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Emma Lo, MD

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
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Additional Titles

Medical Director, Street Psychiatry Team, Psychiatry

Co-director, Public Psychiatry Track, Psychiatry

Clinical Faculty, Division of Addictions

Clinical Faculty, Adult Psychiatry

Contact Info

Psychiatry

Connecticut Mental Health Center, 34 Park St

New Haven, CT 06511

United States

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Assistant Professor of Psychiatry

Medical Director, Street Psychiatry Team, Psychiatry; Co-director, Public Psychiatry Track, Psychiatry; Clinical Faculty, Division of Addictions; Clinical Faculty, Adult Psychiatry

Biography

Dr. Lo has dedicated her career to working with vulnerable and marginalized populations, specifically focusing on people experiencing homelessness and serious mental illness. She is the founder and Medical Director for the newly established Street Psychiatry Program at the Connecticut Mental Health Center (CMHC). She is actively involved in the Street Medicine Institute, where she serves as a faculty advisor on the Learning and Education Advisory Panel, which supervises the Street Medicine Institute Student Coalition, an international group of medical trainees leading and developing best practices for student-run street medicine programs around the world. She has been invited for multiple internal and external speaking engagements and presented numerous times about her work in Street Psychiatry. Her research interests lie in mental health services implementation, health care access issues for vulnerable populations, medical education in structural competency and social determinants of health, and addressing racial and economic disparities on systemic levels.

Prior to her time at Yale, Dr. Lo worked with a prominent street medicine program in Pittsburgh, PA where she first trained and contributed to the field of street medicine. She then served as a Street Medicine Fellow in Kolkata, India where she worked on quality improvement for a program providing medical care to people living on the streets and slums. During medical school at the University of Rochester, she established and led a new student-run street medicine program which provided medical care, education, and connection to services for people experiencing homelessness in Rochester, NY. She spent a year in rural Uganda training Village Health Workers who brought primary care and health screening to those without access to health centers.


Appointments

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Education & Training

Public Psychiatry Fellow
Yale University (2019)
Residency
Yale University School of Medicine (2019)
MD
University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Medical Humanities Track (2015)
BA
Haverford College, Fine Arts (2008)

Research

Overview

Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

Health Equity; Housing; Ill-Housed Persons; Racism; Social Determinants of Health

Academic Achievements & Community Involvement

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    Learning and Education Advisory Panel

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    Anti-racism Task Force - Community Subcommittee

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    American Association of Community Psychiatrists

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    Street Medicine Institute

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    Doctors for Global Health

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Mailing Address

Psychiatry

Connecticut Mental Health Center, 34 Park St

New Haven, CT 06511

United States