Jacob Musai, M.D.

Dr. Jacob Moussai is a board certified psychiatrist by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. He is also an assistant clinical professor at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Department of Mental Health. Dr. Moussai has completed his adult psychiatry residency training at Yale School of Medicine with additional training in neurobehavior and geriatric psychiatry. He was recently voted “Top Psychiatrist” in 2010. As a clinician, Dr. Moussai is also involved in research focusing on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. He is also an educator and provides supervision to third and fourth year UCLA medical students, UCLA psychiatry residents, UCLA neurology residents, and Cedars Sinai internal medicine residents. He also performs workers compensation evaluations as a Qualified Medical Examiner (QME) for the State of California.

 

Education:

Yale University, School of Medicine New Haven, CT
Residency: Psychiatry 2006-2008  
UCSD, School of Medicine San Diego, CA
Residency: Psychiatry 2003-2006  
UC Davis, School of Medicine Davis, CA
Medical School (M.D. degree 06/2003) 1999-2003  
University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA
Neuroscience major (B.S. degree 09/97) 1993-1997
Summa Cum Laude		  

 

Research:

West Los Angeles VA Medical Center; Los Angeles, CA
Co-Investigator, PTSD research
Yale University - Schizophrenia Research Clinic; New Haven, CT
Sub-Investigator, clinical trials 2006 to 2008
VA Medical Center - Department of Psychiatry; West Haven, CT
Sub-Investigator, pilot studies and literature review 2006 to 2008
UCSD Department of Psychiatry; San Diego, CA
Independent research, literature review 2006 to 2006
UCSD Medical Center - Neuropsychiatry Unit; San Diego, CA
Sub-Investigator, clinical trials 2005 to 2006
UCLA School of Medicine - Laboratory of NeuroImaging; Los Angeles, CA
Student research volunteer, independent research, 1995 to 1999
Research assistant

 

Honors and Awards:

  • APA Annual Meeting 2008 (Washington DC) - Component Workshop discussant: Does Culture Matter? A Debate on the Underuse and Overuse of Cultural Differences in Psychiatry.
  • APA Annual Meeting 2008 (Washington DC) . Chairperson: .Side Effects of Psychopharmacological Treatment.
  • APA- Astra Zeneca fellow 2007-2009, Research Fellow
  • AMA- Resident Fellow Section, Delegate Representative from State of CT (participated in 10/06 and 10/07 annual meetings)
  • UCSD Department of Psychiatry, Certificate of Postgraduate Medical Study (2004)
  • San Diego County Medical Society, President of Resident Council (2004- 2006)
  • ASCP Workshop on Clinical Trials in Psychopharmacology fellowship (2005 and 2007)

 

Publications:

  1. Mega MS, Dinov ID, Mazziotta JC, Manese M, Thompson PM, Lindshield C, Moussai J, Tran N, Olsen K, Zoumalan CI, Woods RP, Toga AW: Automated brain tissue assessment in the elderly and demented population: construction and validation of a sub-volume probabilistic brain atlas. Neuroimage. 2005 Jul 15;26(4):1009-18.  
  2. Narr KL, Thompson PM, Sharma T, Moussai J, Blanton R, Anvar B, Edris A, Krupp R, Rayman J, Khaledy M, Toga AW: Three-dimensional mapping of temporo-limbic regions and the lateral ventricles in schizophrenia: gender effects. Biol Psychiatry. 2001 Jul 15;50(2):84-97.
  3. Narr K, Thompson P, Sharma T, Moussai J, Zoumalan C, Rayman J, Toga A: Three-dimensional mapping of gyral shape and cortical surface asymmetries in schizophrenia: gender effects. Am J Psychiatry. 2001 Feb;158(2):244-55.
  4. Thompson PM, Mega MS, Woods RP, Zoumalan CI, Lindshield CJ, Blanton RE, Moussai J, Holmes CJ, Cummings JL, Toga AW: Cortical change in Alzheimer's disease detected with a disease-specific population-based brain atlas. Cereb Cortex. 2001 Jan;11(1):1-16.
  5. Narr KL, Thompson PM, Sharma T, Moussai J, Cannestra AF, Toga AW: Mapping morphology of the corpus callosum in schizophrenia. Cereb Cortex. 2000 Jan;10(1):40-9.
  6. Thompson PM, Moussai J, Zohoori S, Goldkorn A, Khan AA, Mega MS, Small GW, Cummings JL, Toga AW: Cortical variability and asymmetry in normal aging and Alzheimer's disease. Cereb Cortex. 1998 Sep;8(6):492-509.
  7. Mega MS, Thompson PM, Cummings JL, Back CL, Xu ML, Zohoori S, Goldkorn A, Moussai J, Fairbanks L, Small GW, Toga AW: Sulcal variability in the Alzheimer's brain: correlations with cognition. Neurology. 1998 Jan;50(1):145-51.
  8. Mega, M.S., Thompson, P.M., Mazziotta, J.C., Moussai, J., Xu, L.Q., Toga, A.W: The Specific Pattern of Sulcal Deformation in the Alzheimer's Brain: Implications for Functional Imaging in Aging and Dementia, Brain.
 

 

Professional Affiliations:

  • American Medical Association
  • American Psychiatric Association
  • California Medical Association
  • Southern California Psychiatric Society