Guest: Dr. Tara Chandrasekhar is a psychiatrist and Associate Professor at Duke University School of Medicine, where she directs the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship. Her work focuses on supporting autistic people across the lifespan — especially during the transition to adulthood — and helping clinicians provide neurodiversity-affirming care. Through her clinical work, teaching, and research, Dr. Chandrasekhar is passionate about improving how we understand and support autistic adults in healthcare, education, and everyday life.

Host: Anish Dhamija, MD, MS is Board-Certified in both Psychiatry and Family Medicine, completing residency training at UC San Diego in 2022. He attended the Public Psychiatry Fellowship at Columbia University from 2022-2023 and also served as Clinical Director of the Crisis Team and 988 Headquarters in Westchester County, New York. His current position is as the Director of Behavioral Health at an FQHC by the border of San Diego and Mexico, where he works in an integrated care setting closely with primary care. He lives in San Diego with his wife and young child.

Autism Resources:

• General: https://med.stanford.edu/neurodiversity/ndrd.html

• For healthcare appts: https://autismandhealth.org/

• Employment training: https://www.neurodiversityhub.org/

• Disability Resources: Employment, Voc Rehab, Education https://www.ndrn.org/about/ndrn-member-agencies/

• https://autisticadvocacy.org/

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Editor: Raquel Nunez, a medical doctor from Venezuela, has seen how social and economic hardships deeply affect mental health. These experiences shaped her approach to psychiatry, teaching her that the most meaningful care comes from working alongside communities and learning about their struggles to develop solutions on their journey towards healing. Community psychiatry embodies this approach to mental health care that she is so passionate about, emphasizing equality, accessibility, and care for all.

Social Media Content Creator: Jessica Johnston, a first-year medical student, is passionate about providing human-centered care for people experiencing mental health crises and chronic mental illness within the contexts of their communities and lived experiences. Through her work in crisis residential care, street medicine, and public health, she has seen how community-based approaches can promote healing, dignity, resilience, and long-term support for individuals and families. She is especially interested in addressing the social and structural factors that shape mental health outcomes and in building systems of care that are accessible, equitable, and rooted in social justice.

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Host: Rob Gadomski, DO is the Deputy Medical Director of Psychiatric Services at Project Renewal, Inc and a graduate of the Columbia Public Psychiatry Fellowship. He works primarily with homeless and marginalized individuals in the New York City area. He went to the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine for medical school and completed his psychiatry residency training at Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia before moving to NYC, where he gathered an interest in working with homeless populations and individuals interacting with the criminal legal system.

Editor: Mike Zhang, a fourth-year medical student, is drawn to community psychiatry because it bridges clinical care with public health and social support, allowing him to work directly with underserved populations. Having lived in diverse places and seen how community context shapes well-being, he values psychiatry’s potential to address mental health through connection and collaboration. He is especially interested in how preventive and rehabilitative services can improve long-term outcomes for individuals and families.

Social Media Content Creator: Julia Kooser, a resident at Penn Highlands DuBois, believes that addressing social drivers of health is imperative for maintaining psychological and mental health. During medical school, she was able to take part in initiatives to distribute naloxone to people within the community, and also took part in hosting voter registration events to mobilize individuals within the local community. Julia believes that when people have the ability to meet their basic needs, such as having access to housing and access to medical care and voting for individuals that represent their best interests, individuals are empowered to live happy and fulfilled lives. She feels that community psychiatry is the best vehicle for understanding these social drivers of health, and to enact change that makes the world more equitable and just.

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Guest:

Dr. Adjoa Smalls-Mantey is a physician-scientist, writer, medical media consultant, and organizational leader. She conducted HIV viral immunology research and completed her doctoral degree at the University of Oxford. She later earned her medical degree from Columbia University and completed her psychiatry residency at The Mount Sinai Hospital where she served as chief resident. Afterwards, she completed her public psychiatry fellowship at Columbia University, working on mental health policy at the New York State Office of Mental Health. Dr. Smalls-Mantey is also certified in lifestyle medicine. She currently practices emergency psychiatry in New York City and is Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. She is president of the New York County Psychiatric Society. Within the American Psychiatric Association she has served on the Presidential Work Group for Lifestyle Psychiatry and is a member of the Council for Communications. Dr. Smalls-Mantey speaks and writes on mental illness, wellness, and public health and seeks to empower people to make informed decisions about their health. Her media consulting work includes several on-air appearances for ABC News, Fox 5 DC; podcasts, radio interviews, writing for ABC News Medical Unit, and serving on the Medical Advisory Board for VeryWell. Last year she was appointed by HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra to the Interdepartmental Serious Mental Illness Coordinating Committee. Dr. Smalls-Mantey is an active member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc, and is also the co-author of the award-winning children’s book Anjali the Brave: All about Vaccines. Social Media (IG, TikTok, YouTube): @doctoradjoa, also on LinkedIn.

Host:

Angela Liu, MD is a fourth-year psychiatry resident and Chief Resident of Medical Education at Northwell Health - Zucker Hillside Hospital. After graduating residency, she will be joining the Columbia Public Psychiatry Fellowship. 

Podcast Editor:

Daniel Carvallo Ruiz is a resident in BronxCare Health System. All of his years of offering free mental health consultations to the most underserved Venezuelan populations, along with his work at Columbia Psychiatry/NYSPI, and his current position as a PGY-1 at the  BronxCare Health System Psychiatry Residency Program, have made him understand the critical importance and leadership role that community psychiatrists have for treating human beings in melting pots of pure diversity: an amalgamation of different races, genders, cultures, backgrounds, religions, beliefs, and ideals that converge into mental health disorders. His biggest desire is to become a leader in mental health advocacy, by using his skills in English, Spanish and ASL to help the most diverse communities and minorities, including those in forensic settings, that require immediate mental health attention, prevention, treatment, counseling and interdisciplinary support.

Social Media Content Creator:

Pooja Jaiswal

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Guest:

Kenneth Minkoff, MD is Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at ZiaPartners, Inc., a behavioral health system consultation firm in Tucson, AZ. He is Board-Certified as an addiction psychiatrist and community psychiatrist, Board Member Emeritus of the American Association for Community Psychiatry, He is Co-Chair of the Community Psychiatry Committee of the Group for Advancement of Psychiatry, and one of the lead authors of the 2021 Report: Roadmap to the Ideal Crisis System, the 2024 White Paper on CCBHCs and Crisis Systems, and the 2025 White Paper on the Comprehensive Health Integration (CHI) Framework, all published by the National Council for Mental Wellbeing. He is a member of the National Council’s Medical Director Institute and consults to the National Council Centers of Excellence on Integrated Care and CCBHCs. Dr. Minkoff has been recognized as a national and international leader in the strategic development of quality-driven managed behavioral health care systems and integrated services and systems for complex populations for over 25 years. 

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Host:

Rob Gadomski, DO is the Deputy Medical Director of Psychiatric Services at Project Renewal, Inc and a graduate of the Columbia Public Psychiatry Fellowship. He works primarily with homeless and marginalized individuals in the New York City area. He went to the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine for medical school and completed his psychiatry residency training at Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia before moving to NYC, where he gathered an interest in working with homeless populations and individuals interacting with the criminal legal system.

Social media content creators:  

Pooja Jaiswal and Poyani Bavishi

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Guest: 

Angela Coombs Mumuni, M.D., is a board-certified psychiatrist and Associate Medical Director for Alameda County Behavioral Health Department where she works both clinically in East Oakland, CA as well as serves as administrator supporting psychiatric providers, system-wide psychiatric quality improvement and workforce development. She completed her adult psychiatry residency training at Columbia University/New York-Presbyterian Hospital, where she also served as Chief

Resident before going on to complete Columbia’s Public Psychiatry Fellowship. She now serves as Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine. Thus far her career spans early psychosis services, mental health inequities facing Black American populations and other minoritized groups as well as public-sector system transformation. Her scholarship appears in Psychiatric Services, JAACAP, and Psychiatric Clinics of North America. Social Media: on LinkedIn.

Host:

Dr. Adjoa Smalls-Mantey is a physician-scientist, writer, medical media consultant, and organizational leader. She conducted HIV viral immunology research and completed her doctoral degree at the University of Oxford. She later earned her medical degree from Columbia University and completed her psychiatry residency at The Mount Sinai Hospital where she served as chief resident. Afterwards, she completed her public psychiatry fellowship at Columbia University, working on mental health policy at the New York State Office of Mental Health. Dr. Smalls-Mantey is also certified in lifestyle medicine. She currently practices emergency psychiatry in New York City and is Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. She is president of the New York County Psychiatric Society. Within the American Psychiatric Association she has served on the Presidential Work Group for Lifestyle Psychiatry and is a member of the Council for Communications. Dr. Smalls-Mantey speaks and writes on mental illness, wellness, and public health and seeks to empower people to make informed decisions about their health. Her media consulting work includes several on-air appearances for ABC News, Fox 5 DC; podcasts, radio interviews, writing for ABC News Medical Unit, and serving on the Medical Advisory Board for VeryWell. Last year she was appointed by HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra to the Interdepartmental Serious Mental Illness Coordinating Committee. Dr. Smalls-Mantey is an active member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc, and is also the co-author of the award-winning children’s book Anjali the Brave: All about Vaccines. Social Media (IG, TikTok, YouTube): @doctoradjoa, also on LinkedIn.

Podcast editor: Mike Zhang, a third year medical student, is drawn to community psychiatry because it bridges clinical care with public health and social support, allowing him to work directly with underserved populations. Having lived in diverse places and seen how community context shapes well-being, he values psychiatry’s potential to address mental health through connection and collaboration. He is especially interested in how preventive and rehabilitative services can improve long-term outcomes for individuals and families.

Social media content creator: Pooja Jaiswal

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Guest: 

Dr. Sosunmolu Shoyinka is an award-winning psychiatrist, speaker and author, trained at Yale, Columbia, and NYU. Dr Shoyinka is Triple Board certified and holds an MBA from the Kelley School of Business. He is a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania and a Fellow of the Philadelphia College of Physicians. He serves on the Board of the American Association for Community Psychiatry. Dr Shoyinka led the redesign of Philadelphia’s crisis system. This effort resulted in Philadelphia’s recognition by the Biden Administration as a model city for 988 implementation. Dr Shoyinka is the co-creator of the SMART Tool, which facilitates self-directed antiracism work within organizations. Dr Shoyinka is also co-creator of a patent-pending risk-stratification analytic software that facilitates population addiction treatment. Dr Shoyinka’s leadership expertise has been nationally recognized. In May 2022, he received a Special Presidential Commendation from the American Psychiatric Association. He has been recognized as Black Leader shaping the Future of Psychiatry and is a regular guest speaker at state and national conferences. Dr Shoyinka is married to Dr. Kemi Shoyinka. They live in the Greater Philadelphia area and are blessed with 3 wonderful children: Nimi, Nife and Nisimi.

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Host:

Rob Gadomski, DO is the Deputy Medical Director of Psychiatric Services at Project Renewal, Inc and a graduate of the Columbia Public Psychiatry Fellowship. He works primarily with homeless and marginalized individuals in the New York City area. He went to the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine for medical school and completed his psychiatry residency training at Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia before moving to NYC, where he gathered an interest in working with homeless populations and individuals interacting with the criminal legal system.

Editor: Chelsea Mathews is a medical student and research assistant.

Social Media Content Creator: Poyani Bhavishi and Pooja Jaiswal

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Guests: 

Brandon Spatz has been an active member of Miracle Clubhouse for a decade, demonstrating a deep and consistent commitment to the Clubhouse Model. In 2024, he joined the Clubhouse International Faculty, facilitating Clubhouse Accreditation visits. Since joining the Faculty, Brandon has completed three accreditation visits, with his fourth scheduled for November 2025. He currently serves on the Miracle Clubhouse Advisory Board, is actively involved in the Clubhouse Ohio Coalition, and contributes to multiple committees both within and beyond the Clubhouse network. He is also the co-creator and host of a mental health podcast developed with his colleagues as part of the Work-Ordered Day at Miracle Clubhouse called EmpowerHalfAnHour. Since its launch, the podcast has reached listeners in 20 countries and 37 U.S. states. Brandon has presented and served as a panelist at Clubhouse conferences and other conferences both in Ohio and nationally. Most notably, he was a panelist at the Clubhouse International USA Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, where he shared insights on integrating innovative work into the Work Ordered Day—particularly podcasting—into the Clubhouse.

EmpowerHalfAnHour podcast: https://empowerhalfanhour.wordpress.com/

Podcast instagram:

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John Delman has been a member of Fountain House for fifty years, and was on the staff for thirty-five years.  As a member he engaged in all aspects of the program--vocational, residential, and social--and as a social practitioner he worked extensively in Visiting Colleague Training, as well as with the educational and housing components of the clubhouse.  He recently attended a psychiatric conference in Berlin, and will be writing an article for the ROAR journal on the founder of the model, John Beard, whom he knew well.  He is currently a member of the Partners in Care team, creating closer bonds between clubhouses and the psychiatric community, and at age 75 is something of a Fountain House historian, assisting  a History professor from Bryn Mawr in a review of the archives in preparation for a book on Deinstitutionalization.

Resources:

Clubhouse Model International -  https://clubhouse-intl.org/

Fountain House - https://www.fountainhouse.org/

Host:

Angela Liu, MD is a fourth-year psychiatry resident and Chief Resident of Medical Education at Northwell Health - Zucker Hillside Hospital. After graduating residency, she will be joining the Columbia Public Psychiatry Fellowship. 

Editor:

Mike Zhang is a third year medical student. He is drawn to community psychiatry because it bridges clinical care with public health and social support, allowing him to work directly with underserved populations. Having lived in diverse places and seen how community context shapes well-being, he values psychiatry’s potential to address mental health through connection and collaboration. He is especially interested in how preventive and rehabilitative services can improve long-term outcomes for individuals and families.

Social Media Content Creator:

Pooja Jaiswal

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Guests: 

Dr. Gordon Clark is the Founding President of the American Association for Community Psychiatry, and worked to develop guidelines for psychiatrists practicing in various settings, including CMHCs, state hospitals, state offices of mental health, staff model HMOs, and organized systems of care. He is also a Past President of the American Association for Psychiatric Administration & Leadership. Dr. Clark has a BA in English from Yale University and a Master of Divinity degree from the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, CA. He received his MD degree from George Washington University Medical School, where he received the Benjamin Manchester Award. He did his internship, residency, and fellowship at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, and was also a Falk Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He is a diplomate of the National Board of Medical Examiners, the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, the American Board of Medical Management, and the American College of Physician Executives. He is certified both in administrative psychiatry by the American Psychiatric Association and as a physician executive by the Certifying Commission in Medical Management.

Dr. Altha Jeanne Stewart is the Senior Associate Dean for Community Health Engagement, and Director of the Center for Youth Advocacy and Well-Being, and Director of the Division of Public and Community Psychiatry at University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC). In her role as Senior Associate Dean for Community Health Engagement, she serves as PI/co-PI overseeing grants funded by HHS (SAMHSA, NIH, CDC and OMH), DOJ (OJJDP), Robert Wood Johnson and Annie E. Casey Foundations, local philanthropy, and the state of Tennessee totaling over $10 million in annual funding. She is also responsible for developing services related to outreach efforts in critical health areas facing the local community, including primary care and mental health service access, integrated health/behavioral health, chronic medical conditions (diabetes, hypertension and cancer), and COVID-19 identified health disparities. As a native Memphian and longstanding leader in Community Engagement, she has established working relationships with community organizations serving children and families, and strong ties with community health, behavioral health, and social and human service providers across the county to assist with referrals for needed services.

Hosts:

Rob Gadomski, DO is the Deputy Medical Director of Psychiatric Services at Project Renewal, Inc and a graduate of the Columbia Public Psychiatry Fellowship. He works primarily with homeless and marginalized individuals in the New York City area. He went to the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine for medical school and completed his psychiatry residency training at Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia before moving to NYC, where he gathered an interest in working with homeless populations and individuals interacting with the criminal legal system.

Angela Liu, MD is a fourth-year psychiatry resident and Chief Resident of Medical Education at Northwell Health - Zucker Hillside Hospital. After graduating residency, she will be joining the Columbia Public Psychiatry Fellowship. 

Social media content creator:

Vishnu Ghantasala

Editor:

Daniel Ernesto Carvallo Ruiz

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Guest:

Dr. Thida Thant is a consultation-liaison psychiatrist and associate professor in the University of Colorado Department of Psychiatry where she is the director of the CL psychiatry service, the Psychiatric Consultation for the Medically Complex clinic, the Easy Consultation psychiatry access program and Program Director of the CL Psychiatry Fellowship. She completed undergrad at the University of Texas at Austin, attended medical school at the University of Texas Medical School in Houston and completed her general adult psychiatry residency and CL fellowship at the University of Colorado. Her academic interests include marijuana and its impact on psychiatric practice, cannabis in medical education and comprehensivepsychiatric care for medically and neurologically complex patients. She has written about cannabis and psychiatric care in books such as Marijuana and Mental Health, Cannabis in Medicine and Cannabis in Psychiatric Practice and has published an AAMC MedEdPortal curriculum entitled "What You Need to Know About Cannabis: An Evidence-Based Crash Course for Mental Health Trainees." 

Host:

Anish Dhamija, MD, MS is Board-Certified in both Psychiatry and Family Medicine, completing residency training at UC San Diego in 2022. He attended the Public Psychiatry Fellowship at Columbia University from 2022-2023 and also served as Clinical Director of the Crisis Team and 988 Headquarters in Westchester County, New York. His current position is as the Director of Behavioral Health at an FQHC by the border of San Diego and Mexico, where he works in an integrated care setting closely with primary care. He lives in San Diego with his wife and young child.

Editor:

Daniel Ernesto Carvallo Ruiz comes from Caracas, Venezuela, where he went to Medical School at “Universidad Central de Venezuela - Escuela José María Vargas”. This is where he learned how to truly help disadvantaged and marginalized populations as an MD. 

With this passion in mind, he was fortunate enough to work as a Research Assistant at Columbia University Department of Psychiatry, and to become a Member in Training of the American Association for Community Psychiatry (AACP), as well as one of the audio editors of their magnificent podcast - The Community Psychiatry Podcast! 

He is currently a Psychiatry Resident PGY-1 at BronxCare Health System - Mount Sinai,  a Residency Program that focuses on delivering individualized mental health support to some of the most underserved and underprivileged populations in the country, while receiving the best and most supportive, academic and comprehensive training as a Psychiatry Resident. 

After Residency, he wishes to apply everything that he has learned in this profoundly amazing program and continue being an advocate for mental health, serving marginalized, underserved and disadvantaged communities as a Leader in the fields of Adult Psychiatry, Forensic Psychiatry and Public Psychiatry. 

Social Media Content Creator: 

Pooja Jaiswal 

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Guest:

Dr. Tony Carino, MD is a Street Psychiatrist in the Bronx where he provides psychiatric care to people experiencing homelessness. Dr. Carino is the Director of Psychiatry at Janian Medical Care and leads a team of 46 psychiatric practitioners who care for people experiencing homelessness at 86 NYC programs. Dr. Carino is on faculty at Columbia University Public Psychiatry Fellowship and teaches as an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. He has served on the Board of Directors at the American Association of Community Psychiatry. Dr. Carino previously worked as the Associate Medical Director at Pathways to Housing. He completed his psychiatric and medical training at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Albert Einstein Montefiore Medical Center and Loyola University Medical Center.

Host:

Rob Gadomski, DO is the Deputy Medical Director of Psychiatric Services at Project Renewal, Inc and a graduate of the Columbia Public Psychiatry Fellowship. He works primarily with homeless and marginalized individuals in the New York City area. He went to the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine for medical school and completed his psychiatry residency training at Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia before moving to NYC, where he gathered an interest in working with homeless populations and individuals interacting with the criminal legal system.

Podcast editor:

Mike Zhang is a third year medical student. He was drawn to community psychiatry because it bridges clinical care with public health and social support, allowing him to work directly with underserved populations. Having lived in diverse places and having seen how community context shapes well-being, he values psychiatry’s potential to address mental health through connection and collaboration. He is especially interested in how preventive and rehabilitative services can improve long-term outcomes for individuals and families.

Social media content creator:

Poyani Bavishi

Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the hosts and guest speakers and are not representative of their employers or affiliated organizations.

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