Residency Program Directors

Dr Cahill undertook medical school and PhD training in translational health sciences in the UK. At Yale, he completed psychiatry residency and Yale/VA clinical research fellowships in psychopharmacology, psychotic disorders and community mental health. John is board certified in Psychiatry, Addiction Medicine and Clinical Informatics. He serves as deputy medical director at Connecticut Mental Health Center and Chief of Behavioral Health at Continuum of Care Inc. where he helps implement and innovate community-based and -partnered crisis/acute care services. His educational interests include: prescribing & deprescribing skills; principles of ‘knowledge stewardship’; transformative leadership of complex systems; and the integration of multiple perspectives and knowledge sources. He has a background in EEG biomarker development and his current research is in harnessing academic learning health systems for training, continuous quality improvement and discovery.

Dr. Díaz attended Javeriana University in Bogotá, Colombia, and completed Psychiatry residency training at Yale. She graduated from the Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis. As medical director of the Hispanic Clinic and its expansion to the community, mental health services for Limited English proficiency populations are a model. She founded the Hispanic Psychiatry Fellowship addressing mental health disparities in Latinos. Along with residents, she developed the Cultural Psychiatry curriculum, a predecessor of the Social Justice and Health Equity curriculum. Her work with the medical school Teaching and Learning Center addresses cultural sensitivity and microaggressions management training. Using an experiential model, she leads interviewing training for residents. She chairs the evaluation committee to review and revise the Yale Psychiatry evaluation system.

Upon graduating from the Yale Psychiatry Residency program in 2005, Dr. Kang became an attending psychiatrist at the VA Connecticut Healthcare System in the Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Clinic, where she continues to provide care to veterans. Her experience at the VA has also included years of working in residential programs and delivering telepsychiatry services to veterans outside of Connecticut. She is actively involved in the clinical supervision, didactic education and mentoring of Yale residents in a variety of settings at the VA. Her interest in psychiatric education has led to her collaboration in national and local efforts to coordinate virtual educational presentations for clinicians.

Dr. Klingensmith attended University of Rochester SOM and completed psychiatry residency here at Yale. She is an adult psychiatrist and the Physician Lead for Ambulatory Services within the behavioral health service line for the Yale New Haven Hospital. Dr. Klingensmith provides clinical care within the Dialectical Behavioral Therapy Program at the YNHH Intensive Outpatient Program. As an Associate Program Director, Dr. Klingensmith’s work focuses on the support of our residency Clinical and Didactic Curricula.

Dr. Lekwauwa completed her adult psychiatry residency at Yale in 2015, followed by her child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at the Yale Child Study Center in 2017. After training, she spent considerable time providing clinical care to children, teens, and their families in CT as well as leadership to clinical teams within a variety of settings. She is currently the medical director for the YNHH Adolescent Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) where she also manages and coordinates the one-month child and adolescent psychiatry ambulatory rotation in the PGY1 year. She has published in the areas of trauma and religion/spirituality and has specific clinical interests in culturally responsive engagement with marginalized and high-risk patient populations. She is actively involved in clinical supervision and mentoring of residents.