Finding Our Voice

Join Dr. Sanya Virani and her guests, Paul B. Hill, M.D., and Dr. Hugh Caldwell to discuss the invaluable new title The Psychiatry Resident Handbook which aims to provide support, experience and mentorship to new residents, a book that trainees across the country will benefit from having on their bookshelves. In this episode, our guests -both contributors to the section on physician Impairment, sh...

Join Dr. Sanya Virani and her guests, Dr. Iverson Bell and Dr. Allison Ford to discuss the invaluable new title The Psychiatry Resident Handbook which aims to provide support, experience and mentorship to new residents, a book that trainees across the country will benefit from having on their bookshelves. In this episode, our guests -both contributors to the section on physician Impairment- share...

Join Dr. Sanya Virani and her guests, Alka Mathur, M.D., and Neal Amin, M.D., Ph. D. to discuss the invaluable new title The Psychiatry Resident Handbook which aims to provide support, experience and mentorship to new residents, a book that trainees across the country will benefit from having on their bookshelves. In this episode, our guests -both contributors to the chapter on telepsychiatry- sha...

Join Dr. Sanya Virani and her guests, Dr. Sallie De Golia, Dr. Raziya Wang, and Dr. Csilla Lippert to discuss the invaluable new title The Psychiatry Resident Handbook which aims to provide support, experience and mentorship to new residents, a book that trainees across the country will benefit from having on their bookshelves. Editors De Golia and Wang are joined by an early career psychiatrist,...

Dr. Virani focuses on the impact of Climate Change, and associated emergent anxieties, on our underlying mental health. Climate Change is affecting our livelihoods, our environments and our perceptions of the future; with implications on how we act and how we perceive our day-to-day lives. Virani (and guests) consider examples of patients presenting with climate-change specific conditions, discuss...

Dr. Virani focuses on exposure to war, violence, shootings, and the impact of migration.   These migrants are forced to flee from their homes due to threats of violence and death due to cultural or religious beliefs.    Just as traumatic for these individuals is the ability to adapt and be accepted in their new homes.  Discussed in the episode: Cultural Psychiatry Pre-migration stressors Post Migr...

In this episode, Dr. Virani and her guests, Dr. Qayyum and Dr. Conrad, focus on the impact of Adverse Child Experience (ACE) and Adverse Early Life Experiences (AELEs) on mental health and provide some insights through case discussions about the downstream impact of these experiences. Subjects discussed Inability to trust and build safe relations by victims of early childhood experiences The effec...

In Eleanor Rigby, the Beatles lament about loneliness and isolation and challenge us to "look at all the lonely people". In this episode, Dr. Virani invites Dr. Dolores Malaspina and Dr. Luca Pauselli to explore social exclusion and insolation and its effects on mental health through case studies.  Join us on the first episode of a new season of Finding Our Voice covering the social determinants o...

This episode focuses on the Indigenous community, Dr. Virani discusses the systemic racism issues faced by this community with two psychiatrists who have Native American heritage, Dr. Mary Hasbah Roessel , a psychiatrist at the Santa Fe Service Unit in Santa Fe Indian Hospital working in the outpatient Behavioral Health Clinic in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is Navajo from the southwestern US.  Dr. S...

Before Stonewall, the gay community lived in the shadows and even after this monumental protest and other significant milestones, the LGBTQ community still faces discrimination, abuse, and aggressive behaviors in their day-to-day lives. Dr. Virani discusses the issues at the core of the mental health challenges to the LGBTQ community referencing history where applicable, with Dr. Elie Aoun and Dr....

There has been a dramatic upsurge in violence against Asian Americans over the last year since the outbreak of the virus in Wuhan China.  In this episode, Dr. Virani talks with Asian American and Pacific Islander Doctors about their experiences with racial trauma and cultural boundaries that have affected them and the lives of their patients. Discussed in this episode The history of xenophobia aga...

Diversity among women in psychiatric training programs is seldom discussed and in this episode, Dr. Virani talks with two accomplished women program directors about the challenges for women in training programs. Drs. Cama and DeJong cover issues ranging from failures of well-intentioned supervisors to pregnancy to the "imposter syndrome".  Dr. Shireen Cama divides her time at Cambridge Health Alli...

Drs. Virani, Madaan, and Khan are International Medical Graduates (IMG) who come from different cultural backgrounds. Join these three as they recount personal stories of the highs and lows of being an IMG in the US.  They discuss the physician and patient discrimination they faced through micro and macro aggressions and the road ahead for them and for other IMGs. Also appearing in the episode is...

Finding Our Voice continues to explore the issue of systemic racism.  In this special episode released during Black History Month, we examine the effects of social determinants on the African American community in America.    Dr. Virani discusses with her guests access to mental health care and the quality of care black patients encounter.  Dr. Talley and Dr. Metzger cover the profound impact of t...

In this episode, Dr. Sanya Virani and her guests discuss the impact of social determinants on the Hispanic community. Listen as Dr. Esperanza Diaz and Dr. Andrea Mendiola discuss challenges their patients have faced with outcomes both positive and negative.  Guests: Esperanza Díaz M.D. provides teaching and supervision for Yale medical students, psychiatry residents, and trainees from other discip...