On behalf of faculty, staff, students and trainees, welcome to the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences website. The department’s vision is to become an innovative global leader in discovery, training and clinical care. We encompass a broad array of deeply committed people, different professional expertise, varied clinical sites, comprehensive research endeavors and multiple training experiences.
Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging
The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences welcomes, respects and celebrates the multiple dimensions of diversity that each member of our community offers, including age, sex and gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, race, ethnicity, indigenous background, culture, national origin, language, religious beliefs, spiritual orientation, ability and disability, neurodiversity, socioeconomic circumstamce, education, veteran status, political ideology, professional interests and other cultural and professional dimensions. We embrace intersectionalities among these cultural and professional dimensions and believe the energy that results from such diversity empowers us to broaden our perspectives to optimally learn, grow, advance knowledge, care for patients and address pressing societal challenges. We expect all members of our community to contribute to creating a welcoming and respectfully inclusive environment, nurture our diverse community of individuals, conduct themselves in a manner that reflects cultural responsiveness and cultural humility, reject all forms of prejudice and discrimination and equity and social justice.
