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Park, NIMH Fellow 2004-2006
Sarah Horton, NIMH Fellow 2003-2005
Sarah Pinto, NIMH Fellow 2003-2005
Everett Zhang, NIMH Fellow 2003-2005
Christopher Dole, NIMH Fellow 2002 - 2004
Erica James, NIMH Fellow 2002 - 2004
Dr.. Tomomi Inomata, NIMH Fellow 2001 - 2003
Dr. Doris F.
Chang
is a clinical psychologist who received her degree from the University
of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Chang's clinical and research interests
include ethnic minority mental health, somatization, culture and psychiatric
diagnosis, and the development of socially and culturally responsive
health services. As an NIMH postdoctoral fellow (2000-2002) in the Department
of Social Medicine, Dr. Chang has been collaborating with a local agency
to develop a model for addressing family violence within Asian immigrant
communities. Using a variety of field methods, this research highlights
the importance of understanding clients' experience of violence in the
context of their personal and sociopolitical history, and exploring
the ways in which immigrant status itself may contribute to risk for
family violence. In addition, this research demonstrates that successful
service delivery to Asian immigrant communities depends on collaboration
with community leaders to identify local needs and priorities, and promote
collective responsibility for ending family violence.
Andrew Lakoff
received his Ph.D. in Anthropology (2000) from UC Berkeley, and is currently
an NIMH Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Social Medicine at
Harvard. His areas of interest include the anthropology of biomedicine,
globalization processes, comparative modernities, governmentality, and
the history of the human sciences. His forthcoming book, Pharmaceutical
Reason: Subject and Psychotrope in Buenos Aires describes ethical
and epistemological debates in contemporary psychiatric practice both
within a distinctive epistemic community and across transnational networks.
His current research focuses on anti-depressant drug development, specifically
looking at the placebo effect in clinical trials, intellectual property
and secrecy, and the cultures of multinational pharmaceutical firms.
He will begin an appointment as Assistant Professor of Sociology and
Science Studies at UC San Diego in the Spring 2002.
João Biehl
is assistant professor of Anthropology at Princeton University. He earned
his Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley
(1999), and his Ph.D. in the Study of Religion from the Graduate Theological
Union, Berkeley (1996). His anthropological work is concerned with the
global flows of scientific knowledge and medical technology, and with
their integration into new market strategies, forms of governance and
subjectivity particularly in the context of the AIDS epidemic in Latin
America. As a NIMH post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Social
Medicine, Harvard Medical School (1999-2000), he began new research
on death and dying and the work of the palliative care team at the Massachusetts
General Hospital. He is currently working on two book projects: "Subjectivity
Transformed" (with Byron Good and Arthur Kleinman), and "Vita:
Life in a Dead Language" (with photographer Torben Eskerod).
Joyce Chung, M.D., is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry
at the Department of Psychiatry, Georgetown University Medical School,
in Washington, DC. She received her M.D. from Northwestern University
Medical School in 1984 and completed her internship at Cambridge Hospital
and her psychiatry residency at Massachusetts General Hospital. She
was an NIMH postdoctoral Fellow in Medical Anthropology from 1988-90.
Dr. Chung has been a co-investigator of a NIMH funded mental health
services project (WECare project) on the effectiveness of treatment
for Major Depressive Disorder in low-income women since 1997. She has
also been the PI of a pilot research project funded by NIMH and the
Bayer Institute for Health Care Communication on "Explanatory Models
and Effective Treatment of Depression." In this project she has
been analyzing videotapes of the treatment carried out in the WECare
project in order to understand more about processes of care. She was
at the University of Minnesota Medical School and has been at Georgetown
for the past nine years. She recently helped formulate and was the chief
writer of the American Psychiatric Association Practice Guidelines for
the Treatment of Patients with HIV/AIDS.
Robert Desjarlais received his Ph.D. in anthropology from the University
of California, Los Angeles, in 1990. After participating in the NIHM
post-doctoral fellowship program at Harvard from 1990-1992, he served
as the project coordinator for the collaborative study, World Mental
Health: Priorities and Problems in Low-Income Countries, published in
1995 by Oxford University Press. Since 1994 he has taught anthropology
at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York. His scholarship is
geared primarily to the study, through comprehensive anthropological
methods, of selfhood, emotions, bodiliness, memory, personal hardship,
and illness and healing in particular social worlds in order to develop
integrative ways of thinking about the makings of human subjectivities.
In addition to publishing over 20 scholarly papers, he has authored
two books published by the University of Pennsylvania Press: Body and
Emotion: The Aesthetics of Illness and Healing in the Nepal Himalayas,
and Shelter Blues: Sanity and Selfhood among the Homeless. His current
research project, supported by fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation
and the Howard Foundation, entails a study of the intersecting cultural,
discursive, and sensorial features of life and death among the Yolmo
people of north central Nepal.
Susan M. DiGiacomo became a medical anthropologist first by accident,
and later by design. Toward the end of her doctoral research in Barcelona
on discourses of Catalan nationhood, she was diagnosed with cancer and
went almost directly from the field to a major US teaching and research
hospital for testing, surgery and treatment; she went to the hospital
as an anthropologist, armed with a notebook and the same kinds of theoretical
concerns about the nature of power that had brought her to Barcelona.
Following her recovery, she spent two years (1988-1990) as a postdoctoral
fellow in the Department of Social Medicine. In 1992 and 1993 she was
a visiting professor and researcher in the epidemiology department of
the Institut Municipal d'Investigació Mèdica in Barcelona,
where she studied both epidemiological and medical discourses of cancer
diagnosis and treatment. she also teaches periodically in a master's
degree program in medical anthropology at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili
(Tarragona).
A request to review a manuscript submitted by a Catalan anthropologist
to Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry during her NIMH fellowship opened
up a new dimension of her professional life: translation. Since that
first article, she has published a number of other translations, the
most recent of which is a book, What's Behind the Symptom? On Psychiatric
Observation and Anthropological Understanding, by Àngel Martínez-Hernáez
(Harwood/Gordon and Breach, 2000). It appears as a volume in a medical
anthropology book series - Theory and Practice in Medical Anthropology
and International Health - she has edited since 1995.
Alasdair Donald trained as a physician in Australia before completing
a PhD in anthropology with a specific interest in psychological anthropology
at the University of California, San Diego. After graduation, he completed
training as a psychiatrist at Cambridge Hospital, Harvard Medical School,
and also commenced training in clinical psychoanalysis at the Boston
Psychoanalytic Institute. He then had the privilege of being an NIMH
Fellow at the Department of Social Medicine during which two years he
completed ethnographic study of the impact of managed care upon the
experience and practice of clinical psychiatry and developed an interest
in the sociology of psychiatric knowledge. Currently he is in private
practice and consults to the Department of Psychiatry at San Francisco
General Hospital in San Francisco.
Madelyn Hsiao-Rei Hicks is of mixed Chinese and White descent, born
and raised in a Midwestern farming community. A B.A. in Biology at the
University of Louisville was followed by a B.A. in Zoology at Oxford
University as a Humphrey Scholar. She completed her M.D. at the University
of Louisville School of Medicine in 1989. This was followed by medical
internship and psychiatry residency at Brown University where she was
introduced to the field of cultural psychiatry. From 1993 to 1995 she
was a research fellow in the Department of Social Medicine's N.I.M.H.
Supported Research Training Program in Clinically Relevant Medical and
Psychiatric Anthropology. Participation in Dr. Sue Levkoff's Exploratory
Center on Health Promotion for Ethnic Minority Elders with Dementia
and their Caregivers provided valuable experience on combining ethnography
and quantitative research methods. While a fellow she developed a proposal
to study interactions between partner violence and major depression
in Chinese American women. This Boston-based study was done through
a Young Investigator's Grant from NARSAD while an instructor in the
department from 1995 to 1997, with Dr. Arthur Kleinman as mentor, and
forms the basis of her conference presentation..
Dr. Hicks is currently affiliated with the department while based in
London as a consultant psychiatrist with the Maudsley Hospital and honorary
research worker with the Institute of Psychiatry. In addition to recent
work on helpseeking for depression and suicidality, and perceived causes
of suicide attempts in London South Asian women, she continues to analyze
data from the NARSAD study. The main finding of this study is strong
evidence of a causative role for partner violence in the epidemiology
of major depression in Chinese American women living in the community,
with additional factors being non-partner trauma history, education,
English fluency and cultural style of the current partner relationship.
Sandra Teresa Hyde received her first Master's degree in Public
Health Education in 1988 at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. For the
next three years, Dr. Hyde worked in the Hawaiian islands as a public
health planner in women's reproductive health, and as a consultant in
adolescent health, and mental health services, before embarking on her
doctoral studies. Dr. Hyde received her Ph.D. in Medical Anthropology
from UC Berkeley in December 1999, and her dissertation, "Sex,
Drugs and Karaoke: Making AIDS in Southwest China," was on the
emergence of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in southwest China. Dr. Hyde is currently
an NIMH Postdoctoral Fellow in Social Medicine at Harvard University.
She will be joining the faculty in the Department of Anthropology at
McGill University in Canada in spring 2002. While at Harvard, she is
coordinating the Medical Anthropology seminar, and conducting research
on the medicalization of gender and the culture of biology surrounding
the surgical sex reassignment of intersex infants. Dr. Hyde has also
worked as a consultant for several non-governmental organizations in
China on AIDS prevention and designing social science research protocols
for HIV/AIDS. Her two most recent publications are a chapter in Nancy
Chen's China Urban (2001) titled, "Sex Tourism Practices on the
Periphery: Eroticizing Ethnicity and Pathologizing Sex on the Lancang,"
and, an article in East Asia (2000), titled, "Selling Sex and Sidestepping
the State: Prostitutes, Condoms, and HIV/AIDS Prevention in Southwest
China."
Amaro J. Laria, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist in the Primary
Care Behavioral Health Program at The Cambridge Hospital, where he coordinates
cross-cultural behavioral medicine services, primarily with Spanish-
and Portuguese-speaking patients. He is also an Instructor in Psychology
at the Psychiatry Department, Harvard Medical School, where he's involved
in teaching, supervising and conducting clinical research. His current
research involvement is in the area of medically unexplained physical
symptoms ("somatization") among Latino/Hispanic immigrant
patients in a primary care setting. He was a NIMH Post-Doctoral Research
Fellow with the Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
during 1998-2000. His most recent publications include: "The Professional
Fragmentation of Experience in the Study of Dissociation, Somatization,
and Culture" (Laria, A. & Lewis-Fernandez, R., Journal of Trauma
& Dissociation, in press), and "Political Chaos, Migration,
& Internal Fragmentation: A Case of Atypical (Reactive) Psychosis
in an Eritrean Refugee" (Culture, Medicine & Psychiatry, in
press). Previous research activities include a study of "Dissociative
Experiences among Cuban Spiritist Mediums & Mental Health Patients."
Dr. Laria is also Associate Professor in the Clinical Psychology Programs
at Clark University, where he teaches "Culture & Mental Health,"
and at the University of Massachusetts Boston, where he teaches "Health
Psychology." He's also the Director of the "Mental Health
Initiative" at Central American Relief, a collaborative project
to promote the provision of mental health services in rural areas in
Nicaragua, El Salvador & Honduras.
Roberto Lewis-Fernández is Assistant Professor of Clinical
Psychiatry at Columbia University and Lecturer on Social Medicine at
Harvard University. He received his B.A. from Harvard College in 1979,
a Master's Degree in comparative religion from Harvard Divinity School
in 1982, and his M.D. from Yale Medical School in 1986. He obtained
his psychiatric training at The Cambridge Hospital (1986-90) and completed
a Dupont-Warren psychiatric research fellowship (1990-91) and an NIMH-sponsored
fellowship in clinically applied medical anthropology (1991-93) at Harvard
Medical School. From 1993 to 1995, Dr. Lewis-Fernández worked
for the Puerto Rico Health Department implementing an innovative mental
health consultation-liaison program for rural primary care clinics.
His research focuses on the socio-cultural determinants of illness experience,
symptomatology, help-seeking behavior, and treatment outcome among U.S.
Latinos, particularly Puerto Ricans and Dominicans, diagnosed with anxiety,
depressive, and dissociative disorders. In collaboration with his colleague,
Dr. Peter Guarnaccia, Dr. Lewis-Fernández has helped clarify
the relationship between psychiatric diagnoses and ataque de nervios,
a Latin American popular syndrome. He is also working on defining the
socio-cultural aspects contributing to the elevated treatment dropout
rate found among Latino psychiatric outpatients. Dr. Lewis-Fernández
was on the DSM-IV Cross-Cultural Committee and is currently a member
of the Cultural Psychiatry Committee of the Group for the Advancement
of Psychiatry. He also serves as Editor of the Cases Section of Culture,
Medicine and Psychiatry, which publishes clinical cases illustrating
the impact of culture on the symptoms, course, and outcome of psychiatric
disorders and patients' help-seeking choices.
Cheryl Mattingly is Professor of Anthropology with a joint appointment
in the Department of Occupational Science and the Department of Anthropology
at the University of Southern California. She received her Ph.D. (Anthropology
and Urban Studies) in 1989 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
She was an NIMH research fellow in Clinically Relevant Anthropology
at the Department of Social Medicine, Harvard University, from 1990
- 1992. Her major areas of research and publication have been directed
to developing a narrative framework for the study of rehabilitation
practices in the United States. Her publications include Narrative and
the Cultural Construction of Illness and Healing (2000, University of
California Press), co-edited with Linda Garro; Healing Dramas and Clinical
Plots: The Narrative Structure of Experience (1998, University of Cambridge
Press); Clinical Reasoning in a Therapeutic Practice (1994, F.A. Davis
Press), co-authored with Maureen Fleming. Narrative and Society (University
of Aarhus Press), co-edited with Uffe Jensen, is forthcoming, December
2001. She received the 2000 Victor Turner Prize (Society for Humanistic
Anthropology, American Anthropology Association) for Healing Dramas
and Clinical Plots and the 1999 Polgar Prize (Society for Medical Anthropology,
American Anthropological Association) for the essay "In Search
of the Good: Narrative Reasoning in Clinical Practice," published
in Medical Anthropology Quarterly. Over the past ten years, she has
received a series of large federal grants from several agencies (National
Institutes of Health, Maternal and Child Health, Department of Education)
to conduct ethnographic research among African American families who
have children with chronic illnesses and disabilities. She is currently
working on a book that focuses upon this research among African-Americans
in Chicago and Los Angeles and draws upon narrative to rethink theories
of culture. The working title is Narrative Acts in a Cultural Borderland:
Race, Healing and Literary Anthropology.
Don Seeman is Lecturer at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology
at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He completed his PhD in anthropology
at Harvard in 1997 and was an NIMH postdoctoral fellow in 1997-1998.
Don's current research interests include "useless suffering,"
phenomenology of religious violence and healing, and infectious disease
among Ethiopian immigrants. It sounds eclectic, but if you lived in
Israel you'd understand that it's not. He was married last August, and
lives happily in Jerusalem with his wife Debra.
Karen-Sue Taussig is currently a lecturer in Social Studies and
the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University. She
received the Ph.D. in social-cultural anthropology from the Johns Hopkins
University in 1997. From 1997-1999 she was an NIMH post-doctoral fellow
in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. During
the 2000-2001 academic year she organized, with Allan Brandt and Dan
Callahan, a year-long university-wide faculty seminar on genetics and
ethics in the Division of Medical Ethics, Harvard Medical School. Dr.
Taussig's work has focused on the emergence, circulation, and meaning
of new genetic knowledge in the United States and Europe. Her current
project takes as its premise that we in the United States are in the
midst of a profound world-view shift involving genetic causality and
human affliction. Taussig, arguing that such a shift cannot just happen
but must be attached to institutional, political, and economic changes,
is examining the diverse range of sites in which a wide array of individuals
are engaged in teaching, learning, and experiencing genetics.
Dr. Taussig's publications include "Calvinism and Chromosomes:
Religion, the Geographical Imaginary, and Medical Genetics in the Netherlands"
in Science as Culture (1997), "AIDS, Knowledge, and Discrimination
in the Inner City: An Anthropological Analysis of Experiences of Injection
Drug Users" (with E. Martin, L. Oaks, and A. van der Straten),
in Cyborgs and Citadels: Anthropological Interventions into Techno-Humanism,
G. Downy, J. Dumit eds. (1997), and the forthcoming book, Just Be Ordinary:
Normalizing the Future through Genetic Research and Practice (University
of California Press).
Norma C. Ware is a medical anthropologist and Associate Professor
in the Departments of Psychiatry and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical
School. She divides her time principally between independent research
activities and mentoring junior mental health services researchers interested
in medical anthropology and qualitative methods. Dr. Ware's research
on the social course of chronic illness began in 1988, when, as an NIMH
postdoctoral fellow, she conducted an interview study of social influences
on illness experience in chronic fatigue syndrome under the tutelage
of Arthur Kleinman. This work led to a longitudinal study entitled "Social
Course of CFS," supported by the National Institute for Allergy
and Infectious Diseases, and more recently to a study of the "Social
Course of Adherence to HAART in Active Illegal Drug Users with HIV/AIDS,"
funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Dr. Ware's independent
research on mental health services began with an NIMH-supported project
to develop a measure of continuity of care using data from an ethnographic
study. Additional funding provided an opportunity to examine the cultural
relevance of the measure for ethnic minorities living in the continental
United States. The measure has been translated and adapted for exclusively
Spanish speaking populations. It is about to be made available for public
use.
These two lines of research are presently converging in a project designed
to trace the social course of recovery from schizophrenia. Since 1999,
Dr. Ware has been a member of the NIMH Services Research Review Committee.
She is involved in active collaborations with researchers at the Center
for Mental Health Services Research at Rutgers University, the Center
for Mental Health Services Research at the University of Maryland, the
Latino Research Program Project at the University of Puerto Rico, the
Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation at Boston University, and the
Center for the Study of Issues in Public Mental Health at the Nathan
S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research.
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