SoleMD

Jon Sole, MD

Chief, Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Service

I'm a consultation-liaison psychiatrist and clinical leader. My work spans bedside care, hospital systems, education, neuroscience, and responsible clinical AI.

Jon Sole, MD

What I do

Consultation-liaison psychiatry is the center of my work: I care for people whose medical illness and mental health can't be separated, at the bedside on medical and surgical wards, in critical care, on the burn service, and after traumatic brain injury.

That bedside work opens outward. I lead a consultation-liaison service across a county hospital enterprise, teach residents and students, improve how the hospital handles delirium, withdrawal, and patient safety, and study how generative AI is starting to shape clinical psychiatry, grounded in a neuroscience training that began at the synapse.

The consultation path

One line of work, from the bedside to the brain.

  1. A consultation-liaison psychiatrist sitting at eye level beside an older hospitalized patient, leaning in with unhurried attention

    01

    Clinical care

    Psychiatry where medicine is the reason for admission.

    I deliver consultation-liaison psychiatry across adult and pediatric medical-surgical, critical care, burn, and traumatic brain injury settings: diagnostic formulation, bedside psychotherapy, psychopharmacology, and shared decisions made alongside the primary team.

    Examples

    • Adult & pediatric med-surg
    • Critical care
    • Burn
    • Traumatic brain injury
  2. A clinical team gathered around a large sheet mapping a service-improvement pathway

    02

    Leadership and process improvement

    Directing a consultation-liaison service across a 1,200+ bed county enterprise.

    As Chief, I oversee clinical operations and service development, and lead quality work where psychiatry meets hospital flow: sitter utilization, delirium prevention, and an inpatient alcohol-withdrawal protocol built to be safer and shorter.

    Examples

    • Clinical operations
    • Sitter utilization
    • Delirium taskforce
    • Alcohol withdrawal
  3. A psychiatrist teaching at a whiteboard with a brain and synapse sketch while two residents take notes

    03

    Education and mentorship

    Teaching residents at the bedside and running in-services across the care team.

    I teach residents on the wards and lead in-services for nurses, therapy services, and the wider care team, translating consultation-liaison psychiatry for the people who use it. That builds on two terms as chief resident in Stanford's psychiatry residency and the year-round inpatient didactic series I ran there.

    Examples

    • Bedside resident teaching
    • Nurse and therapy in-services
    • Interdisciplinary education
    • Stanford chief resident, two terms
  4. A psychiatrist at a desk studying a monitor that shows a calm schematic brain network, a notebook and printed pages beside it

    04

    AI in clinical care

    Exploring where AI belongs in clinical care and clinical education, responsibly.

    I explore how AI can support clinical work and how it can teach, and I study its risks up close: building the clinical phenotype of AI-associated psychosis from case reports, benchmarks, and safety materials, with a formulation model that keeps psychiatry, not the tool, at the center.

    Examples

    • AI in clinical care
    • AI in clinical education
    • AI-associated psychosis
    • Responsible clinical AI
  5. An anatomical brain model beside an open notebook with a hand-drawn synapse showing vesicles, transmitter, and receptors

    05

    Neuroscience foundation

    A clinical model built up from the synapse.

    My training began in cellular and molecular neuroscience, characterizing how sorting nexin 27 regulates trafficking of AMPA receptors, the machinery of synaptic strength. Those same receptors and transporters define the neurotransmitter systems psychopharmacology acts on, and it set a way of thinking, from the molecule up, that still shapes how I read a bedside presentation.

    Examples

    • Sorting nexin 27
    • AMPA-receptor trafficking
    • Neurotransmitter systems
    • Psychopharmacology

Training

The foundation beneath it

  1. Johns Hopkins University

    Bachelor of Arts, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience

    2013

  2. Johns Hopkins University

    Master of Science, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience

    2013

  3. Stanford University School of Medicine

    Doctor of Medicine

    2020

  4. Stanford Health Care

    Psychiatry Residency, Chief Resident (two terms)

    2020–2024

  5. Stanford Health Care

    Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Fellowship

    2024–2025

  6. Santa Clara Valley Medical Center

    Chief, Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Service

    Now

A consultation-liaison psychiatrist's hospital office at a quiet moment: a desk with an open notebook, a brain model, a lit lamp and stacked papers, a white coat on the wall, and the hospital campus through the window

The other half of the job

Chief of the consult service by day. Building clinical AI by night. Both run on the same curiosity: the cases worth teaching become evidence reviews, illustrated lectures, and the tools to teach them.

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The hospital campus seen from its front courtyard in morning light: the building that holds every scene above, a walking path curving to the entrance between trees and benches