Emma Lo, MD
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Appointments
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
Appointments
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
Appointments
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
About
Titles
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Medical Director, Street Psychiatry Team, Psychiatry; Co-director, Public Psychiatry Track, Psychiatry; Clinical Faculty, Division of Addictions; Clinical Faculty, Adult PsychiatryBiography
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
Psychiatry
Assistant ProfessorPrimary
Other Departments & Organizations
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)
ORCID
0000-0001-5253-5523
Research at a Glance
Publications Timeline
Publications
Addressing challenges in prescribing for vulnerable unsheltered homeless populations with mental illness
Balasuriya L, Buelt E, Bruneau W, Lo E. Addressing challenges in prescribing for vulnerable unsheltered homeless populations with mental illness. Journal Of Social Distress And The Homeless 2020, 30: 135-140. DOI: 10.1080/10530789.2020.1774732.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetricConceptsMental illnessUnique barriersComplexity of regimensSide effect profileType of medicationVulnerable populationsSerious mental illnessHomeless individualsSuccessful prescribingThoughtful prescribingModality of deliveryMedication adherencePsychiatric comorbidityHomeless populationTreatment successMedicationsSocial determinantsVulnerable subpopulationsIllnessUnreliable transportationPrescribingCliniciansTreatmentLack of accessAdherence
Academic Achievements and Community Involvement
activity Advisor, Learning and Education Advisory Panel
Advisory BoardsStreet Medicine Institute Student CoalitionDetails07/01/2018 - PresentDescriptionSupervise students serving on international panel to assist other students in starting and improving their own street medicine programs, provide webinars and journal club materialactivity Member
CommitteesAnti-racism Task Force - Community SubcommitteeDetails02/01/2021 - PresentDescriptionMulti-disciplinary task force to address racial disparities on the community levelactivity Member
Professional OrganizationsAmerican Association of Community PsychiatristsDetails2018 - Presentactivity Member
Professional OrganizationsStreet Medicine InstituteDetails2008 - Presentactivity Member
Professional OrganizationsDoctors for Global HealthDetails2009 - Present
Links & Media
News
- June 21, 2024
Department of Psychiatry Honors Residents, Fellows, Faculty, Staff at 2024 Annual Commencement Ceremonies
- December 05, 2023Source: Rochester Medicine
What the Streets Teach
- November 06, 2022Source: Psychiatric Quarterly
Does Street Outreach Engage Its Intended Target Population? Clinical Experience in the Veteran’s Health Administration Homeless Service Programs
- October 18, 2022Source: Psychiatric Services
Low-Barrier Buprenorphine Treatment for People Experiencing Homelessness
Get In Touch
Contacts
Psychiatry
Connecticut Mental Health Center, 34 Park St
New Haven, CT 06511
United States