The founding PsychSnaps team of clinician-educators
IRINA (ERA) KRYZHANOVSKAYA, MD, ZOË KOPP, MD & EMMA SAMELSON-JONES, MD
EMMA SAMELSON-JONES, MD
Dr. Emma Samelson-Jones is a psychiatrist and educator. She likes to help primary care providers advance their mental health care skills because that means more patients get great mental health care. At UCSF, she developed and taught courses in psychopharmacology for psychiatry residents and in mental health care for primary care residents. In 2026, she joined Stanford to develop an integrated behavioral health program in their community primary care clinics. Emma is continually learning how to be a parent while spending as much time outside as possible.
IRINA (ERA) KRYZHANOVSKAYA, MD
Dr. Irina (Era) Kryzhanovskaya is a clinician-educator, internist, addictionologist, wedding officiant (bc #sidehustle), and HIIT/fitness aficionado. Era works in the outpatient and inpatient world at UCSF to improve holistic care for patients, educate future health professions leaders, and convert as many people to primary care careers as possible. Tweet @EraKryzhMD.
Zoë KOPP, MD
Dr. Zoë Kopp is a primary care physician in UCSF’s Department of General Internal Medicine. She is passionate about decreasing stigma and bias in electronic health record written documentation, recognizing and processing the stress of people work, and walking as much as possible (in the city and in the mountains)!