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Has the Time Come for a Cultural Psychiatry Fellowship in the USA?

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Acknowledgments

The authors acknowledge Drs. Annelle Primm and Kamaldeep Bhui for providing comments on an earlier draft and Alison Bondurant and Dr. Ranna Parekh from the American Psychiatric Association’s Division of Diversity and Health Equity for providing membership data. The authors are members or invitees of the Cultural Committee of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry (GAP), which is an organization of nationally respected psychiatrists and other physicians dedicated to shaping psychiatric thinking, public programs, and clinical practice in mental health.

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  1. Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

    Neil Krishan Aggarwal & Roberto Lewis-Fernández

  2. New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY, USA

    Neil Krishan Aggarwal & Roberto Lewis-Fernández

  3. Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ, USA

    Robert Like

  4. David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Alex Kopelowicz

  5. New York University Langone Medical Center, New York, NY, USA

    Nadia Oryema

  6. University of California, Davis, CA, USA

    Francis Lu

  7. Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    Pablo Farias

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Dr. Aggarwal receives grant support from the National Institute of Mental Health (K23 MH102334).

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Aggarwal, N.K., Like, R., Kopelowicz, A. et al. Has the Time Come for a Cultural Psychiatry Fellowship in the USA?. Acad Psychiatry 40, 928–931 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40596-016-0585-0

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