Meet the Team: Dr. Halimah Hamidu-Egiebor on Using Your Voice as a Community Psychiatrist
About this episode
Dr. Halimah Hamidu-Egiebor discusses her journey and advocacy as a community psychiatrist.
Guest: Halimah Hamidu-Egiebor, MD, MS, MBA is a psychiatry and internal medicine resident physician at the University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics and a host of The Community Psychiatry Podcast. She is passionate about integrated and collaborative care, community psychiatry, and advocating for mental wellness and systemic change. Host: Elise Kao is a first-year psychiatry resident and was a 2024-2025 Community Psychiatry Podcast Manager. Social Media Content Creator: Poyani Bavishi Editor: Daniel Ernesto Carvallo Ruiz comes from Caracas, Venezuela, where he went to Medical School at “Universidad Central de Venezuela - Escuela José María Vargas”. This is where he learned how to truly help disadvantaged and marginalized populations as an MD. With this passion in mind, he was fortunate enough to work as a Research Assistant at Columbia University Department of Psychiatry, and to become a Member in Training of the American Association for Community Psychiatry (AACP), as well as one of the audio editors of their magnificent podcast - The Community Psychiatry Podcast! He is currently a Psychiatry Resident PGY-1 at BronxCare Health System - Mount Sinai, a Residency Program that…
People in this episode
Host: Elise Kao
Guest: Halimah Hamidu-Egiebor
Topics covered
- community psychiatry
- mental wellness
- integrated care
- advocacy
- systemic change
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics, American Association for Community Psychiatry, BronxCare Health System - Mount Sinai, Universidad Central de Venezuela - Escuela José María Vargas
Places: Caracas, Venezuela
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