HEArts Program
on receiving a 2019 UCSF Innovators Award
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News/Updates
Dr. Armen Arevian interviewed on CBS Los Angeles
for his innovative UCLA mental health app, MyCoachConnect.
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Dr. Kenneth Wells Receives the 2018 Sarnat International Prize in Mental Health
Click Here to Read the National Academy of Medicine’s Press Release
Congratulations to Joseph Mango, Elizabeth Lizaola-Gillespie, Lily Zhang, and Dr. Bonnie Zima on their research paper–an innovative study that addresses depression stigma using a stage play inspired by the TV show Friends published in the June 2019 volume of the Behavior Therapist. Click Here to Read the Article
The Daily Bruin covered our recent Mental Health Awareness Event/Benefit Live Screenplay Reading of “James Dean America” that took place on June 1, 2019. Click Here to Read the Article
Congratulations to Dr. Bonnie Zima on being selected for the Child and Adult Core Set Annual Review Workgroup
Dr. Kenneth Wells receives the UCLA 2019 Lifetime Achievement in Education from the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
In May 2019, UCLA HSS and Healthy African American Families produced the stage play We See You, Sis written by Dr. Kia Skrine Jeffers as part of our California Arts Research in the Arts grant. Visit the Website
Ethnicity & Disease Special Issue: Advances in Community Partnered Participatory Research: Behavioral Health and Beyond
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Meet Our Team
Lingqi Tang, PhD
Dr. Lingqi Tang is a principal statistician who has been at the UCLA/NPI Health Services Research Center since 1998 and has worked on major center projects. She received her Ph.D.…
Bonnie Zima, MD, MPH
Bonnie T. Zima, MD, MPH is Professor-in-Residence in the UCLA Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and Associate Director of the UCLA Center for Health Services and Society. Dr. Zima’s…
Sheryl Kataoka, MD, MSHS
Dr. Sheryl Kataoka is Professor-in-Residence in the UCLA Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, where she serves as the Training Director of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship. She completed…
Minhxuan Tran, MPH
Minhxuan Tran is the project manager for the Mental Health Services Act Outcome Measures Project. Prior, she has worked in collaborative research and advocacy roles with the Orange County Strategic…
Krystal Griffith, MPH
Krystal Griffith obtained her Bachelor’s of Science in Natural Science from Loyola Marymount University in 2010. After obtaining her undergraduate degree she worked as a research assistant for almost three…
Jeanne Miranda, PhD
Dr. Jeanne Miranda is Assistant Director of the Center and a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences. She is a mental health services researcher who has focused…
Michael McCreary, MPP
Michael McCreary has worked on projects that involved using technology to improve children’s mental healthcare, evaluating the impact of coordinated physical and mental health systems, improving disaster resilience in communities…
Rosalinda Cárdenas
Rosalinda Cárdenas graduated from UCLA with a BA in History. Her role is to provide administrative support for affiliated center projects, and provide support for the Operations Core.
Joseph Mango, MFA
Joseph Mango is the director of the arts program, HEArts, at the UCLA Center for Health Services and Society. Within this role, Joseph has led a number of initiatives reducing…
Lily Zhang, MS
Lily Zhang is a programmer and statistician at the UCLA Semel Institute’s Health Services Research Center. Zhang has expertise in programming, data management, and analytic methods such as random cross…
Elyse Tascione, MA
Elyse obtained her Bachelor of Science in Psychology at Eastern Connecticut State University and her Master of Arts in Psychology at Southern Connecticut State University. She has a wide range…
Nancy Alfaro
Nancy Alfaro graduated with a BS in Biology from the University of California, Los Angeles. She has a variety of interests, including helping to increase access to legal, medical, and…
Catherine Wilkerson
Catherine Wilkerson graduated from UC Davis in 2014 with a Bachelor’s of Science in Psychology, Biology Emphasis. She has strong interests in computer science, information technology, cognition, and neuroscience. During…
Bowen Chung, MD, MSHS
Bowen Chung, MD, MSHS is an Associate Professor-in-Residence in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, an Adjunct Scientist at the…
Armen Arevian, MD, PhD
Dr. Armen Arevian is Assistant Professor-in-Residence in the Department of Psychiatry at UCLA; Director of the Innovation Lab at the Semel Institute at UCLA; Director of the Translational Technology and Communications…
Kenneth Wells, MD, MPH
Kenneth B. Wells, MD, MPH, is the David Weil Endowed Professor and Director of the Center for Health Services and Society of the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior,…
Elizabeth Bromley, MD, PhD
Elizabeth Bromley is a psychiatrist and medical anthropologist. She is Associate Professor in Residence in the Departments of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences and Anthropology at UCLA. Sheis the Director of…
Alanna Montero
Alanna Montero earned her Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences from the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). In the near future, she hopes to obtain a graduate level degree.…
Alethea Marti, PhD
Alethea Marti is a linguistic anthropologist with a PhD/MA from UCLA and a BA in Cognitive Science from UC Berkeley. She conducts qualitative discourse analysis for Dr. Bonnie Zima’s Mobile…
Alexander Young, MD, MSHS
Dr. Alexander S. Young is a psychiatrist and health services researcher. He is Professor at the UCLA Department of Psychiatry, Director of Health Services for the VA Mental Illness Research,…
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