Credentials

Sc.B. with Honors     Brown University, 1989
M.D.                              Stanford University, 1996
D.F.A.P.A.                    Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, 2016
Psychiatry
residency                    Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute, UCSF, 2005
Transference Focused Psychotherapy Training with Frank Yeomans and Eve Caligor, Columbia University, 2014-2105
Advanced Topics in Mindfulness and Psychotherapy with Dr. Ron Siegel, 2013-2014

Licensed by the Medical Board of California
Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology since 2011 (Board Certified)

Founder, SF Love Dojo
Trained Teacher of Mindful Self Compassion (MSC)
Certified Teacher of Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT)
Founding Steering Committee member and Core Webinar instructor for Cohort 1, Self Compassion In Psychotherapy program, Center for Mindful Self Compassion

Memberships

American Psychiatric Association
Black Psychiatrists of America
Committee of Asian American Psychiatrists of the NCPS
Indo-American Psychiatric Association
Northern California Psychiatric Association
California Psychiatric Association

presentations

I have presented at local, regional and national conferences and meetings, and also internationally. I have served as moderator and panelist for numerous discussions. Topics have included narcissism and megalomania and the American psyche, technology and society, the psychology of immigration, racism and other issues pertaining to Asian American men and women, pilgrimages and personal journeys, compassion and self-compassion, internet addiction, cyberbullying, social media, and relationships. I have also served as a Healing Circle facilitator, with Tsuru for Solidarity and other community organizations.

some awards

2022 Outstanding Service Award, Indo-American Psychiatric Association
2021 Best Film Cannes Independent Film Festival for The Bandaged Place
2017 Nautilus Silver Book Award for Facebuddha: Transcendence in the Age of Social Networks
2016 Proclamation by San Francisco Board of Supervisors, Outstanding Service
2005 Outstanding Service Award, Cultural Diversity Committee of UCSF psychiatry residents

some publications

Someone I Love is Hurting. (Lion’s Roar Magazine, published online February 1, 2023)
Medicine for Difficult Times, at the Center for Mindful Self Compassion (August 9, 2019)
The PBS Asian Americans Documentary: A Critical Look by a Superfan (May 13, 2020)
A Psychological State of Our Union: We Are All Migrants (February 5, 2019)
Amazon, Toxicity and Finding Resilience (Clinical Psychiatric News, August 20, 2015)
The Assault on the American Mind (Psychology Today, November 15, 2015)
On Anger: Lela Lee’s Angry Little Girls (Nha Magazine, Jan/Feb 2006)
Tech Troubles: Emotional Dilemmas of a Technological Age (Nha Magazine, July/Aug 2005)
Goh Love Someone: About Music, Love and Transformation (Nha Magazine, Sep/Oct 2005)