Jonathan Potter Nye
Jonathan Potter Nye, MD
Associate Professor and Chair

Department of Psychiatry
University of California
USA

Education

1982 - 1986 BA Magna Cum Laude
International Development/African Studies
Yale University, New Haven, CT
1987 - 1988 Post-Baccalaureate Premedical Program Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA
1989 - 1993 MD University of California, San Francisco
1993 - 1994 Rotating Internship University of California, San Francisco
1994 - 1997 Residency in Psychiatry University of California, San Francisco
1996 - 1997 Intensive Study of the Work of Wilfred Bion San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute
2001 - 2002 The Work of Wilfred Bion Northern California Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology Year-long Intensive Study Group
2002 - 2003 The British Middle School Northern California Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology Year-long Intensive Study Group
2002 - 2003 Professional Supervision (Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy) Mary Margaret McClure, DMH
2003 - 2004 Comparative Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Transference San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute

 

Biography

Jonathan Nye is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco.  He holds a BA from Yale and an MD from UCSF, where he also completed his psychiatric residency.  He has spent most of his career at San Francisco General Hospital and currently directs the HIV Team on the Inpatient Psychiatry service.  He has won numerous awards for excellence in teaching at UCSF.  His professional interests include psychiatric education and the provision of services for HIV positive or at-risk patients with severe mental illness.

 

Research Interest

  • Psychiatric Education
  • HIV Psychiatry
  • Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual
  • Transgender Issues
  • Schizophrenia
  • Psychiatric Services Research
  • Data Analysis/Mining
  • Visual Display of Medical/Public Health Data
  • Psychoanalytic Understanding of Psychosis
  • Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
  • Psychiatric education
  • HIV Psychiatry
  • Inpatient/acute services
  • History of Psychiatry
  • Social theory

Professional Activities:

  
1994 - 1995 Staff Psychiatrist   Jail Psychiatric Services, San Francisco, CA
1995 - 1997 Psychiatric Consultant   Walden House, Inc., San Francisco, CA Adolescent Boys Facility
1997 - 1999 Clinical Instructor of Psychiatry San Francisco General Hospital, Department of Psychiatry University of California, San Francisco
1999 - 2001 Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry San Francisco General Hospital, Department of Psychiatry University of California, San Francisco
1997 - present Private Practice of Psychiatry
2000 - 2003 Psychiatrist California Pacific Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry Brown and Toland Medical Group
2004 - 2011 Senior Physician Specialist, Psychiatry San Francisco Mental Health Rehabilitation Center and Skilled Nursing Facility San Francisco Department of Public Health, Community Behavioral Health Services, San Francisco Behavioral Health Center, Mental Health Rehabilitation Center and Skilled Nursing Facility
2011 - 2012 Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry San Francisco General Hospital, Department of Psychiatry University of California, San Francisco
2011 - 2013 Team Leader Attending Psychiatrist San Francisco General Hospital, Department of Psychiatry San Francisco General Hospital Inpatient Psychiatry Service, Asian Focus Unit
2013 - present Team Leader Attending Psychiatrist San Francisco General Hospital, Department of Psychiatry San Francisco General Hospital Inpatient Psychiatry Service, LGBT and HIV Focus Unit

 

Publications

  1. Perrone RD; Nye JP; McBride DE; Zanhiser DJ; Geyer JJ; Ucci AA. Aldosterone Induces Apical Vesicles in Rat Distal Colon American Journal of Physiology,1990 July, 259 (1 pt 2) : F65-71
  2. Eisendrath SJ; Nye JP. Somatoform Disorders: Keys to Successful Management in the Primary Care Setting  Journal of Musculoskeletal Medicine, 1997 July, pp. 47-54.