Psychiatr News December 7, 2007
Volume 42, Number 23, page 32
© 2007 American Psychiatric Association
Information on APA's Election: ABOUT THE CANDIDATES
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CANDIDATES FOR TRUSTEE-AT-LARGEFrancis G. Lu, M.D.
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Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco,
1977-  Chair, APA Council on Minority Mental Health and Health
Disparities, 2002-07 Member, APA Scientific Program Committee,
1992-2000 APA Committee of Asian-American Psychiatrists: Chair,
1990-93; Member, 1987-93 APA Kun-Po Soo Award, 2001 APA
Special Presidential Commendation, 2002 Member, Editorial Board of
Academic Psychiatry, 2005-
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I was born in San Francisco of Chinese immigrant parents in 1949. I grew up
in New Jersey and Maryland and graduated from Columbia College, Dartmouth
Medical School, and the Mt. Sinai (N.Y.) residency program. Since 1977, I have
been an inpatient clinician, educator, and administrator in the UCSF
Department of Psychiatry at San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH). As a
professor of clinical psychiatry, I have recruited, supervised, and mentored a
generation of residents and junior faculty as well as have provided leadership
for cultural competence and diversity at UCSF/UC, the California Department of
Mental Health, SAMHSA Center for Mental Health Services, APA, and other
organizations.
I have presented at every APA Annual Meeting since 1984 and began my
20-year work with APA on the APA Committee of Asian-American Psychiatrists
(1987-1993), which I chaired for three years. As a member of the Scientific
Program Committee (1992 to 2000), I chaired the Media Subcommittee for six
years. I disseminated the DSM-IV Outline for Cultural Formulation by
serving as executive scientific advisor for a 58-minute video, "The
Culture of Emotions," and working to include it in the APA Practice
Guideline for the Psychiatric Evaluation of Adults, Second Edition (2006). I
was awarded the 2001 APA Kun-Po Soo Award for significant contributions toward
understanding the impact of Asian cultural heritage in areas relevant to
psychiatry, and in 2002 I received an APA Special Presidential Commendation
from President Richard Harding for work in cross-cultural psychiatry.
Under five APA presidents from 2002 to 2007, I chaired the APA Council on
Minority Mental Health and Health Disparities, which participated in
developing several APA initiatives: (1) Hiring a full-time director of the
Department of Minority and National Affairs; (2) APA Action Plan for Reducing
Mental Health Disparities; (3) APA's support of affirmative action in the
Supreme Court case Grutter v. University of Michigan; (4) APA
Resource document on Religious/Spiritual Commitments and Psychiatric Practice;
(5) Updating the membership profile form to include languages spoken, greater
specificity of race/ethnicity, and sexual orientation; (6) APA Position
statement against racism and racial discrimination and their adverse impacts
on mental health; (7) APA Position statement in support of legal recognition
of same-sex civil marriage; (8) APA's support of the Language Access in Health
Care Statement of Principles, authored by the National Health Law Program; and
(9) Incorporating cultural and gender issues into the DSM-V
development process.
As a clinician-educator, I have actively participated as a member of three
psychiatric education organizations (AADPRT, AAP, and ADMSEP) as well as GAP,
ACP, AACP, and ABPN. In 1999, UCSF was awarded the American College of
Psychiatrists Creativity in Psychiatric Education Award for the
Ethnic/Minority Psychiatric Inpatient Programs at SFGH, which I began in 1980.
Since 2006, I have served as the Senior Consultant to the Association for
Academic Psychiatry and since 2005, as a member of the Editorial Board of
Academic Psychiatry.
I believe my career experience can help APA meet the following critical
challenges:
- Recruiting and retaining APA members especially from underrepresented
groups, which will help ensure APA's independent financial stability.
- Increasing access to psychiatric care especially for underserved
populations and geographic areas, which is critical both to fighting the
battle against psychologists prescribing and to reducing mental health
disparities.
- Fighting stigma and discrimination against our patients and our
profession.
- Collaborating with allied organizations to advocate for funding for
services, training, and research.
- Embracing the value of excellence through inclusion and diversity in a
multicultural world.
- Inspiring, recruiting, and mentoring the next generation of
psychiatrists.
Primary Professional Activities And Sources of Income
Professional Activities
- 100%—University of California, San Francisco
Income
- 100%—University of California, San Francisco
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