Oluwatosin Fancher, MD

Dr. Oluwatosin Adebiyi Fancher is a multimodal artist, world citizen, and UCSF Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (CAP) fellow whose mission is to champion healing for young people through clinical expertise, ancestral wisdom, and a deep belief in the power of imagination.

Dr. Fancher grew up between New York City, Ocala, and Lagos, Nigeria. She carried that expansive worldview into the University of Iowa, where she earned dual bachelor's degrees in Human Physiology and Art/Art History. She completed her M.D. at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, where she founded the Stress Fest wellness initiative, co-founded the Upstander Intervention Training, and led projects at the Health Equity in Action Lab. Seeing the pandemic's disproportionate toll on the mental health of her community, she pursued a Master of Public Health at UC Berkeley with certificates in global health and multicultural health. She then went on to complete her adult psychiatry residency at UCSF, developing clinical expertise in coordinated specialty care for early psychosis and perinatal mental health.

As a UCSF CAP Fellow in the public psychiatry program her interests include early psychosis care, supporting family systems through psychodynamic and drama therapy, and reducing global mental health stigma so that every young person can access care that sees them fully.