Authors

Ms Hawkins is a third-year medical student at Baylor College of Medicine. She has an interest in both academic psychiatry and child and adolescent psychiatry.

Wilsa M.S. Charles Malveaux, MD, MA, FAPA

Dr Wilsa Charles Malveaux is a sports psychiatrist in Los Angeles, California, and CEO of WCM Sports Psych. She is an advocate and educator on the intersection of mental health, sports, and racial and social justice. Dr Charles Malveaux lends her expertise as a psychiatric consultant to multiple national sport-related agencies, professional sports teams, and organizations. She served for over 4 years as the Western Regional Trustee (region 4) on the Board of Black Psychiatrists of America. Dr Charles Malveaux now serves on the Board of Directors for the American Board of Sports and Performance Psychiatry (ABSPP), as well as on advisory boards for organizations serving the community.

Dr Oldak is a consultation-liaison psychiatry fellow at Brigham and Women’s Hospital / Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA.

Dr El-Shammaa is a psychiatry-trained addiction medicine fellow at Hackensack Meridian Jersey Shore University Medical Center.

Sam A. Kashani, MD

Dr Kashani is a board-certified sleep medicine physician who practices in Santa Monica, Porter Ranch, and Santa Clarita. He is currently president of the California Sleep Society and is an assistant clinical professor of medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

Dr Nyer is a clinical psychologist at the Depression Clinical and Research Program at Massachusetts General Hospital and an assistant professor of psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.

Dr Spada is an assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh. She is an associate program director for the psychiatry residency program at UPMC. She is also codirector of the residency program’s Academic Administrator, Clinician Educator Track and codirector of the Women’s Mental Health and Reproductive Psychiatry Area of Concentration.

Dr Kruse is a forensic child and adolescent psychiatrist, and a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Michigan.

Dr Khan is an associate clinical professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine and serves as a staff psychiatrist at VA Connecticut Healthcare System.

Dr Penberthy is the Chester F. Carlson Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences in the Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences. She is also the associate director of the UVA Health Clinician Wellness Program and the codirector of the Effective Coping and Communication Skills for Clinicians Program.

Dr Bell is a quadruple board–certified and Harvard-trained public health specialist. She is a member of faculty for Harvard Medical School and works for Massachusetts General Hospital.

Dr Di Nicola is a child psychiatrist, family psychotherapist, and philosopher in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, where he is professor of psychiatry & addictology at the University of Montreal. He is also clinical professor of psychiatry & behavioral health at The George Washington University and president of the World Association of Social Psychiatry (WASP). Dr Di Nicola has received numerous national and international awards, honorary professorships, and fellowships. Of note, Dr Di Nicola was elected a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (FCAHS), given the Distinguished Service Award of the American Psychiatric Association (APA), and is a Fellow of the American College of Psychiatrists (FACPsych) and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (FRSC). His work straddles psychiatry and psychotherapy on one side and philosophy and poetry on the other. Dr Di Nicola’s publications include: A Stranger in the Family: Culture, Families and Therapy (WW Norton, 1997), Letters to a Young Therapist (Atropos Press, 2011), and Psychiatry in Crisis: At the Crossroads of Social Sciences, the Humanities, and Neuroscience (with D. Stoyanov; Springer Nature, 2021).

Dr Cho is a professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He is also the director of the UCLA Insomnia Clinic.

Dr Gaind is a professor and governor at the University of Toronto, Chief of Psychiatry at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Honorary Member of the World Psychiatric Association and former president (but no longer member) of the Canadian Psychiatric Association. He is not a “conscientious objector” to PAD and previously was physician chair of his former hospital’s assisted dying team. Views expressed are his own and not meant to represent any group he works with.