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American Psychiatric Foundation Presents Awards for Advancing Minority Mental Health
The American Psychiatric Foundation presented its Awards for Advancing Minority Mental Health last evening at its annual gala, held this year at the City Club of San Francisco. Here are this year’s winners:
• The Latino Program at Positive Impact of Atlanta
• William B. Lawson, M.D., Ph.D., of Washington, D.C.
• LGBT Affirmative Action Program of South Beach Psychiatric Center in Brooklyn, N.Y.
• Benjamin Woo, M.D., of Los Angeles serves the Greater Los Angeles Chinese community through direct services, research, and community outreach. His outreach efforts include writing Chinese newspaper articles to raise awareness on the availability of treatment and serving as a guest speaker on the only Cantonese station in the Greater Los Angeles area. Woo, who volunteers at a community health center to provide free medical care to Chinese-speaking patients, helped to create a culturally sensitive depression collaborative treatment model in primary care to address the high frequency of immigrants prematurely terminating mental care.
