Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
Stanford
Yelizaveta (Liza) Sher, MD received her bachelor’s degree from the University of California at Berkeley, where she majored in Molecular and Cell Biology with emphasis in Neuroscience. She then worked in Molecular Biology Lab at the VA Medical Center in San Francisco, where she conducted basic science research on Complex I and Complex II of the respiratory chain, resulting in several publications.
Dr. Sher joined the Stanford faculty in October 2012. She was awarded 2012-2013 Webb Fellowship by the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry. During her fellowship and continuing into her faculty time, Dr. Sher has been involved in several research projects, including the development and validation of a tool to help predict severe alcohol withdrawal among medically ill individuals, Prediction of Alcohol Withdrawal Severity Scale (PAWSS), a tool to diagnose delirium via the proxy Stanford Proxy Tool for Delirium (S-PTD), and an ongoing study designed to validate the SIPAT.
Her most recent clinical and research interests include mental health of transplant patients, in particular lung transplant recipients, and mental health of people with cystic fibrosis. In fact, she serves as a consultant to the Stanford Lung Transplant team and is embedded within the Stanford Adult CF Clinic, where she serves as the Director of Psychiatric and Psychological Program. She continues to develop Transplant Psychiatry at Stanford to improve delivery of mental health care to patients undergoing transplantation and to improve their quality of life and post-transplant outcomes.
