Dr. Roya Ijadi-Maghsoodi is an Assistant Professor-in-Residence in the UCLA Division of Population Behavioral Health, an Associate Research Director of the UCLA/VA Center of Excellence on Veteran Resilience and Recovery, and an Affiliate Investigator at the Center for the Study of Healthcare Innovation, Implementation & Policy within the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System. A child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist, Dr. Ijadi-Maghsoodi is dedicated to addressing social and mental health inequities among under-resourced and minoritized youth, families, and adults, particularly those experiencing homelessness. She received an AACAP NIDA K12 award to adapt and deliver a family resilience intervention for homeless-experienced families in Los Angeles County, conducts community-partnered research evaluating school-based mental health interventions, and has served as an investigator on PCORI-, NIH-, and foundation-funded studies. Dr. Ijadi-Maghsoodi is an attending psychiatrist in the VA Women and Gender Related Psychiatry Clinic, co-directs the VA Family Resilience Clinic, and co-founded and co-directs the UCLA Psychiatry Asylum Clinic. She has received the Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award and a departmental Outstanding Faculty Housestaff Teaching Award. In her free time in Los Angeles, she enjoys beach outings and hikes with her family, and walks with her dog.
Dr. Jeremy Flores is a Health Sciences Assistant Clinical Professor in the Addiction Division of the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He currently serves as Interim Clinical Director of the Addiction Division and Director of the UCLA Addiction Psychiatry Clinic. He joined UCLA faculty in 2024 and served as Behavioral Health and Psychiatric Services Lead for the UCLA Homeless Healthcare Collaborative (HHC) from 2024 to 2026, where he developed a street-based psychiatry program that expanded access to mental health and addiction care for people experiencing homelessness across Los Angeles County. A Geffen Scholar, Dr. Flores completed medical school and his psychiatry residency at UCLA, where he served as Program Chief Resident, followed by a fellowship in Addiction Psychiatry through the UCLA–VA Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship program.
In addition to his leadership roles, Dr. Flores attends on the Addiction Medicine Consult Service and the Psychiatry Consult-Liaison Service at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. He is actively involved in medical education, teaching residents, fellows, and medical students about substance use disorders, street psychiatry, and community-based behavioral health care, and currently serves as Associate Program Director for both the UCLA Public and Community Psychiatry Fellowship and the UCLA-VA Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship.
His interests include addiction psychiatry, public and community psychiatry, social justice, LGBTQIA+ mental health, and medical education, with a focus on advancing equitable, community-based models of behavioral health care.
Dr. Galeano is a Health Sciences Assistant Clinical Professor in the Adult Division of the UCLA Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences. He started his career as a field-based psychiatrist with UCLA’s Homeless Healthcare Collaborative, joining the clinical faculty after completing his residency at UCLA, where he served as one of the program’s Chief Residents and graduated with concentrations in education and community psychiatry. He is a dedicated clinician-educator across the undergraduate and graduate medical education continuum, teaching pre-clinically in the UCLA DGSOM’s Medicine & Society course, directing the Health Equity thread of the psychiatry residency curriculum, and supervising residents in the Spanish-Speaking Psychosocial Clinic and the Division of Population Behavioral Health’s EMPWR Program for LGBTQ+ youth & adults. In addition to his educational roles, he currently works as a teaching hospitalist and attending psychiatrist in the Partial Hospitalization and Intensive Outpatient Programs (PHP/IOP) at the Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital, and also, is the Medical Director of the Aftercare Research Program for First-Episode Psychosis. Prior to moving to Los Angeles, he earned his bachelor’s degree in Anthropology and Latin American & Caribbean Studies from Columbia University, received his MD through the Humanities and Medicine program at Mount Sinai, and pursued further graduate training in Health Policy at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. In Los Angeles, you’re likely to catch him dancing, enjoying a concert, walking his dog, or watching a movie with his partner.
Dr. Sarah Starks is a mental health services researcher with a focus on healthcare outcomes research and health policy for individuals with serious mental illness. She received her undergraduate degree in Public Policy from Stanford in 2001 and her Ph.D. in Health Services from the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health in 2012. She has worked on NIMH-funded and county- contracted client outcomes evaluations in collaboration with DMH since 2006, including studies related to Full Service Partnerships, Assisted Outpatient Treatment, and the use of multi-agency linked county data to study DMH clients’ experiences with incarceration and homelessness. As a past teaching assistant and lab instructor for the core health services research methods courses she supported PhD students and postdoctoral fellows in learning research methods, developing their own research proposals, and planning, carrying out, and interpreting data analyses. She has experience in writing and submitting NIH grants, DMH contract applications, human subjects research protocols (UCLA Institutional Review Board and DMH Human Subjects Research Committee), and requests to the UCLA Technology Development Group to negotiate data use agreements between UCLA and DMH. Sarah lives in Santa Monica with her husband and two teenage daughters. When they aren’t busy with school and extracurricular activities, they enjoy spending time at the beach, camping, exploring LA, going on road trips, and visiting family.
Dr. Stewart is board certified in Adult, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine. She studied English at Stanford University, taught elementary and high school with emergency credentials in San Francisco and New York City then attended Medical School at Columbia P&S. She completed her Adult Psychiatry residency at MGH/McLean then returned to New York City to work at the Bellevue/NYU Program for Survivors of Torture and Consult-Liaison Service. She completed the Columbia University Public Psychiatry fellowship during her first year as an attending and later cofounded the Bellevue Public Psychiatry fellowship. She served as Director of Psychiatry Training for PSOT, traveling to Zimbabwe and Chad to co-author humanitarian reports and develop trainings for delivery of psychosocial services at refugee camps and consulted on Refugee Health Technical Assistance Committee. After moving to LA she trained in Child and Adolescent psychiatry at UCLA. In LA she has worked as the Director of Psychiatry at Venice Family Clinic. She currently works with foster youth and unaccompanied minors at Vista del Mar and unhoused youth at Safe Place for Youth. She lectures on narrative medicine, refugee health and community psychiatry in the UCLA child and adult psychiatry residency programs and co-directs the Asylum Clinic. She completed the Columbia Certificate program in Narrative medicine and collaborates with the USC Narrative Medicine team on workshops and trainings around Los Angeles. She has 3 kids at 3 different schools so is a part-time driver (really). She also still co-owns a restaurant in Brooklyn–Vinegar Hill House–that she started with friends including one who is now her husband.
Dr. Katherine Smith-White is a board-certified psychiatrist in General Psychiatry, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and Addiction Medicine, with additional certification in Perinatal Mental Health. After completing a BA in French at UC Berkeley, she earned her MD at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences. She then completed her residency and fellowship at LAC/USC (now LA General Hospital) and has 18 years of experience working in the Los Angeles County mental health system.
Currently, she serves as Associate Medical Director–Academic Liaison for the Department of Mental Health. She has held leadership roles including Interim Associate Medical Director of Health Access Integration and Associate Medical Director of Child Psychiatry. Dr. Smith-White has extensive experience treating diverse populations with severe mental illness across multiple settings, collaborating with multidisciplinary teams, and working with trainees from various health professions. Fluent in French and competent in Spanish, she is committed to serving individuals and families from varied cultural backgrounds, including those affected by trauma and child welfare involvement, and actively engages in community mental health education and child advocacy efforts.
She is a current member of the American Society of Addiction Medicine and a recent member of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Political Action Committee Child Advocacy Group.
Dr. Enrico Castillo was the Founder of the UCLA Public and Community Psychiatry Fellowship. He is the Medical Director for Clinical Innovations and Strategy for Behavioral Health Services in the San Francisco Department of Public Health and maintains an adjunct faculty appointment at UCLA (https://linktr.ee/enricocastillo). He was previously an Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry in the Center for Social Medicine in the UCLA Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences. As a medical educator, former Associate Director for Residency Education, and UCLA’s former faculty lead for community psychiatry education, he developed nationally recognized residency curricula and a career enrichment pathway to train the next generation of leaders in public service (www.uclacgp.com). Dr. Castillo is dually board certified in psychiatry (ABPN) and in public and community psychiatry (American Association of Community Psychiatrists). He received his MD with a concentration in underserved populations from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and completed his residency and community psychiatry clinical fellowship at Columbia University, focusing on care for unhoused populations. From 2015 to 2021, he served as a psychiatrist within the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health. As a researcher and UCLA faculty member, he has led NIMH K23 and R34 projects on homelessness and incarceration experienced by individuals with serious mental illness.