Meet Dr. Griffith

Dr. Qyana Griffith is a psychiatrist providing mental health services in California. She has over 9 years of experience working with clients in the inpatient, outpatient, emergency room and crisis settings. She is board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN) in general psychiatry.

 

Dr. Griffith completed her undergraduate studies at the University of California, Irvine where she earned a Bachelor’s of Science in Biological Sciences. She did research and published articles in the neurobiology of learning and memory with her research mentors. She obtained several NIH-sponsored grants to conduct research in Madrid, Spain; Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; Bamako, Mali. 

 

Dr. Griffith completed her medical training at Boston University School of Medicine. She also conducted research in Kisumu Kenya and obtained a Master’s in Molecular Medicine from Boston University. She then trained as a psychiatrist at the UCLA/San Fernando Valley Psychiatry Program. She was the Chief Resident of the Outpatient Mental Health Clinic at the Department of Veterans Affairs and California State University Northridge in her final year of training.

 

Dr. Griffith was awarded numerous awards during her career; while in medical school, she was awarded the Gold Humanism in Medicine Honor Society and the Ruth G. Hunter Johnson Prize in Psychiatry. During residency, she was voted Resident of the Year during her second year of residency, the Polished Diamond Award as awarded by the attending psychiatrists at the UCLA/San Fernando Valley Psychiatry Program and the Excellence in Psychiatric Education Award by the Southern California Psychiatric Society during her fourth year of residency and the Inspirational Physician Award from the Women Physicians Section of the American Medical Association as an attending psychiatrist.