2024 Planning Committee

  • Erin Davidowicz, MD

    Co-Chair

  • Maria Iuliano

    Maria Iuliano

    Co-Chair

  • Angela Nuñez, MA

    Sessions, Community Outreach

  • Chemyeeka Tumblin, MSPH, LMFT, PMH-C, CD

    Marketing

  • Leah Harmon

    Panels

  • Magdalene Lederer

    Panels

  • Mariah Hydzik

    Social Media & Creative

  • Maya Foster

    Logistics

  • Maya Tawil

    Technology

  • Rachel Johnson

    Fundraising

  • Angel Zhong

  • Hoda Seens, MD, PhD(c)

  • Jasmine Graham, PhD

  • Lauren Kobylski, MPH

  • Marybeth Bohn

  • Mina Ansari, MD, MPH

  • Valerie C. Robinson, PhD, MHA, MBA

Founders

 

Sofia Noori, MD, MPH

Dr. Sofia Noori is the Chief Resident of Digital Psychiatry and Chief Resident of Quality Improvement at the Yale Department of Psychiatry. She is a founding member of the Center for Digital Psychiatry at the Connecticut Mental Health Center, which aims to integrate digital health in the care of patients with serious mental illness. At Yale she served as the curriculum lead for Innovation to Impact, a substance use entrepreneurship program that helps clinicians commercialize their insights for the public good.

A survivor of sexual assault herself, Dr. Noori is a passionate advocate for women’s mental health and the co-founder of the Women’s Mental Health Conference at Yale. She is also the co-founder of the Yale Women's Housestaff Organization, an organization dedicated to improving the well-being and advancement of self-identified women at Yale.

Dr. Noori is an MD graduate of the PRIME program at UCSF School of Medicine, a dual-degree program that trains emerging physician-leaders to transform care for underserved populations. She received her MPH in health policy and management at UC Berkeley.

Stefanie Gillson, MD

Dr. Stefanie Gillson is a Public Psychiatry Fellow and Chief Resident of Diversity and Inclusion at the Yale Department of Psychiatry. She is an American Psychiatric Association SAMHSA Minority Fellow and a Institute Scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health where she focuses on developing community based initiatives to address mental health disparities among Native Americans through a historical and contemporary lens. She is a member of the Association of American Indian Physicians where she actively recruits Native youth into the medical field.

Aside from her work with Native communities, she is a co-founder of the Women’s Mental Health Conference at Yale and the Yale Women’s Housestaff Organization.

Dr. Gillson graduated from the University of Minnesota Medical School- Duluth campus where her education was focused on rural and Native American health. She is planning on pursuing a Child and Adolescent Fellowship.

 

Conference Advisors

  • Dr. Carmen Black, MD

  • Dr. Ismene Petrakis, MD

  • Dr. Ariadna Forray, MD

Alumni Committee Members

Alex Rich

Anastasia Eberhardt

Andrea Maxwell

Annie Du

Annika Belzer

Bridget Chen

Cailin Arechiga

Casey Chu, MPH

Chelsea Brett, MPH

Danilo Rojas-Velasquez, MD

Devina Buckshee

Divya Gumudavelly

Emily Gudbranson

Francesca Maviglia, MPH

Hannah Duncan

Heva Jasmine Saadatmand, MD, MPH

Howard Li, MD

India Olchefske, MPH

Jacob Lister, MD/PhD

Jane Carter, PhD

Katie Roy

Kayla Isaacs, MD

Lily Kofke

Mary Turfah

Maya Deshmukh

Michelle Deloison-Baum

Nardos Kebede

Nat Gwilliam

Natasha Massoudi

Nour Al-muhtasib

Oumou Bah

Paige Farrenkopf

Parmida Zarei, MPH

Rishika Mohanty

Shireen Roy, MPH

Tolu Odebunmi, MD, MPH

Varuna Srinivasan, MBBS, MPH

Violet Kimble

Wenxin Xu

Whitney Menary, MPH

Zili Zhou

*Previous Conference Chair