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Lisa has also had members of her immediate family go through similar struggles, but she cites her experience volunteering at the psychiatric ward of San Francisco General Hospital almost 20 years ago, as integral in illustrating the weaknesses in the mental health status quo:

"I saw tiny children waiting for psychiatric care in cramped, poorly lit waiting rooms, often sitting next to adults in terrible distress."

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Her ambition ever since has been to establish a more open and family-friendly environment for those seeking mental healthcare, and the Nancy Friend Pritzker Psychiatry Building's Child, Teen and Family Center will serve as the fruit of that aspiration.

Matthew State is UCSF's chair and professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, and he praised the Pritzkers' donation as having no strings attached, allowing them to design and build the ideal psychiatric treatment facility more or less from the ground up, allowing for a focus on "patients and families."

The Nancy Friend Pritzker Psychiatry Building at UCSF is set to open sometime in the fall of this year.