Tuesday, November 23, 2021

2020 Serge and Yvette Dadone Clinical Teaching Award, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Recipient of the David Geffen School of Medicine's the Serge & Yvette Dadone Clinical Teaching Award for 2020.


 




Thursday, November 1, 2018

Digital Media Recruitment for Fall Prevention Among Older Chinese-American Individuals: Observational, Cross-Sectional Study


Digital Media Recruitment for Fall Prevention Among Older Chinese-American Individuals

Background: Research in fall prevention programs has increased in recent years in response to the aging demographics of the United States. To date, limited research and outreach programs have focused on ethnic minorities due to increased cost, language barriers, and cultural differences. Digital media platforms may be a cost-effective avenue to initiate fall prevention programs for minority populations.
Objective: The objective of this study was to determine whether Facebook advertisements are a practical recruitment method for health education to the Chinese-speaking population.

Tuesday, September 11, 2018

Dementia Prevention and Treatment: An Asian American Perspective


Benjamin Woo, MD
Associate Clinical Professor, University of California, Los Angeles
¨ Dementia Prevention and Treatment: An Asian American Perspective
Benjamin Woo, M.D., is an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at UCLA. He received his medical degree at the University of California, San Diego and did his psychiatry residency at UCLA-Kern Psychiatry Residency Program. Currently, he is an Inpatient Attending Psychiatrist and the Psychiatry Clerkship Director for medical students rotating at Olive View – UCLA Medical Center. For the past ten years, he has spoken on 100+ radio shows on various mental health topics on the only Cantonese radio station in Los Angeles. In 2013, the American Psychiatric Foundation awarded him one of its Advancing Minority Mental Health Awards. In 2018, he was the recipient of the C. Doris and Toshio Hoshide Distinguished Teaching Prize in Asian American Studies at UCLA. Dr. Woo’s research interests include Geriatric and Asian American mental health.

Tuesday, July 24, 2018

Roeske Teaching Award (2018)




Roeske Teaching Award

The Nancy C.A. Roeske, M.D., Certificate — established in 1990 to honor Dr. Nancy C.A. Roeske — is awarded to individuals who have made outstanding and sustaining contributions to medical student education.

Friday, March 2, 2018

2018 Entry: Why I Think Neuroscience Is...™ Essential Jamie Chung



The stigma of dementia is debilitating.  Let's fight together!  A 3-min short film titled, "Sing me a lullaby," by Director Jamie Chung.

Thursday, March 1, 2018

UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine Faculty Profile



https://people.healthsciences.ucla.edu/institution/personnel?personnel_id=8941644

A Short Biography:


Benjamin Woo, M.D., is an Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the Geffen School of Medicine at the UCLA and Psychiatry Clerkship Director at the Olive View - UCLA Medical Center. He is the faculty advisor for the UCLA Asian Pacific Health Corps, an undergraduate student organization that promotes health awareness in the Asian communities. Dr. Woo is also a member of the Faculty Advisory Committee of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center. He has published many articles addressing mental health care disparities amongst different Asian American ethnic groups in the fields of emergency psychiatry and geriatric mental health. Since 2009, he has spoken on 100+ radio shows on various mental health topics on the only Cantonese radio station in Los Angeles.


He has received many awards and honors for his work and teaching - among others, the Award for Excellence In Education from the UCLA School of Medicine, the Hoshide Distinguished Teaching Prize in Asian American Studies at UCLA, the Roeske Teaching Award from the American Psychiatric Association, and the Advancing Minority Mental Health Award from the American Psychiatric Foundation.

Tuesday, February 14, 2017

認識思覺失調

2017年 2月14日 鳳凰衛視香港台 -- 認識思覺失調

思覺失調是指患者在思想及感覺上都出現了問題。嚴重情況下更可能與現實處境脫節。就好像大病前的發燒一樣,初期患病者在日常生活中已顯露變化。思覺失調患者的邏輯跟現實偏離。睡眠或飲食習慣失調、幻聽(Auditory Hallucination)、幻視(Visual Hallucination),和妄想(Delusion),都是思覺失調的跡象。如不及早醫治,可能發展成精神分裂症或其他重型精神病。

對這一疾病的了解是必要的。當病情惡化,病人會出現思緒紊亂,影響學業或工作表現。更嚴重的是,患者可能失去自理能力,亦可能走上自殺之路。思覺失調的成因至今尚未完全明確。像所有的疾病一樣,病因包括生理(Biological)、心理與環境(Psychosocial)因素的互相影響。




胡啟贇醫生 (Benjamin Woo, M.D.) 現任洛杉磯加大 (UCLA) 醫學院臨床副教授及主治醫師。2007年獲美國國家衛生研究院 (NIH/NIMH) 醫師獎, 2012,2013及2016年獲洛加大醫學院卓越教學獎, 專研精神科急診及老人精神科。

胡醫生其它節目 -- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCSJZLUBWNADQX1xpEdEmpV-iwcE4-OPD

胡醫生正視思覺失調專題 -- http://drbwoo.blogspot.com/2011/10/blog-post.html