Author: R. Dakota Carter

Ranna Parekh, M.D., M.P.H., DFAPA, is Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer at the American College of Cardiology in Washington, D.C.; Past Deputy Medical Director and Director of the Division of Diversity and Health Equity at the American Psychiatric Association; and Consultant Psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. Cheryl S. Al-Mateen, M.D., FAACAP, DFAPA, is Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine in Richmond, Virginia. Maria Jose Lisotto, M.D., is Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist at Cambridge Health Alliance and Instructor in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. R. Dakota Carter, M.D., Ed.D., is Child, Adolescent, and Adult Psychiatrist and Chief Medical Officer at Highlands Behavioral Health System in Denver, Colorado.