Steven Huege, MD, associate program director of the University of Pennsylvania’s geriatric psychiatry fellowship program, has accepted a new role at the University of California, San Diego.
Dr. Huege will leave the Penn Memory Center after eight years to become director of the UCSD geriatric psychiatry fellowship program in May. He will divide his time between the San Diego VA and the university’s Senior Behavioral Health Program and Department of Psychiatry.
“This is a new phase of my career, and I’m looking forward to the opportunity to continue working with trainees in geriatric psychiatry,” said Huege, assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Penn.
Huege began his current role with the Penn Memory Center in 2008 after completing his fellowship in geriatric psychiatry at Penn. He’s become increasingly involved in working with fellows and residents. He said working with the Penn Memory Center and its clinical trials has provided him with a “rich education in research.”
“I’m really very grateful for the opportunity to have worked with such a dynamic and supportive team. I really have learned tremendously from all of my colleagues,” he said. “This is a program that both provides excellent patient care in addition to research and outreach, and I’ve been very grateful to have been a part of that for eight years now.”
Huege received his undergraduate degree from Duke University and his MD from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School. He completed a residency is psychiatry at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital before his fellowship at Penn.