Emily Jones Willow MD

Summary

• Emily Willow, MD (formerly Emily Williams, MD) is a board certified psychiatrist, researcher, and educator based in San Francisco, California. She completed her psychiatry residency at the University of California, San Francisco, from 2014 to 2018, after obtaining her medical degree from the Medical University of South Carolina in 2013 and completing an intern year. She has contributed to the field through publications, including a study on MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for anxiety in life-threatening illnesses, published in Scientific Report. She is an ardent advocate for psychedelic medicine and has worked on multiple clinical trials investigating psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy – including both MDMA and psilocybin. She is a member of the clinical research team for the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) at the San Francisco Insight and Integration Center. Additionally, Emily has a private practice in San Francisco, CA and is an attending psychiatrist at the University of California, San Francisco and Zuckerberg SF General Hospital in Psychiatric Emergency Services. She holds multiple mentorship and teaching roles including at the California Institute of Integral Studies in the Center for Psychedelic Therapies and Research and the School of Consciousness and Transformation.