Sheryl Kataoka, MD, MSHS
Community Psychiatry Child Trauma and School Systems HSS and Child Psychiatry Faculty skataoka@mednet.ucla.edu 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 her Bachelors of Science at UCLA and medical school at George Washington […]
Ippolytos Kalofonos, MD, PhD, MPH
Ippolytos Kalofonos, MD, PhD, MPH is a practicing psychiatrist and a medical anthropologist. He is jointly appointed as an Assistant Professor in the UCLA Center for Social Medicine and the Humanities the UCLA International Institute as well as the Department of Psychiatry at the West Los Angeles Veterans Administration Medical Center (WLA VAMC). He is […]
Loretta Jones MA, ThD
Community Psychiatry HAAF Partner Charles R Drew Community Faculty lorettajones@haafii.org Loretta Jones M.A. Th.D is the founder and CEO of Healthy African American Families, Phase II (HAAF). As a “Community Gatekeeper”, Loretta Jones has dedicated her entire life towards the hope and healing of community and society-at-large. Her career as a civil rights activist, health […]
Brandon Ito, MD
Dr. Brandon Ito is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. He completed medical school at the UC Irvine School of Medicine, masters degree in public health from the Harvard University School of Public Health, adult residency training at UC San Francisco, and fellowship in child and adolescent […]
Roya Ijadi-Maghsoodi, MD, MSHPM
Dr. Roya Ijadi-Maghsoodi is an Assistant Professor-in-Residence in the UCLA Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences and an Investigator at the Center for the Study of Healthcare Innovation, Implementation & Policy within the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System. Dr. Ijadi-Maghsoodi earned her undergraduate degree in biology from Iowa State University and her medical degree […]
Brian Hurley, MD, MBA, DFASAM
Brian Hurley, MD, MBA, DFASAM is an addiction psychiatrist and a Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health and UCLA Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar. His focus is on integrating addiction treatments into general healthcare settings and building an integrated continuum of care for patients with addictive diseases served by healthcare systems. To this […]
Jonathan Heldt, MD
Jonathan Heldt is the Associate Program Director of Residency Education at the UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior for the program’s VA site. He is a southern California native who grew up in Thousand Oaks. He graduated with a B.S. in Biochemistry from Pacific Union College before getting his M.D. from Loma Linda […]
Helena Hansen, MD, PhD
Helena Hansen, an MD, Ph.D. psychiatrist-anthropologist, is Professor and Interim Chair of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine, and Interim Director of the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior. She is an international leader in the field of social medicine, and of integration of rigorous social science into academic […]
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 […]
Christine Grella, PhD
Christine E. Grella, Ph.D., is Professor-in-Residence in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles and Co-Director of the UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programs (ISAP). She received her doctorate in Social Psychology from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1985. Dr. Grella conducts research on substance use and treatment […]