EDI Events

In the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, we’re working to build our knowledge and understanding of topics and issues related to equity, diversity and inclusion. Below you’ll find information about some of the talks we’ve hosted, featuring Grand Rounds guests and other invited experts.

Albert Alden Memorial Grand Rounds: Addressing Implicit Bias to Enhance the Outcomes of our Clinical Encounters

Cristina Gonzalez

Cristina Gonzalez, MD, MEd
Professor of Medicine and Population Health
Grossman School of Medicine
New York University

January 11, 2024

James Carter, Sr. Memorial Grand Rounds – From Psychoanalytic Discourse to the Social Ecological Model: A Justice Framework for Healing from Racial Trauma

Denese Shervington

Denese Shervington, MD, MPH
Professor and Chairperson
College of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine
Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science

February 1, 2024

Increasing Inclusive Practices in Healthcare

Richard Orbe-Austin

Richard Orbé-Austin, PhD
Partner/Co-Founder
Dynamic Transitions Psychological Consulting, LLP

February 8, 2024

The BEST Boston Model for Decriminalizing Mental Illness

David Henderson

David Henderson, MD
Professor and Chair
Department of Psychiatry

Psychiatry Chief
Boston Medical Center

March 28, 2024

Jubilee: A Paradigm Shift to Land-Based Clinical Practice

Nora Dennis

Nora Dennis, MD, MSPH, DFAPA
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Duke University School of Medicine

CEO & Founder
Jubilee Healing Farm, Hillsborough, NC

April 25, 2024

Treatment Considerations of the Impact of Discrimination and Structural Racism on the Identity Development of Black Youth and Anti-Racism Program Development

Aaron Reliford

Aaron Reliford, MD
Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs; Vice Chair for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; Clinical Associate Professor
NYU Langone Health Health, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

May 23, 2024

Grand Rounds – Belonging Without Fitting In: Racial Literacy for Resolving Stressful and Traumatic Racial Encounters

Howard Stevenson

Howard Stevenson, PhD
Constance C. Clayton Professor of Urban Education and Africana Studies
Graduate School of Education
University of Pennsylvania

January 12, 2023

James Carter, Sr. Memorial Grand Rounds – Diversity, Inclusion and Equity: Our Collective Responsibility

Deborah Deas

Deborah Deas, MD, MPH
Vice Chancellor, Health Sciences
Professor of Psychiatry
Pam and Mark Rubin Dean School of Medicine
University of California, Riverside

February 2, 2023

For Youth and By Youth: Creating Digital Interventions for Mental Health and Access to Care

Lisa Fortuna

Lisa Fortuna, MD, MPH, MDiv
Professor and Vice Chair
Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
University of California, San Francisco

February 23, 2023
 

Clinical and Research Perspectives on Identifying and Reducing Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Behavioral Health Treatment

Benjamin Le Cook and Caryn Rodgers

Benjamin Lê  Cook, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor
Department of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School

Director, Health Equity Research Lab
Director of Research, Department of Psychiatry 
Cambridge Health Alliance

Caryn R.R. Rodgers, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Pediatrics & Department of Psychiatry
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Pediatric Psychologist
The Children’s Hospital at Montefiore

March 2, 2023

EDI Grant Report: Implementation Science for Equity-Related Mental Health Research

Sarah Wilson

Sarah Wilson, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences & Department of Population Health Sciences
Duke University School of Medicine

March 23, 2023

Ewald Busse Memorial Lecture – Psychosocial Determinants of Health: From Racism to Wisdom

Dilip Jeste

Dilip Jeste, MD
Director, Sam and Rose Stein Institute for Research on Aging
Distinguished Professor, Psychiatry and Neurosciences
Senior Associate Dean, Healthy Aging and Senior Care
University of California San Diego

EDI Grant Report – SPARCS of Change: Culturally Tailoring Trauma-Informed Treatments

Ernestine Briggs-King

Ernestine Briggs-King, PhD
Associate Professor 
Director of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion for Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Duke University School of Medicine

April 20, 2023

Celebrate Diversity Month – Integrating Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: How to Change a Culture

Alyson Myers

Alyson Myers, MD
Associate Chair of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Department of Medicine
Einstein Montefiore

Associate Professor
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

April 27, 2023

Inter- and Intrapersonal Cultural Humility: Growing within Ourselves and Our Relationships

Shannon K. Ashford

Shannon K. Ashford, MEd
Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Duke Office for Institutional Equity

June 22, 2023

The Harmful Impact of Microaggressions

Jacinta V. White

Jacinta V. White
CEO, Lead Facilitator & Coach
Deeper Dive Consulting

September 13, 2023

Twice as Hard: The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians from the Civil War to the 21st Century

Jasmine Brown and Ernestine Briggs-King

Jasmine Brown, BA, M.Phil., MD Candidate
Author and Medical Student
Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania

Ernestine Briggs-King, PhD
Associate Professor 
Director of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion for Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Duke University School of Medicine

November 16, 2023

From Process to Practice: Fostering Cultural Humility in our Environment

Shannon K. Ashford

Shannon K. Ashford, MEd
Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Duke Office for Institutional Equity

December 5, 2023

Grand Rounds in Honor of Reverend Dr. James Brown – Alzheimer’s Disease Genetics: The Need for Diversity Equity and Inclusion

Goldie Byrd

Goldie Byrd, PhD
Professor and Director
Maya Angelou Center for Health Equity
Wake Forest University School of Medicine

December 7, 2023

James H. Carter, Sr. Memorial Lecture: Social (In)Justice and Mental Health

Ruth Shim

Ruth Shim, MD, MPH
Luke & Grace Kim Professor in Cultural Psychiatry
Associate Dean of Diverse and Inclusive Education
University of California, Davis School of Medicine
UC Davis Health

February 3, 2022

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The Bullet Related Injury Clinic: Cutting Without a Knife

LJ Punch

LJ Punch, MD
Executive Director
The T
St. Louis, MO

February 10, 2022

Centering Equity in Trauma-Informed Community Work

Karinda Roebuck, Katelyn Donisch, Angela M. Tunno

Karinda Roebuck, MSN, CNM
Executive Director
Chatham Organizing for Racial Equity (CORE)
Chatham County, NC

Katelyn Donisch, PhD, MSPH
Director, Clinical Training and Evaluation
Little Otter, Inc.

Angela M. Tunno, PhD, MS
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Duke University School of Medicine

March 17, 2022

Syndemic and Community Engaged Approaches to Promoting Latinx Health Equity

Rosa Gonzalez-Guarda

Rosa Gonzalez-Guarda, PhD
Associate Professor 
Dorothy L. Powell Term Chair of Nursing
Duke University School of Nursing

March 31, 2022

Celebrate Diversity Month – Liberation Psychology: Healing Wounds of Racism

Thema Bryant-Davis

Thema Bryant-Davis, PhD, MDiv
Professor, Graduate School of Education & Psychology
Director of Culture and Trauma Research Lab
Pepperdine University

April 21, 2022

Systems and Individuals: Deconstructing the Social Determinants of (Mental) Health

Danielle Hairston

Danielle Hairston, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry
Director, Psychiatry Residency Program
Howard University College of Medicine and Hospital

May 12, 2022

Cultural Considerations When Working with the Latinx Community

Molly Hayes & Juan Prandoni

Molly Hayes, Med, LCMHCS
Director, Clinical Enhancement Services
El Futuro

Juan Prandoni, PhD, HSP
Associate Training Director
El Futuro

With discussion led by Andrea Diaz Stransky, MD, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine

October 4, 2022

TK Li Lecture – Inequities in Addiction Treatment for Racial and Ethnic Minoritized Populations: How to Move Forward

Ayana Jordan

Ayana Jordan, MD, PhD
Barbara Wilson Associate Professor of Psychiatry Department of Psychiatry
NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Assistant Professor Adjunct of Psychiatry
Yale School of Medicine

November 10, 2022

James H. Carter, Jr. Memorial Lecture: Physician Leadership during Times of Crisis and Transition

Patrice Harris

Patrice Harris, MD, MA, FAPA
Psychiatrist
Immediate Past President
American Medical Association (AMA)

January 28, 2021

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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Speaker Series: The CHEER Collaborative

DEI Speaker Series - CHEER Collaborative - Headshots of three speakers
  • Language as Racial Stress: Building Interactions that Promote Wellness (February 1, 2021)
  • Transforming Deficit Language to Highlight Strengths and Assets (March 11, 2021) 
  • Reframing Language for Equity and Empowerment (March 25, 2021)

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Racial Blackness beyond Interpersonal Definitions and Perceptions

Patrice Douglass

Patrice Douglass, PhD
Assistant Professor
Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies
Duke University School of Medicine

February 11, 2021

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Towards an Evidence Base for Interventions to Decrease Stress in Immigrants and Refugees

Gabriela Nagy

Gabriela Nagy, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Duke University School of Medicine

April 8, 2021

The Path Towards Inclusive Excellence: Exploring & Navigating Implicit Bias (Grand Rounds)

Judy Seidenstein

Judy Seidenstein
Associate Dean of Equity, Diversity & Inclusion at Duke University School of Medicine

July 15, 2021

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Pursuing, Teaching, and Adopting Health Equity as a Personal Value

Viviana Martinez-Bianchi

Viviana Martinez-Bianchi, MD, FAAFP
Associate Professor and Director for Health Equity
Department of Family Medicine & Community Health
Duke University School of Medicine

October 7, 2021

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Speaker Series:
Sierra Carter, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Georgia State University

Sierra Carter
  • Building A Foundation for Continued Cultural Humility (October 25, 2021)
  • Raising Cultural Awareness and Critical Cultural Consciousness (November 1, 2021)
  • From Perspective to Collective Action: Leveraging Cultural Awareness to Impact Change (December 13, 2021)

LGBTQ-Affirmative Mental Health Care: From Theory to Trials to Community Implementation and Global Dissemination

John Pachankis

John Pachankis, PhD
Susan Dwight Bliss Associate Professor
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Yale School of Public Health

October 28, 2021

Shifting Pain: Black Men, Masculinities, and Behavioral Health in Times of Uncertainty

Wizdom Powell

Wizdom Powell, PhD
Director of the Health Disparities Institute and Associate Professor of Psychiatry
UConn Health

December 9, 2021