Sociocultural Issues in Psychiatry
A Casebook and Curriculum
Edited by Nhi-Ha T. Trinh and Justin A. Chen
Author Information
Nhi-Ha Trinh, MD, MPH, serves as the Director for the MGH Department of Psychiatry Center for Diversity as well as the Director of Multicultural Studies and the Director of Clinical Services at the MGH Depression Clinical and Research Program. As Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Associate Director, HMS Holmes Society, she is committed to medical student and psychiatry resident education and mentorship. Her academic work focuses on Sociocultural issues in psychiatry and she shares her passion for this topic as course Co-Director of the MGH/McLean Residency Sociocultural Curriculum. Dr. Trinh earned her medical degree at the University of California, San Francisco, and her Master of Public Health at the University of California at Berkeley, specializing in Epidemiology. She completed residency training in Adult Psychiatry at the Mass General/McLean Adult Psychiatry Training Program and a fellowship in Geriatric Psychiatry at McLean Hospital.
Justin A. Chen, MD, MPH, is Medical Director of Ambulatory Psychiatry and Co-Director of Primary Care Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital. His interests include cross-cultural psychiatry, stigma, racial/ethnic disparities in mental health service utilization, and medical education. He has regularly chaired symposia related to these topics at annual meetings of the American Psychiatric Association and the Society for the Study of Psychiatry and Culture. He is dedicated to teaching and mentorship, serving as Associate Director of Medical Student Education in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, as a Training Mentor and Co-Director of the longitudinal Sociocultural Psychiatry curriculum for MGH/McLean psychiatry residents, and as an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School. As Executive Director and Co-Founder of the MGH Center for Cross-Cultural Student Emotional Wellness, a nonprofit consortium of clinicians, educators and researchers, he delivers talks and trainings for families, clinicians, and educators throughout the United States on promoting the emotional health and psychological resilience of diverse student populations. Dr. Chen received his undergraduate and medical degrees from Yale University. He completed his residency in adult psychiatry at MGH/McLean followed by a Master of Public Health degree in Clinical Effectiveness at the Harvard-T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a Dupont-Warren Research Fellowship focused on improving engagement of depressed Chinese immigrants into mental health care at South Cove Community Health Center.
Contributors:
Gowri G. Aragam, MD
Resident, Adult Psychiatry
Adult Psychiatry Residency Training Program
Massachusetts General Hospital/ McLean Hospital (MGH/McLean)
Boston, Massachusetts
Tony B. Benning, MBChB, MSC, PGDIP, MRCPsych (UK), FRCPC,PhD
Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry
Department of Medicine
University of British Columbia
Consultant Psychiatrist
Maple Ridge Mental Health Center and
Ridge Meadows Hospital
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Justin A. Chen, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School
Medical Director, Ambulatory Psychiatry Services
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts
Chun-Yi Joey Cheung, BS
Research Coordinator
Depression Clinical and Research Program
Department of Psychiatry
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts
Christine Crawford, MD, MPH Fellow
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Department of Psychiatry
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts
Andrew Cruz, MD
Resident, Adult Psychiatry
Adult Psychiatry Residency Training Program
Massachusetts General Hospital/ McLean Hospital (MGH/McLean)
Boston, Massachusetts
Jiaying Ding, MDiv
Graduate Student
Harvard Divinity School
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Erin C. Dunn, ScD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School
Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit
Center for Genomic Medicine
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts
Anne Emmerich, MD
Instructor of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School
Department of Psychiatry
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts
Andrea S. Heberlein, PhD
Senior Lecturer
Boston College
Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
Esther Howe, BA
Program Coordinator
Depression Clinical and Research Program
Department of Psychiatry
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts
Josepha A. Immanuel, MD
Clinical Faculty
Baylor College of Medicine
Child, Adolescent and Adult Psychiatrist
Legacy Community Health
Houston, Texas
David Shumway Jones, MD, PhD
A. Bernard Ackerman Professor of the Culture of Medicine
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Maya Nauphal, BA
Research Coordinator
Depression Clinical and Research Program
Department of Psychiatry
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts
Kristen Nishimi, MPH
PhD Candidate
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit
Center for Genomic Medicine
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts
Siobhan M. O'Neill, MD
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychiatry
Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts
Michaela Owusu, MD, MSc
Fellow, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Department of Psychiatry
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts
Christopher M. Palmer, MD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School
Director, Department of Postgraduate and Continuing Education
McLean Hospital
Belmont, Massachusetts
Ranna Parekh, MD, MPH
Deputy Medical Director
Director, Diversity and Health Equity
American Psychiatric Association
Washington, DC
Maria C. Prom, MD
Resident, Adult Psychiatry
Adult Psychiatry Residency Training Program
Massachusetts General Hospital/ McLean Hospital (MGH/McLean)
Boston, Massachusetts
Judith Puckett, MD
Resident, Adult Psychiatry
Adult Psychiatry Residency Training Program
Massachusetts General Hospital/ McLean Hospital (MGH/McLean)
Boston, Massachusetts
Kimberly L. Reynolds, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Pediatric Hospitalist
Holtz Children's Hospital at Jackson
Memorial Medical Center
Miami, Florida
Kira Knight Rodriguez, MD, MS
Association of University Centers on Disabilities (AUCD)
Diversity Fellow, Mailman Center for Child Development
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Miami, Florida
Loucresie Rupert, MD
Medical Director of Psychiatry
Winona Health
Adult, Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist
Insightful Consultant, LLC
Winona, Minnesota
Lisa Sangermano, BA
Research Coordinator
Depression Clinical and Research Program
Department of Psychiatry
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts
Priya Sehgal, MD, MA
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellow
Cambridge Health Alliance
Harvard Medical School
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Maya Son,MD
Resident, Adult Psychiatry
Adult Psychiatry Residency Training Program
Massachusetts General Hospital/ McLean Hospital (MGR/McLean)
Boston, Massachusetts
Leslie Tarver, MD, MPH
Resident, Adult Psychiatry
Adult Psychiatry Residency Training Program
Massachusetts General Hospital/ McLean Hospital (MGR/McLean)
Boston, Massachusetts
Julianne Torrence, LICSW
Director
Department of Performance and Quality Improvement
Connecticut Junior Republic
Litchfield, Connecticut
Nhi-Ha T. Trinh, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School
Director, Psychiatry Center for Diversity
Director of Multicultural Studies and of Clinical Services
Depression Clinical and Research Program
Department of Psychiatry
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts
Alexander C. Tsai, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School
Department of Psychiatry
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts