The Muses Program for Minoritized Youth is led by UCSF faculty Dr. Chase T.M. Anderson. They are supported by Dr. Brittany Bryant, Dr. Jennifer Ly, Brady Hanshaw, and our wonderful trainees. Together, they bring decades of expertise to the medical, psychological, and therapeutic management of minoritized young people with stigma-related mental health disorders.
Current Leadership in Muses
Chase T. M. Anderson, MD, MS
Medical Director
Dr. Chase T. M. Anderson (but just call him Chase) - (he/they) - is currently a child and adolescent psychiatrist at The University of California, San Francisco, and graduated from adult psychiatry residency at The Massachusetts General Hospital/McLean Hospital and child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at UCSF. He completed his undergraduate education in Chemistry at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his master's in Biological Engineering at MIT as well, and is a graduate of The Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine.
As a Black, queer physician who lives with a history of depression, anxiety, and two suicide attempts when he was younger due to discrimination and minority stress, he is passionate about helping children, adolescents, and young adults have an easier path to healing and empowerement. Their writing has appeared in NPR, Scientific American, WonderMind, STAT News, Nature Mental Health, The New England Journal of Medicine, and other news and journal outlets. His work centers the impact of minority stress on the mental health of minoritized youth, destigmatizing mental illness, and becoming our authentic selves through embracing all facets of our identities.
In their free time, he enjoys going for long walks, doing queer things, listening to K-pop, reading fantasy books, playing soccer, writing, planning dinners with friends, and dreaming of how we can better the world together.
Brittany Bryant, DSW, LCSW
Group Leader
Dr. Brittany Bryant, DSW, LISW-CP (she/her/hers) is a clinician and researcher at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Bryant’s most recent grant funding is focused on addressing the impact of discrimination on substance use among Black Justice-Involved Youth. Dr. Bryant is a Black woman that has personally experienced and witnessed the impact of discrimination on mental health.
Dr. Bryant’s experience has fueled her passion to serve minoritized adolescents and families in improving mental health and reducing substance use, while promoting ethnic and gender pride.
Advocate of anti-racism, mom of 4 magical beings, and a conductor of Black Girl Magic. In her free time she enjoys watching scary movies, trying new cuisines from other cultures, and learning about history.
Jennifer Ly, Ph.D.
Individual Psychologist
Dr. Jennifer Ly, PhD (she/her/hers) is an Associate Clinical Professor and psychologist with extensive training and experience in screening, evaluating, and caring for children and adolescents with complex trauma, neurodevelopmental delays, learning differences, and behavioral or emotional difficulties.
Dr. Ly is Chinese/Vietnamese and a second-generation immigrant. Her family fled the Vietnam War as refugees, and this led to her passion for supporting youth and families who have experienced complex trauma.
In her free time, she enjoys cooking, hiking, exploring, and live music.
Brady D. Hanshaw
Research Fellow
Brady Hanshaw (he/him) is pursuing his M.D. at Harvard Medical School. Brady is passionate about alleviating health inequities among LGBTQ+ communities through advocacy and community-driven research. He has a firm commitment to prioritize marginalized patient populations and systemically confront health inequities as a physician.
Brady graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University as a Robertson Scholar. Prior to graduate school, Brady was a Co-Investigator in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the UNC School of Medicine, helping implement technological and clinical interventions to improve HIV prevention and treatment outcomes among LGBTQ+ minority youth. His current work includes researching minority stress and mental health inequities among LGBTQ+ youth within the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at UCSF, alongside work with Fenway Health and Harvard Medical School.
In his free time, Brady loves backpacking in the mountains, listening to Chappell Roan, dancing through Brat summer, watching sci-fi movies, and eating Mexican food in Dolores park.