Profiles

Benjamin K.P. Woo, M.D., (胡啟贇醫生) is Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Asian American Studies at UCLA. He is the Psychiatry Clerkship Director at the Olive View – UCLA Medical Center. Also, he is the faculty advisor for the UCLA Asian Pacific Health Corps (APHC), an undergraduate student organization that promotes health awareness in the Asian communities. Lastly, he serves as the Director at the UCLA Chinese American Health Promotion Laboratory (CAHPL).

Dr. Woo has published many articles addressing mental health care disparities amongst Chinese Americans in the fields of emergency psychiatry and geriatric mental health. For his community work, he has served as a consultant for Victoria Harbor Primary School in Pasadena. Since 2009, he has spoken on 150+ radio shows on mental health topics on the only Cantonese radio station in Los Angeles, KMRB AM1430. He has also produced documentaries and short films with Film Director Jamie Oi Ping Chung (鍾愛萍導演).

He has received many awards and honors for his work and teaching – among others, the Award for Excellence in Education from the UCLA School of Medicine, the Hoshide Distinguished Teaching Prize in Asian American Studies at UCLA, the Advancing Minority Mental Health Award from the American Psychiatric Foundation, and the Roeske Teaching Award from the American Psychiatric Association where he is also a Distinguished Fellow.