Availability of LGBTQ Mental Health Services for US Youth, 2021 to 2020
Assessing Detection of Children With Suicide-Related Emergencies: Evaluation and Development of Computable Phenotyping Approaches
Use of Acute Mental Health Care in U.S. Children’s Hospitals Before and After Statewide COVID-19 School Closure Orders
Dr. Lauren Wisk was awarded a five-year NIMH R01 grant on 5/6/24:
Health Care Transition Utilization and Outcomes for Youth with Mental Health and Developmental Disorders.
National Institute of Mental Health (1R01MH131597-01A1; PI: Wisk, L, Early Career Investigator)
Goal: To examine how health care transition is associated with high care quality and improved mental health outcomes, deepen our understanding of the scope of disparities in transition and downstream outcomes, and generate evidence toward the potential role of health policy for improving access to timely health care transition in the United States.
Dr. Zima selected for UCLA Faculty Mentoring Honorary Society
Dr. Zima has been nominated and selected as a member of the 2024 cohort of the UCLA Faculty Mentoring Honorary Society. Supported by a grant from the University of California Office of the President (UCOP), the Faculty Mentoring Honorary Society recognizes UCLA faculty for excellence in mentoring. The work of mentoring is too often invisible and unrecognized, and the Society honors faculty who have contributed to the professional development of early and mid-career faculty at UCLA, especially the mentorship of underrepresented faculty with respect to identities such as race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, and disability.
This year we are able to induct 12 retiree and full-time ladder faculty members into the UCLA Faculty Mentoring Honorary Society.
We are holding a special celebration at the Faculty Club, Sequoia Room, on April 11, 2024 from 3:30pm – 5:00pm.
Thank you for the wonderful service you have provided to our faculty and for helping to foster a strong and diverse intellectual community at UCLA!
Sincerely,
David K. Yoo, Vice Provost, Institute of American Cultures
Linda Clowers, Director, Research & Bruin Engagement, Office of Equity, Diversity & Inclusion
Robert Chao Romero, Associate Professor, Chicana/o and Central American Studies
Christine Dunkel Schetter, Distinguished Research Professor, Psychology
Dr. Zima receives American Psychiatric Association 2024 Research Mentorship Award
January started with great news; Dr. Bonnie Zima is the recipient of the 2024 Research Mentorship Award from the American Psychiatric Association and Foundation. The Research Mentorship Award, established in 1976, honors an academic psychiatrist who has fostered the pursuit of student research within his/her university department through direct mentorship of individual students or by the promotion of novel research-oriented training activities.
She will be receiving the award in New York City this coming May.
Mental Health Care Lagging for LGBTQ Youth
US News & World Report
The U.S. saw only a small gain over six years in the share of mental health facilities that both serve young people and offer LGBTQ-specific care, according to a new study. https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2023-06-05/mental-health-care-lagging-for-lgbtq-youth-study-suggests
AI models could help improve suicide prevention among children.
Yahoo! News
“Our ability to anticipate which children may have suicidal thoughts or behaviors in the future is not great – a key reason is our field jumped to prediction rather than pausing to figure out if we are actually systematically detecting everyone who is coming in for suicide-related care,” Dr. Juliet Edgcomb, the study’s lead author, said in a UCLA press release. https://uk.news.yahoo.com/ai-models-could-help-improve-124603538.html
Researchers develop machine learning models that could improve suicide-risk prediction among children.
UCLA Health Press Release
New study shows why many predictive algorithms may miss out on children at risk of self-harm. https://www.uclahealth.org/news/researchers-develop-machine-learning-models-could-improve-2
Youth LGBTQ-Specific Mental Health Services Lacking
Physicians Weekly
Just over one in four youth-serving U.S. mental health facilities offered lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (LGBTQ)-specific mental health services in 2020, according to a research letter published online June 5 in JAMA Pediatrics. https://www.physiciansweekly.com/youth-lgbtq-specific-mental-health-services-lacking/
Large multi-hospital study: Adolescent females were especially vulnerable to mental health impact of pandemic-related school closings.
UCLA Health Press Release
Data from 44 hospitals in 26 states show that suicide or self-injury and depressive disorders were the primary mental health reasons children received emergency department (ED) or hospital inpatient care after statewide school closures were enacted during the first part of the COVID-19 pandemic. https://www.uclahealth.org/news/ZimaSchoolClosings2022
Use of Acute Mental Health Care in U.S. Children’s Hospitals Before and After Statewide COVID-19 School Closure Orders
Pages to Practice Podcast
Dr. Bonnie Zima, M.D., M.P.H., joins Dr. Dixon and Dr. Berezin to discuss trends in child emergency department discharges, hospitalization, and mental health care utilization before and after statewide school closure orders due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Meet The First Nurse To Land a Spot on Forbes 30 Under 30 Healthcare
Nurse.org
As both a clinician and a scientist, Dr. Choi maintains a clinical practice as a registered nurse at a psychiatric hospital in downtown Los Angeles. And, she was the first and only nurse included in the US Forbes “30 Under 30” healthcare list in 2020. She was also recently inducted as a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing. https://nurse.org/articles/nurse-kristen-choi-forbes-30-under-30/