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Dismantling Structural Racism in Psychiatric Residency Training: Nurturing a New Generation of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) Psychiatrists

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The authors have informed the journal that they agree that both Nicole Pacheco and Nhi-Ha Trinh completed the intellectual and other work typical of the first author.

Many thanks to the entire team who presented at the American Psychiatric Association’s (APA) town hall series “APA Addresses Structural Racism” in 2021, including Crystal Clark, M.D., M.Sc., Anthony Kulukulualani, M.D., and Michele Reid, M.D., DLFAPA, FACPsych, as well as the APA Presidential Task Force to Address Structural Racism Throughout Psychiatry chaired by Cheryl Wills M.D. and convened by APA President Jeffrey Geller M.D.

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  1. Columbia-New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York City, NY, USA

    Nicole Pacheco

  2. Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

    Nhi-Ha Trinh & Aava Jahan

  3. Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA

    Michael Mensah

  4. Cambridge Health Alliance, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Gabriel Felix

  5. University of South Carolina School of Medicine-Greenville Prisma Health, Greer, SC, USA

    Frank Clark

  6. University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE, USA

    Sheritta Strong

  7. Howard University College of Medicine, Washington, DC, USA

    Danielle Hairston

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Dr. Pacheco has received funding from SAMHSA Minority Fellowship.

Dr. Trinh has received royalties from Oxford University Press for editing a book.

Dr. Mensah has received funding from SAMHSA Minority Fellowship, Yale National Clinician Scholars Program, and by CTSA Grant Number TL1 TR001864 from the National Center for Advancing Translational Science (NCATS), a component of the National Institutes of Health.

Dr. Clark has received royalties from Sunovion, Janssen Neuroscience, and The Steve Fund.

Dr. Hariston has received grants from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Microsoft, and consulting fees from Psychcom.

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Pacheco, N., Trinh, NH., Jahan, A. et al. Dismantling Structural Racism in Psychiatric Residency Training: Nurturing a New Generation of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) Psychiatrists. Acad Psychiatry 46, 657–662 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40596-022-01678-1

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