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Lisa Eyler, Chair of the Psychiatry Chair's Advisory Committee on Diversity Issues, was the UCSD-wide faculty honoree for the 2018 Inclusive Excellence Award. Watch the video.
The Champion of Diversity Award is given annually to a Department of Psychiatry faculty member or trainee who has significantly contributed to diversity at UCSD or in the community via research, clinical activities, teaching, or community involvement.
Katherine Nguyen Williams, Ph.D., was selected as the recipient of the Faculty Champion of Diversity Award for 2021.
She is an HS Clinical Professor in our Department and provides clinical services and training in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Rady Children’s Hospital.
Dr. Nguyen Williams was chosen for this award given her commitment to diversity that is woven throughout her career, including her activism and work with low-income, culturally and racially diverse families in San Diego. She specializes in working with children and adolescents with severe psychopathology from multicultural backgrounds. In addition, Katherine is a bilingual/bicultural Vietnamese-American clinician and provides assessment and therapy in Vietnamese to low-income Vietnamese families.
Dr. Nguyen Williams has developed and participated in several clinical programs that serve diverse communities both within and well-beyond San Diego, including an autism assessment program and a pediatric anxiety and OCD program. She is also involved in research and volunteer work that promotes anti-racism, empathy, and compassion. She has provided parenting and mental health awareness seminars to low SES, immigrant, and refugee families and diverse college students.
Katherine is also a member of the Chair’s Committee on Diversity Issues and has served in important ways, including recently providing support to a group of Spanish-speaking parents who were dealing with their children’s anxieties about returning to school during the pandemic. She has served as co-trainer for UCSD's Unconscious Bias Training Team, including conducting trainings for Rady Children's Developmental Services.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Nguyen Williams hosted online community discussions about mental health issues caused by racism and social injustices, and in her Psychology Today parenting blog she has highlighted important topics, such as how to talk to kids about race and racism, supporting transgender youth during the pandemic, and sharing her own story as a refugee during the Vietnam War. Her nominator has expressed that “Dr. Nguyen Williams is a true Champion of Diversity throughout every aspect of her clinical work, community outreach, and volunteering over many years.”
Karen Hanson Bondi, PhD, was selected as the recipient of the Faculty Champion of Diversity Award for 2020.
Dr. Hanson Bondi is a UCSD Health Sciences Associate Clinical Professor and a VA San Diego Healthcare System Clinical Psychologist. As a long-time member of the Diversity Committee, Dr. Hanson Bondi helped to lead efforts to develop a follow-up climate survey for Department faculty. In the past year, her work as part of the Anti-Racism Actions Workgroup’s Clinical Training Subcommittee was particularly notable. She met with trainees, local and national neuropsychology experts, the Joint Doctoral Program neuropsychology faculty/directors, and several other groups in the Department of Psychiatry to develop diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programming, including creating and sharing more training opportunities in diversity for faculty and trainees. Specifically, she asked all of the speakers on all neuropsychology topics to make sure they address diversity in their talks and added an item to the teaching evaluations to rate them on their attention to this request.
Dr. Hanson Bondi revamped the Clinical Neuropsychology Seminar (CNS) to include a lecture on race-based stress, disparities in neurocognitive outcomes in the Latinx community, and LGBTQIA+ considerations in assessment, as well as a focus on diversity readings to accompany lectures. She worked with the California Psychological Association (CPA) Div. 8: Neuropsychology to share the CNS Diversity Series talks more widely and support the CNS Diversity Series by offering honoraria for the diversity speakers. Recordings of these talks are now available on UCSD Dept of Psychiatry website. Her nominator notes that “she is committed to making real and lasting changes in our neuropsychology program and continuing to grow, learn, and evolve her DEI efforts” and “she is committed to making real and lasting changes in our neuropsychology program and continuing to grow, learn, and evolve her DEI efforts.”