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 […]
Christopher Evans, PhD
Dr Christopher J. Evans is Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and holds the Stefan Hatos Chair for Neuropharmacology. He received his BSc from the Polytechnic of Central London in 1976 and his PhD from the Medical Research Council Institute and Imperial College in London. […]
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 […]
Mirella Diaz Santos, PhD
Mirella Díaz-Santos, PhD is Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the David Geffen School of Medicine, Director of Research of the Hispanic Neuropsychiatric Center of Excellence at Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, and Research Psychologist at the Mary S. Easton Center for Alzheimer’s Disease Research. By training, […]
Jennifer Cohenmehr, MD, MPH
Jennifer Cohenmehr, MD, MPH, is a 4th-year Psychiatry resident at the UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience. Dr. Cohenmehr earned her medical degree from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and her master’s degree from the Fielding School of Public Health at UCLA. While in medical school, Dr. Cohenmehr created the organization Companion Care […]
Enrico Castillo, MD, MS (Committee Co-Chair)
Dr. Enrico Castillo is an Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry. He is an academic community psychiatrist, health services researcher, and medical educator in the UCLA Center for Social Medicine and the Associate Vice Chair for Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in the UCLA Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences. He is also an affiliated faculty member […]
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 […]