Education
Dr. Lerner graduated with a B.A. in sociology from Rice University and received her M.D. at the Baylor College of Medicine (Menninger Department of Psychiatry) in Houston. She completed her residency in psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco, and subsequently the Foundations of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy program at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis. Dr. Lerner is board certified in Psychiatry and Neurology.
Awards
| 2011 | Committee Person of the Year, Northern California Psychiatric Society | |
| 2008 | Spiegel Fellowship, Society for the Study of Psychiatry and Culture | |
| 2008 | Creative Activity Award, Department of Psychiatry, UCSF | |
| 2007 | Resident Teaching Fellowship, UCSF |
Presentations
| 2020 | Chronic Menstrual Pain and Mental Health Mental Health America, Webinar | |
| 2018 | Fostering Resiliency in Ourselves and our Patients San Francisco Psychotherapy Research Group | |
| 2017 | Psychological Effects of Sexism and Gender Stereotyping San Francisco Psychotherapy Research Group | |
| 2014 | Mental Health and the Asylum-Seeking Process Tahirih Justice Center | |
| 2014 | Psychological Effects of Trauma Tahirih Justice Center | |
| 2012 | SSRI's in Pregnancy Marin General Hospital Grand Rounds | |
| 2012 | Obstetrical Crisis in a Patient with Schizophrenia Marin General Hospital Grand Rounds | |
| 2011 | Depression & Stress Tiburon-Belvedere Rotary Club | |
| 2011 | Cultural Competency Guidelines: A New Look Northern California Psychiatric Society Annual Meeting | |
| 2010 | Adopting Cultural Competency Guidelines to Consider Intra-ethnic Oppression Affecting Disenfranchised Subgroups International Conference on Sociology, Athens, Greece | |
| 2008 | Individualizing Cultural Formulation: The Culturally Sensitive Therapist and Identity Conflict within a Patient Society for the Study of Psychiatry and Culture Annual Conference |