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Board of
Directors
LBHI is dedicated
to enhancing behavioral health services to the Latino community in
America. We believe that education empowers consumers, families,
providers, administrators and all other stakeholders of behavioral
health. LBHI conducts a number of learning opportunities to those
groups listed above. Collaboration with others interested in Latino
behavioral health is critical to our mission.
Our Board of
Directors participation in various organizations affirms this
commitment. This includes:
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Ambrose
Rodriguez, President and Founder of LBHI
serves on the
Board of Trustees of the ASHP. LBHI has worked closely with ASHP
in organizing and hosting Hispanic Scientific Psychiatry meetings
in Santa Fe, New Mexico, New Orleans, Louisiana and Philadelphia
Pennsylvania. Currently, LBHI is assisting ASHP in planning its
meeting in San Francisco, California. LBHI has enjoyed a
wonderful collaborative relationship with the current ASHP
President, Pedro Delgado, M.D., of Cleveland Ohio, and its past
president, José Canive, M.D. of Albuquerque, New Mexico, and other
collaborative.
Ambrose was also a member of the organizing committee of the
SAMHSA sponsored Hispanic congress.
The organizing committee of the SAMHSA sponsored "Hispanic
Congreso" defined a national mental health agenda under the
leadership of Rosa M. Gil, Ph.D. of New York and Josie Romero,
M.S.W., of California. |
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Alex
Kopelowicz, M.D., Vice President of LBHI is on the board of the National Hispanic Science Network (NHSN).
The NHSN is under the leadership of Jose Szapocznik, Ph.D. of
Florida, and promises to be a rich source of information on Latino
behavioral health care. Dr. Kopelowicz is also a member of The
Executive Board of Director's of the American Society of Hispanic
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Sergio
Aguilar-Gaxiola, M.D., Ph.D. is a Professor in the
Department of Psychology at California State University, Fresno.
He trained both as Medical Doctor at the Autonomous University of
Guadalajara in Mexico (1977) and obtained a Doctoral Degree
(Ph.D.) in Clinical-Community Psychology at Vanderbilt University
in the United States (1986). He did post doctoral studies in
clinical and health services research at the University of
California, San Francisco I the United Stated (1987). He is the
on-site Principal Investigator of the Mexican American Prevalence
and Services Survey (MAPSS), the largest mental health study
conducted in the U.S. on Mexican Americans. He is also the
Coordinator for Latin America and the Caribbean of the World
Health Organization’s (WYO) World Mental Health (WMH) project that
entails conducting general population epidemiologic surveys of
mental, substance use, and behavioral disorders in over 20
countries worldwide. His research deals with minority mental
health (e.g., prevalence of mental disorders, risk and protective
factors, mental health service utilization patterns, access to
care, and treatment outcome), cross-national comparative
epidemiologic research on patterns and correlates of psychiatric
disorders in general population samples, and applications of
standardized psychiatric diagnostic instruments. He is on the
Editorial Board for the World Health Organization’s (WHO)
Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI). He is a
member of the World Health Organization’s International,
Consortium in Psychiatric Epidemiology (ICPE) and the WHO’s
International Classification of Functioning (ICF, formerly called
ICIDH-2) Spanish-speaking Network on Disabilities (Red de Habla y
Cultura Hispana en Discapacidades; RHHD). He is also a Quality
Assurance Advisor of WHO’s World Health Surveys. |
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MaJose
Carrasco is the Outreach Director of the NAMI
Multicultural and International Outreach center. As Outreach
Director, Maria Jose organized NAMI’s first ever Latino Leadership
Symposium, co-authored NAMI’s Latino Outreach Research Manual, is
managing NAMI’s National Latino Outreach Campaign, and is
developing effective partnerships and coalitions with other Latino
healthcare advocacy organizations. She has written, edited, and
coordinated all organization-wide efforts to develop
Spanish-language and culturally competent materials. |
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Javier
I. Escobar, M.D. is Professor and Chairman at the UMDNJ-Robert
Wood Johnson Medical School in New Jersey.
Dr. Escobar
has had a number of relevant national and international
assignments.
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Member of
the search committee that selected the new director of the
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH).
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Member of
NIMH’s National Advisory Mental Health Council, and led the
council workgroup that prepared NIMH’s report on Racial/Ethnic
Diversity in Research Training and Health Disparities Research
in 2001.
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Advisor to
the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva and Co-Director of
the North American WHO Collaborating Centers at Farmington and
St. Louis.
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Member of
the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Advisory Committee on
Psychiatric Drugs in Washington DC, and also in Washington, he
has served as standing member in several National Institute of
Health (NIMH, NIDA, NIA) and Veterans Administration’s research
review committees and other national task forces.
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He is
currently President Elect of the American Society of Hispanic
Psychiatry.
Dr.
Escobar has been an active researcher in the areas of clinical
psychopharmacology, psychiatric epidemiology, psychiatric
diagnosis and cross-cultural medicine and psychiatry. Currently
he is the Principal Investigator of several projects funded by the
National Institute of Mental Health in the areas of Treatment of
Somatoform Disorders, Epidemiology of Mental Disorders and
development and mentoring of new psychiatric researchers. |
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Pablo
Hernandez, M.D. has been the Hospital Administrator at the
Wyoming State Hospital since 1995. On June 1, 1997 he was
appointed as the Behavioral Health Division Administrator (now
known as the Mental Health Division) for the Wyoming Department of
Health, which encompasses the State Hospital and the State’s
community programs. |
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Sylvia
Rodriguez Andrews JD, MSW, Ph.D. is Dean of the College
of Social Work at San Jose State University. She received her law
degree at Lincoln Law School in San Jose, her doctorate from the
University of Texas at Austin and her master's degree at Our Lady
of the Lake University at San Antonio. Her very successful career
in higher education, administration and management, research,
grant writing, and program evaluation as well as political
appointments was well developed in Texas before relocating to San
Jose, California in 1994. Her extended list of publications is
impressive. She developed a broad range of expertise in such areas
as high‑risk children and their families, elder nutrition,
substance abuse, adult life cycle among migrant farm workers, and
women's lifestyle.
Her
high‑level professional activities included membership on an
editorial board, the Advisory Committee of the Hispanic Research
Center in San Antonio, the Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug
Abuse, and the High‑Risk Adolescents and AIDS Project. Her
important community activities in Texas are now matched by those
in California: the Avanti! Foundation board member in Fremont,
Gardner Health Center in San Jose, and United Way of Santa Clara
County.
In addition
to her many awards received in Texas, she was named the
Outstanding Graduate in 2001 of Lincoln Law School, the Social
Worker of the Year in 1999 by Region 9 of the National Association
of Social Workers and her receipt of the Tribute to Women and
Industry Award in 1998 by the Young Women's Christian Association
of San Jose.
Dr. Sylvia
Rodriguez Andrew was a principal speaker at the 2002 annual
conference of the Latino Social Work Network. She spoke on "The
Legacy of Latino Social Workers: Keeping the Promise". |
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Tuesday, July 8, 2008.
