weight loss surgery.

 

Research/Academic Interests

Dr. Kahn is the Psychiatry Consultation-liaison Fellowship director. 

Division

Psychiatry

Center/Program Affiliation

Transplant Center

Undergraduate School

B.A., Stanford University, Palo Alto CA 1994

Medical School

M.D., UC San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco CA 2001

Internship

Psychiatry and Family Medicine, UC Davis Medical Center, Sacramento CA 2001-2002

Residency

Psychiatry, UC Davis Medical Center, Sacramento CA 2002-2006

Bourgeois JA, Kahn D, Servis M. Reflections on psychosomatic medicine as a third-year medical student clerkship: an integrated experience that demonstrates  the biopsychosocial model. Acad Psychiatry. 2012 May 1;36(3):240-2.

Kahn DR, Bourgeois JA, Klein SC, Iosif AM. A prospective observational study of decisional capacity determinations in an academic medical center. Int J Psychiatry Med. 2009;39(4):405-15.

Xiong GL, Palomino A, Kahn DR, Bourgeois JA. Antipsychotic induced catatonia: a case of probable dementia with Lewy bodies. J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci. 2009 Fall;21(4):472-3.

Leung MW, Kahn D. Manic Symptoms with Psychotic Features Following a Hysterectomy. Psychiatry Weekly. 6(10), 2011.