Preston Igwe, MD
Preston Igwe is a PGY-2 in the UCLA Psychiatry Adult Residency Training Program. He was born in Nigeria and raised in southwest Houston, TX, both places that have immensely shaped his identity and outlook on the world. He graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a BA in Sociology and Pre-Health. While at Notre […]
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 […]
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. […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 an Associate 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 […]