Authors

Amitha Dhingra, MD

Dr Dhingra is an Ohio native who completed her psychiatry residency and geriatric psychiatry fellowship at Emory University. She is currently serving as the psychiatric medical director for FirstClass Healthcare, overseeing mental health services in correctional settings across Atlanta, GA, and the surrounding areas.

Ms Collins is a licensed professional counselor associate under the supervision of Dr John Spoede, LPC-S and a former collegiate athlete specializing in sports counseling. Her approach blends human-centered care with evidence-based therapeutic modalities, supporting athlete mental health and creating space for the human behind the uniform.

Dr Schultz is a clinical associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford School of Medicine.

Ms Hashmi is a research coordinator at the Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Baylor College of Medicine with an interest in the overlaps between internal medicine and psychiatry.

Dr Goodman is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and a clinical associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Norton College of Medicine at SUNY Upstate Medical University. He is also the founder of the nonprofit charity, My ADHD Foundation.

Dr Wilson is a consultation liaison psychiatrist, epidemiologist, and associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Vanderbilt, and a physician scientist at the Veterans Affairs Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center.

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 Combs is a board-certified psychiatrist and medical director of inpatient psychiatry at Harborview, as well as an associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and director of the psychiatry clerkship for the University of Washington School of Medicine.

Pari Desai, MD

Dr Desai is PGY-3 psychiatry resident at Baptist Hospitals of Southeast Texas in Beaumont, TX.

Tony Cunningham, PhD

Dr Cunningham is an assistant professor and the director of the Center for Sleep and Cognition and the Behavioral Sleep Medicine Clinic in the Psychiatry Department at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School.

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.