Cameron Quanbeck, MD

Cameron Quanbeck, MD, graduated from the UCLA Psychiatry Residency Program in 2001 and completed a fellowship in Forensic Psychiatry at UC Davis in 2002. He joined the Faculty of the UC Davis Forensic Psychiatry Program in 2003. In 2009, he joined the Department of Psychiatry Program in the San Mateo County Behavioral Health and Recovery Services. He has served on California Psychiatric Association committees that have sought to improve mental health laws in the State. He currently serves on the Executive Committee of the Treatment Advocacy Center, a national organization devoted to improving the care of those with serious mental illness and is also on the Board of Directors of the California Crisis Intervention Association. He has conducted research on how California’s civil commitment laws lead to the “criminalization of the mentally ill” and the prevention of violence in inpatient psychiatric settings.

Since 2010, he has served as the Medical Director of the Cordilleras Mental Health Rehabilitation Center and provides integrated psychiatric and medical care for persons with serious mental illness in San Mateo County. He is a Clinical Professor at the UCSF School of Nursing and has been a preceptor for UCSF Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner Students since 2012. He regularly presents at the Annual Conference of the California Association of LPS Hearing Officers on psychopharmacology updates. He has published journal articles on various topics, including the prevention of violence in community hospital settings, mental health collaboration with law enforcement, and the role of latent CNS infections and neuroinflammation in the etiology of mental illness.