Psychiatry Diversity Leadership in Academic Medicine: Guidelines for Success

Ayana Jordan1, Ruth S Shim1, Carolyn I Rodriguez1

  • 1Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn. (Jordan); Department of Psychiatry, University of California, Davis (Shim); Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif., and Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, Calif. (Rodriguez); Department of Psychiatry, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of California, Los Angeles (Bath); Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, and New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York (Alves-Bradford); Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, and Desert-Pacific Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center, VA San Diego Healthcare Center, San Diego (Eyler); Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard University School of Medicine, Boston (Trinh); Departments of Psychiatry and Anthropology, New York University, New York (Hansen); Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations at Zuckerberg San Francisco General, and UCSF Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, San Francisco (Mangurian).

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