UCSF Taps Andy Josephson as New Dean for the School of Medicine
Dr. Andy Josephson has been at UCSF since 2001.
S. Andrew Josephson, MD, a master clinician and educator who has led UC San Francisco’s top-ranked Department of Neurology since 2017, has been named the next dean of the UCSF School of Medicine and vice chancellor for clinical affairs.
“I could not be more honored and thrilled to help lead the School of Medicine during this time of tremendous challenge and unprecedented opportunity,” Josephson said. “UCSF’s commitment to discovery and bringing innovations and advances to our patients is only matched by the incredible community of people who are dedicated to helping improve health in the Bay Area and worldwide.”
Since arriving at UCSF in 2001 for his internship and neurology residency, Josephson has built a rich and varied career across the university’s four missions of research, education, patient care, and public service. In the area of clinical care and innovation, he helped launch the neurohospitalist model of care, which became a national model.
In the research arena, he has cultivated vital collaborations and overseen the creation of critical infrastructure to support trainees, early-career investigators, and faculty alike. He is currently the principal investigator of an NIH-sponsored R25/UE5 award to support the training of physician-scientists across multiple departments. Josephson also serves as editor-in-chief of JAMA Neurology, one of the field’s leading journals.
Under his leadership, the department has consistently been the top recipient of neurology research funding from the National Institutes of Health, receiving nearly $120 million in 2025 for a wide range of fundamental and translational neuroscience grants, as well as clinical trials.