Nastassia Hajal, PhD
Dr. Nastassia Hajal is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the UCLA Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences in the David Geffen School of Medicine and the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior. Dr. Hajal is a child clinical psychologist whose primary interests are in parenting and young children’s emotional development in the context of […]
Pritha Gupta, MD, PhD
Pritha Gupta is a Cardiologist at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine. She received her medical degree from the New York University (NYU) School of Medicine, and completed her internal medicine residency at the University of Washington in Seattle. She completed a fellowship in cardiology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, […]
Cristopher Espino
Cristopher Espino is a third-year student double-majoring in Political Science and Education & Social Transformation Studies. He is the current Academic Affairs Commissioner within UCLA’s Undergraduate Student Association Council, representing over 30,000 students. Cristopher manages all facets of academic affairs, stewarding a substantial budget and orchestrating programs and initiatives aimed at advancing academic equity, particularly […]
Jacky Duong, BA
Jacky Duong holds a B.A. in Psychology, which she earned from the University of California, Berkeley. Jacky serves as a Part-time Administrative Assistant at Dr. Eraka Bath’s lab at UCLA, where she is actively involved in projects related to JEDI (Justice, Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion). Outside of work, Jacky dedicates her time as a UX […]
Amira Collison, MD
Amira Collison (she/her) is a 2nd-year Psychiatry resident at the UCLA Semel Institute of Neuroscience. She spent her formative years in Maryland and Chicago and knew from an early age that addressing health and educational inequities amongst minoritized groups was her calling. She graduated from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, where she spent a lot […]
Tashalee Brown, MD, PhD
Tashalee R. Brown, M.D., Ph.D. is a second year Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellow at UCLA. She received her B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University and her M.D., Ph.D. from the Weill Cornell/Rockefeller/Sloan Kettering Tri–Institutional MD–PhD Program. She is currently AACAP’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Emerging Leaders Fellow, an APA/SAMHSA Minority Fellow, and an AACAP Pilot […]
Emily Bell, LCSW
Emily is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and serves as the Division Director of SSG Project 180, a prominent health and human services organization based in Los Angeles. In this capacity, she oversees a diverse portfolio of over 10 alternative-to-incarceration programs tailored for justice-involved individuals with behavioral health needs. Under her leadership, Emily has significantly […]
Eraka Bath, MD
(Committee Chair)
Eraka Bath, M.D., is a Professor in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and the Vice Chair for Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute in the David Geffen School of Medicine. She is board certified in child and adolescent, adult and forensic psychiatry. Dr. Bath obtained her undergraduate degree at […]