Hoyle Leigh

Dr. Leigh is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and Director Emeritus of the Psychosomatic Medicine Program at UCSF Fresno. He is well-known as the author of the textbooks, Handbook of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry (with Jon Streltzer, M.D. of University of Hawaii), now in the 2nd Edition, and The Patient: Biological, Psychological, and Social Dimensions of Medical Practice (with Morton F. Reiser of Yale), now in its 3rd edition, and of the pioneering book, Genes, Memes, Culture, and Mental Illness: Toward an Integrative Model. He is also the author of the historical fiction, Korea 38-Parallels and the literary works; According to Hoyle: Poems, Plays, Stories, and Ideas; and John the Rifleman and Other Stories: Casebook of a Consulting Psychiatrist. He is also the author of more than one hundred professional journal articles. Prior to his tenure at 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. His research interests include global psychosomatic medicine, psychiatry training for medical students and primary care physicians, the nature of psychiatric diagnosis, and the gene x meme x environment interaction in mental health and illness.