Hoyle Leigh, MD.

Dr. Leigh is a Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at University of California, San Francisco. He is well-known as the author of the textbooks, Handbook of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry (with Jon Streltzer, M.D. of University of Hawaii) and The Patient: Biological, Psychological, and Social Dimensions of Medical Practice (with Morton F. Reiser of Yale), now in its 3rd edition. He is also the author of Genes, Memes, Culture, and Mental Illness: Toward an Integrative Model (Springer).  In addition, he is the author of more than one hundred publications. He is also the author of the novel, Korea 38-Parallels published by SutroCrest and Amazon.

Before coming to UCSF, Dr. Leigh was Professor of Psychiatry and Assistant Chief of Psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine and the Yale New Haven Hospital, in New Haven, Connecticut. 

He received his MD, summa cum laude, from Yonsei University, and MAH at Yale.  He trained at Long Island College Hospital, University of Kansas, Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, and at Yale.

Dr. Leigh is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, Fellow of American College of Physicians, American College of Psychiatrists, Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine, and International College of Psychosomatic Medicine.  He is a diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.

Dr. Leigh has developed a computerized database for consultation-liaison psychiatry. His research interests include the endorphinergic mechanisms of essential hypertension, psychiatry training for primary care physicians, the nature of psychiatric diagnosis, and the gene-meme interaction in mental health and illness.