Understanding
Cultural Differences and Improving Pain Treatment. Presented at the Brown Bag Lecture Series, Randolph Macon Woman's
College, Lynchburg, Virginia, April 11
, 2007
Culture
and Responses to Psychotropic Medications. Presented at the Brown Bag Lecture Series, Randolph Macon Woman's
College, Lynchburg, Virginia, April 4, 2007
Traditional
Healers and Psychiatrists Collaboration in Times of Globalization. Presented
at the Brown Bag Lecture Series, Randolph Macon Woman's College,
Lynchburg, Virginia, March 14
, 2007
Llaqui
in the
Andes
: Exploration of a Quichua Mental Illness Cluster
. Presented
at the Brown Bag Lecture Series, Randolph Macon Woman's College,
Lynchburg, Virginia, February 28
, 2007.
Medical
Contributions of the Indigenous Peoples of South America.
Presented at the Senior
Symposium, Lynchburg College February 12, 2007.
Medical
Contributions of the Indigenous Peoples of
South America
.Presented
at the Public Lecture Series, Randolph Macon Woman's College, Lynchburg,
Virginia, November 15, 2006.
Indigenous
Peoples of
South America
– Inequalities in Mental Health Care. Presented at the
Brown Bag Lecture Series, Randolph Macon Woman's College, Lynchburg,
Virginia, November 29, 2006.
Ethnicity
as a Risk Factor for Poor Pain Management. Presented
at the Brown Bag Lecture Series, Randolph Macon Woman's College,
Lynchburg, Virginia, October 25, 2006.
Psychiatric
Diagnostic Skills of yachactaita (Inca healers). Traditional
Healers. Presented at the Brown Bag Lecture Series, Randolph Macon
Woman's College, Lynchburg, Virginia, October 4, 2006.
Exploring
the Psychiatric
Diagnostic Skills of Yachaitaita (Inca Healers) - Forgotten
Partners in Global Mental Health? Presented at the Culture and Community Mental Health Rounds, Division of
Social & Transcultural Psychiatry and Aboriginal Mental Health
Research Team, McGill University, Canada, June 21, 2006.
Psychiatric
Diagnostic Skills of Yachaitaita (Inca Healers) - Forgotten
Partners in Global Mental Health? Presented at the Integrating Indigenous Visions of Healing into Western
Psychiatry and Medicine Symposium, University of California at San
Francisco, San Francisco, CA, April 29, 2006.
¿Tienen Los Yachactaita
Destrezas Clínicas Para Diagnosticar Desórdenes Psiquiátricos?
Presented at the Indigenous Peoples and Mental
Health Series, Kuntur Samay, Quito, Ecuador, July 13, 2004. To
access a Power Point presentation click HERE
Why Studying Llaqui
Could Improve the U.S.A. Medical Curriculum? Presented
at the NHMA Eighth Annual Conference on Hispanic Health Strategies
Across the Nation, Capitol Hill, Washington DC, March 19-21, 2004.
Traditional
Diagnosis and Healing: Vindicating Yachactaitas (Quichua Healers)
in the Andes. Presented at the Third
Annual "Healing Our Wounded Spirits" Research Conference,
Colville Confederated Tribes, Omak, Washington, April 6-10, 2003.
Llaqui in
the Andes: Exploration of a Quichua Illness Cluster.
Presented at the Native American Research Center for Health Symposium,
University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, February 14, 2003.
LIaqui:
An Exploration of a Quichua Mental Illness Cluster.Presented at the Symposium of the
Transcultural Psychiatry Section, World Psychiatry Association on
Assessment and Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders in Immigrants:
Clinical Issues, XII World Psychiatric Congress of Psychiatry, August
24-29, 2002, Yokohama, Japan.
Are
Yachactaitas (Quichua Healers) Good Diagnosticians? Presented at the 14th Annual Indian Health
Service Research Conference, April 29-May 1, 2002, Albuquerque, New
Mexico.
Working with Yachactaitas
(Quichua Healers) in the Andes: A Case Study.Presented at the Scientific Freedom and
Responsibility Spring Symposium on Ethical Issues in Research Involving
Human Subjects, March 8-9, 2002, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut.
Ethnicity as a Risk Factor
for Poor Pain Management. March 1, 2002.
On the Abilities of Quichua
Healers to Identify Cases in the Community.Presented at the Cultural Issues in Health
course, School of Public Health, Loma Linda University, February 28,
2002. Loma Linda, California.
Are Yachactaitas (Quichua
Healers) Good Diagnosticians? Presented at the Mind, Medicine, and
Culture Meeting at UCLA, February 4, 2002, Los Angeles.
Psychiatric Case
Identification by Quichua Healers (November,
2000)
Llaqui and Depression:
A Quichua (Amerindian) Folk Illness Cluster.
Presented at the 148th American Psychiatric Association
Meeting, Symposium Culture Bound Syndromes, 1995, Miami, Florida.
Culture and
Depression: Some Clinical Lessons from the Quichua's Experience.
Ethnicity &
Psychopharmacology: Implications in Medical Treatment.
The Healers' Contribution to
the Quichuas' Mental Health: An Amerindian Initiative.
