Guests:

Dr. Gordon Clark is the Founding President of the American Association for Community Psychiatry, and worked to develop guidelines for psychiatrists practicing in various settings, including CMHCs, state hospitals, state offices of mental health, staff model HMOs, and organized systems of care. He is also a Past President of the American Association for Psychiatric Administration & Leadership. Dr. Clark has a BA in English from Yale University and a Master of Divinity degree from the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, CA. He received his MD degree from George Washington University Medical School, where he received the Benjamin Manchester Award. He did his internship, residency, and fellowship at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, and was also a Falk Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He is a diplomate of the National Board of Medical Examiners, the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, the American Board of Medical Management, and the American College of Physician Executives. He is certified both in administrative psychiatry by the American Psychiatric Association and as a physician executive by the Certifying Commission in Medical Management.

Dr. Altha Jeanne Stewart is the Senior Associate Dean for Community Health Engagement, and Director of the Center for Youth Advocacy and Well-Being, and Director of the Division of Public and Community Psychiatry at University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC). In her role as Senior Associate Dean for Community Health Engagement, she serves as PI/co-PI overseeing grants funded by HHS (SAMHSA, NIH, CDC and OMH), DOJ (OJJDP), Robert Wood Johnson and Annie E. Casey Foundations, local philanthropy, and the state of Tennessee totaling over $10 million in annual funding. She is also responsible for developing services related to outreach efforts in critical health areas facing the local community, including primary care and mental health service access, integrated health/behavioral health, chronic medical conditions (diabetes, hypertension and cancer), and COVID-19 identified health disparities. As a native Memphian and longstanding leader in Community Engagement, she has established working relationships with community organizations serving children and families, and strong ties with community health, behavioral health, and social and human service providers across the county to assist with referrals for needed services.

Hosts:

Rob Gadomski, DO is the Deputy Medical Director of Psychiatric Services at Project Renewal, Inc and a graduate of the Columbia Public Psychiatry Fellowship. He works primarily with homeless and marginalized individuals in the New York City area. He went to the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine for medical school and completed his psychiatry residency training at Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia before moving to NYC, where he gathered an interest in working with homeless populations and individuals interacting with the criminal legal system.

Angela Liu, MD is a fourth-year psychiatry resident and Chief Resident of Medical Education at Northwell Health - Zucker Hillside Hospital. After graduating residency, she will be joining the Columbia Public Psychiatry Fellowship.

Social media content creator:

Vishnu Ghantasala

Editor:

Daniel Ernesto Carvallo Ruiz

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Guest:

Dr. Thida Thant is a consultation-liaison psychiatrist and associate professor in the University of Colorado Department of Psychiatry where she is the director of the CL psychiatry service, the Psychiatric Consultation for the Medically Complex clinic, the Easy Consultation psychiatry access program and Program Director of the CL Psychiatry Fellowship. She completed undergrad at the University of Texas at Austin, attended medical school at the University of Texas Medical School in Houston and completed her general adult psychiatry residency and CL fellowship at the University of Colorado. Her academic interests include marijuana and its impact on psychiatric practice, cannabis in medical education and comprehensivepsychiatric care for medically and neurologically complex patients. She has written about cannabis and psychiatric care in books such as Marijuana and Mental Health, Cannabis in Medicine and Cannabis in Psychiatric Practice and has published an AAMC MedEdPortal curriculum entitled "What You Need to Know About Cannabis: An Evidence-Based Crash Course for Mental Health Trainees."

Host:

Anish Dhamija, MD, MS is Board-Certified in both Psychiatry and Family Medicine, completing residency training at UC San Diego in 2022. He attended the Public Psychiatry Fellowship at Columbia University from 2022-2023 and also served as Clinical Director of the Crisis Team and 988 Headquarters in Westchester County, New York. His current position is as the Director of Behavioral Health at an FQHC by the border of San Diego and Mexico, where he works in an integrated care setting closely with primary care. He lives in San Diego with his wife and young child.

Editor:

Daniel Ernesto Carvallo Ruiz comes from Caracas, Venezuela, where he went to Medical School at “Universidad Central de Venezuela - Escuela José María Vargas”. This is where he learned how to truly help disadvantaged and marginalized populations as an MD.

With this passion in mind, he was fortunate enough to work as a Research Assistant at Columbia University Department of Psychiatry, and to become a Member in Training of the American Association for Community Psychiatry (AACP), as well as one of the audio editors of their magnificent podcast - The Community Psychiatry Podcast!

He is currently a Psychiatry Resident PGY-1 at BronxCare Health System - Mount Sinai, a Residency Program that focuses on delivering individualized mental health support to some of the most underserved and underprivileged populations in the country, while receiving the best and most supportive, academic and comprehensive training as a Psychiatry Resident.

After Residency, he wishes to apply everything that he has learned in this profoundly amazing program and continue being an advocate for mental health, serving marginalized, underserved and disadvantaged communities as a Leader in the fields of Adult Psychiatry, Forensic Psychiatry and Public Psychiatry.

Social Media Content Creator:

Pooja Jaiswal

Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the hosts and guest speakers and are not representative of their employers or affiliated organizations.

Created by the American Association for Community Psychiatry (AACP).

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