Kristen Choi, PhD, RN, FAAN is a child/adolescent psychiatric nurse and Associate Professor at the UCLA School of Nursing and UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Department of Health Policy and Management. Dr. Choi’s research aims to improve access to and delivery of mental health care for children, adolescents, and other underserved populations by studying healthcare delivery mechanisms that could be modified to improve population mental well-being. Her work also includes a focus on equity in mental health care and how mental health disparities can be eliminated. Dr. Choi is currently studying household and community adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), including bullying, school violence, and racial discrimination, and their role in youth brain and behavioral development. She is also studying implementation of trauma-informed care in mental health settings, including trauma-informed screening for ACEs. Other projects include research on mental health service access for LGBTQ youth; interventions to address social determinants of health; and equity in health services for autism and other developmental disabilities. She is an Adjunct Investigator in the Department of Research & Evaluation at KPSC and an Associate Director of Nursing for the UCLA National Clinician Scholars Program. As both a clinician and a scientist, Dr. Choi maintains a clinical practice as a registered nurse (RN) at a community psychiatric hospital in Los Angeles.