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The mission of the NYP-Weill Cornell Medicine Psychiatry Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Council is to promote a departmental culture in which difference among faculty, trainees, staff and patients is valued and respected (including, but not limited to, difference in race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, sex, ability, religious practice, socioeconomic class, citizenship, age and life experience). We are committed to developing practices that champion diversity, equity, and inclusion in areas of patient care, education, professional development and advocacy.
Department of Psychiatry partnered with medical students to develop the WCM Wellness Qlinic Program, a program providing free mental health care and community outreach to LGBTQ+ populations in need, while also creating education, training, and academic opportunities for students, trainees, faculty, staff.
A panel discussion with:
Jean-Marie Alves-Bradford, MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, CUMC
Associate Director for Clinical Services & Director of the Washington Heights Community Service (WHCS), New York State Psychiatric Institute
Director, Columbia Psychiatry’s Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
Latoya Frolov, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical College
Renuka Gupta, MD, FHM, FACP
Associate Professor of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College
Chief of Medicine, NYP/Lower Manhattan Hospital
Julia Iyasere, MD, MBA
Assistant Professor of Medicine, CUMC
Executive Director, Dalio Center for Health Justice at NYP
Louis I. Piels, Esq.
Chief Respect Officer, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
Rebecca Rendleman, MD
Ruth Shim, MD, MPH
Luke & Grace Kim Professor in Cultural Psychiatry
Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Associate Dean of Diverse and Inclusive Education
University of California, Davis School of Medicine
Dawn Belkin Martinez, PhD, LICSW
Associate Dean, Equity and Inclusion & Associate Clinical Professor
Boston University School of Social Work
Chloe Frankel, LICSW
Lecturer, Boston University School of Social Work
Steering Committee Member, Boston Liberation Health Group
Assistant Program Director, Friends of the Children – Boston
Darin Latimore, MD
Deputy Dean, Chief Diversity Officer
Associate Professor, General Internal Medicine
Yale School of Medicine
Joseph P. Gone, PhD
Professor of Anthropology and of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard University
Professor Claude Steele, PhD
Professor of Psychology, Stanford University
Jack Drescher, MD
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Columbia University
Adjunct Professor, New York University
Training & Supervising Analyst, W.A. White Institute
Craig L. Katz, M.D. & Sarah MacLean, Mount Sinai Health System
David M. Hernandez, Ph.D., Mount Holyoke College
"Smothering Asylum: Kids, Cages, and Political Currency in Migrant Processing"
Udodiri R. Okwandu, doctoral student, Harvard University
Jacqueline Rose Ph.D., Birkbeck University of London
2020 WCM Dean’s Diversity & Healthcare Disparity Research Award – Jack Keefe, Ph.D.
2020 Pioneers in Diversity Awards: The Bruce Laine Ballard, M.D. Award for Excellence in Mentorship
NewYork-Presbyterian Westchester Behavioral Health Center’s workshop series led by a steering committee of psychologists, psychology postdoctoral fellows, and social workers, geared towards providing skills, strategies, and resources for delivering culturally responsive care to the patient population at NYP. Topics covered during these quarterly workshops include strategies and resources for providing culturally responsive clinical assessments and interviewing of symptoms, as well as the delivery of culturally informed interventions. During each structured workshop, educational materials are read or viewed, analyzed, and processed, and resources are made available to all attendees interested in incorporating the skills taught in their clinical work! Feedback is also collected regularly to ensure workshops are experienced as productive and welcoming to all, and topics include those that attend are interested in learning more about. While this workshop series is organized and run by a steering committee composed of clinical staff and faculty at NYP/Weill Cornell and geared towards clinical practice, all staff and faculty (including non-clinical staff and voluntary faculty) who are interested are invited to intend!
Meeting information:
Meeting quarterly this year on the following dates: September 22, 2021, October 20, 2021, January 19, 2022, April 20, 2022, and July 20, 2022 from 3:00-4:30pm.
Email Stephanie Cherestal (stc9102@med.cornell.edu) for the Zoom Link
Semi-structured, open forums for the celebration of the diversity of NYP’s staff and for the strengthening of NYP’s commitment to providing a safe space for all. The New York Presbyterian Inclusion Groups take place on both the Weill Cornell and Westchester Behavioral Health Center campuses, and meet on a monthly basis to discuss topics such as race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, bias, and allyship. This forum is multi-disciplinary, in that staff across disciplines within the hospital are invited to attend and participate, including staff from the psychiatry, nursing, social work, food/nutrition, psychology, and maintenance departments, to name a few! These Inclusion Groups are led by a steering committee of multi-disciplinary staff and faculty members who structure each monthly discussions around various topics – a few involving clinical work with patients, many surrounding interpersonal encounters within the workplace, and some topics geared towards issues that staff might be struggling with on a personal basis as it relates to diversity and inclusion. Attendees are encouraged to enter this “brave space” together in order engage in these at times challenging discussions, and all voices and perspectives are welcome!
Meeting information:
Meeting times are campus dependent - reach out to Nina Guercio and NYP Inclusion Leaders for invitation.
Patient And Visitor Abusive/Discriminatory Behavior Policy
Members of the Weill Cornell Medicine community who experience or are aware of discrimination, harassment, or sexual misconduct from colleagues, peers, or patients are strongly encouraged to report it immediately to the Weill Cornell Office of Institutional Equity.
