Jena Lee Chung, MD
Biography
Dr. Jena Lee is a board-certified child and adult psychiatrist and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. She completed her undergraduate education at the University of Chicago and her medical education at the University of Washington School of Medicine. After her intern year in Internal Medicine at Harbor-ULCA, she completed her training in General and Child Psychiatry at Stanford University.
Dr. Lee serves as the Director of the Pediatric Psychiatry Consult-Liaison and Pediatric Emergency Psychiatry services at UCLA xMattel Children’s Hospital. She also serves as an attending in the Child and Adult Neurodevelopmental (CAN) Clinic and as a staff psychiatrist at UCLA Behavioral Health Associates (BHA).
Dr. Lee provides evidence-based psychiatric diagnostic and treatment services for a wide range of disorders. Her particular areas of clinical interest include suicide prevention, neurodevelopmental disorders and the medical psychiatric interface.
Education
- University of Chicago, B.S., B.A.
- University of Washington School of Medicine,M.D.
- Stanford School of Medicine, General Psychiatry Residency
- Stanford School of Medicine, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship
Research & Clinical Interests
- Psychosomatic medicine
- Psychiatric symptoms in children with complex medical illness
- Cross-cultural psychiatry/medicine
- Autism spectrum disorders
- Emergency psychiatry
- Assessment and treatment of youth who struggle with suicidality
Roles within the division/Fellowship
- Director, Pediatric C/L Psychiatry Rotation
- Attending, Child and Adult Neurodevelopmental (CAN) Clinic
- Adult Psychiatrist, Behavioral Health Associates
- Private academic practice of general child psychiatry
- Lectures on topics such as child emergency psychiatry, psychiatric illness and sleep disorders, psychopharmacology