2025 Planning Committee
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Tolu Akinade, MD, PhD
Co-Chair
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Angela Ryan Nuñez, MA
Co-Chair
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Marybeth Bohn
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Aqsa Choudhry
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Angela Clack, PsyD
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Alishia Dauterive
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Vimbai Dihwa
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Dominique Dyer MPH, M.S.
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Leah Harmon
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Mariah Hydzik, DO
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Jasmine Graham, PhD
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Maria Iuliano
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Jake Lister, MD
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Abiba Salahou, MD
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Hoda Seens, MD, PhD
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Noa Katz Shroitman, MD
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Aynsley Szczesniak
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Chemyeeka Tumblin, MSPH, LMFT, PMH-C, CD
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Jasmine Raj
Founders
Sofia Noori, MD, MPH
Dr. Sofia Noori is the Chief Resident of Digital Psychiatry and Chief Resident of Quality Improvement at the Yale Department of Psychiatry. She is a founding member of the Center for Digital Psychiatry at the Connecticut Mental Health Center, which aims to integrate digital health in the care of patients with serious mental illness. At Yale she served as the curriculum lead for Innovation to Impact, a substance use entrepreneurship program that helps clinicians commercialize their insights for the public good.
A survivor of sexual assault herself, Dr. Noori is a passionate advocate for women’s mental health and the co-founder of the Women’s Mental Health Conference at Yale. She is also the co-founder of the Yale Women's Housestaff Organization, an organization dedicated to improving the well-being and advancement of self-identified women at Yale.
Dr. Noori is an MD graduate of the PRIME program at UCSF School of Medicine, a dual-degree program that trains emerging physician-leaders to transform care for underserved populations. She received her MPH in health policy and management at UC Berkeley.
Stefanie Gillson, MD
Dr. Stefanie Gillson is a Public Psychiatry Fellow and Chief Resident of Diversity and Inclusion at the Yale Department of Psychiatry. She is an American Psychiatric Association SAMHSA Minority Fellow and a Institute Scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health where she focuses on developing community based initiatives to address mental health disparities among Native Americans through a historical and contemporary lens. She is a member of the Association of American Indian Physicians where she actively recruits Native youth into the medical field.
Aside from her work with Native communities, she is a co-founder of the Women’s Mental Health Conference at Yale and the Yale Women’s Housestaff Organization.
Dr. Gillson graduated from the University of Minnesota Medical School- Duluth campus where her education was focused on rural and Native American health. She is planning on pursuing a Child and Adolescent Fellowship.
Conference Advisors
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Dr. Carmen Black, MD
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Dr. Ismene Petrakis, MD
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Dr. Ariadna Forray, MD
Alumni Committee Members
Alex Rich
Anastasia Eberhardt
Andrea Maxwell
Annie Du
Annika Belzer
Bridget Chen
Cailin Arechiga
Casey Chu, MPH
Chelsea Brett, MPH
Danilo Rojas-Velasquez, MD
Devina Buckshee
Divya Gumudavelly
Emily Gudbranson
Erin Davidowicz, MD *
Francesca Maviglia, MPH
Hannah Duncan
Heva Jasmine Saadatmand, MD, MPH*
Howard Li, MD
India Olchefske, MPH
Jacob Lister, MD/PhD*
Jane Carter, PhD
Katie Roy
Kayla Isaacs, MD
Lily Kofke
Mary Turfah
Maya Deshmukh
Michelle Deloison-Baum
Nardos Kebede
Nat Gwilliam
Natasha Massoudi
Nour Al-muhtasib
Oumou Bah
Paige Farrenkopf
Parmida Zarei, MPH
Rishika Mohanty
Shireen Roy, MPH
Tolu Odebunmi, MD, MPH
Varuna Srinivasan, MBBS, MPH*
Violet Kimble
Wenxin Xu
Whitney Menary, MPH
Zili Zhou
*Previous Conference Chair