Miyun Kang, MD, and Ruby Lekwauwa, MD, have been appointed associate program directors for the Yale Psychiatry Residency Program. Both will begin their new roles December 1, 2022.
Kang is an experienced and dedicated educator and an expert in the management of PTSD, who is based at the VA Connecticut Healthcare System. She graduated from medical school at the University of California, Davis. After finishing an internship in internal medicine in Santa Barbara, California, she shifted her career toward psychiatry and joined Yale to complete her adult psychiatry residency from 2002-2005. During residency she served in leadership roles in both the Psychiatry Residents’ Association and as a class representative to the Graduate Education Committee.
In 2005 she joined the faculty of the VA Connecticut Healthcare System and of the Yale Psychiatry Department. During her career she has deepened her knowledge and clinical expertise caring for veterans with PTSD by serving as an attending in the VA PTSD clinic and for the VA PTSD residential treatment program and providing telepsychiatry services to veterans in the Northeast with limited access to psychiatric services. She has served in leadership roles for multiple regional and national VA educational initiatives, including the ECHO seminar series and the Schwartz Center Rounds.
During her tenure at the VA, she has been extensively involved in resident education through supervision of residents in the outpatient clinics, mentorship of individual residents and teaching in site-specific didactics. She has presented in the areas of psychological aspects of the COVID pandemic, compassionate care, and racial trauma.
Lekwauwa is an experienced expert in child and adolescent psychiatry who has served as a clinical leader and has been highly engaged in residency training. She graduated from medical school at Duke University in 2011 and joined Yale to complete the adult psychiatry residency from 2011-2015. During her residency she received both the AACAP Annual Meeting Junior Scholar Award and was selected for the APA Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship.
Following her adult training, she went on to complete a child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at the Yale Child Study Center from 2015-2017, where she was named Chief Fellow in 2016. After completing fellowship, she worked as Director of Psychiatric Services at UConn Counseling and Mental Health Services, before returning to Yale to join our faculty and assume the role as the Medical Director of the YNHH Branford Adolescent Day Hospital.
Since returning to Yale, she has been instrumental in the development of the Branford Adolescent Day Hospital as a clinical rotation site for our residents and has been extensively involved in the residency through her supervision and mentorship of residents, assessment of core clinical skills education and participation in our residency’s recruitment efforts. She has presented and published in the areas of child and adolescent psychiatry, trauma, and the intersection between religion/spirituality and mental health in marginalized populations.