bill slaughter md

Some background:

I'm a general adult psychiatrist with formal schooling in three traditions:

• Buddhist
• Jungian
• Contemporary allopathic ("Western", "mainstream",
  though globalization makes these terms less correct)
  medicine and related Euro-tradition psychologies

• Board certified. general psychiatry: American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
• Psychiatry resident/psychodynamic therapy fellow:
  Harvard-Medical School-Cambridge Health Alliance (HMS-CHA)
• Analytic training: Boston Jung Institute
• Intern: Seattle Indian Health
• Doctor of Medicine: University of Washington
• Master of Arts: Psychology/Contemplative Psychotherapy, Naropa Institute
• Mediator: Center for Dispute Resolution/Boulder Community Mediation Service
• Massage Practioner: 1984-1988

I've worked in/with (and founded, administered etc) many various health settings, people across the lifespan and ethnicities, and roles (unlicensed, then licensed as mental health counselor, then later as physician): nursing home orderly, pre-school assistant teacher, child/family counselling in-home and office, community clinics, substance abuse, jail, psychiatric and general hospitals, residential homes, adults in relationship (couples, and more), community health system planning/contracting/administration, etc.

Sampling of some invited presentations and community participation:

Through interest in people, languages and the world, I stumbled into close family, friends and colleagues relations across ethnicities, including some schooling on Jewish-Islamic/Middle East Studies and International Relations/Security. In addition to general talk and medication work with patients, I focus on tie-building across challenging ethnic lines--in touch with all, while allocating most of my scarce teaching and advocacy time to communities with less current resources.

• 2020-: Massachusetts Psychiatric Society Antiracism Committee, training planner, discussion leader.
  Anti-Racism Conference Series, I-III: Transforming Psychiatric Practice and Ourselves
• 2020: Vashon-Maury Island (WA) Heritage Association/Puyallup Tribe
  Historic Preservation Department, webinar moderator:
  History of Vashon's First People and the Puyallup Tribe
• 2020: Society for Culture and Social Guidance, Beirut, Lebanon, webinar Panel:
  Coping with Psychological Problems: Pornography
• 2020: American Muslim Health Professionals(AMHP) and Muslim American
  Society, webinar panel:
  "A Multidisciplinary Forum on Mental Health & Physical
  Wellness in the COVID-19 Era"
• 2020: Scientists for Palestine, 3rd International meeting, Masssachusetts Institute of Technology:
  "Healing the Catastrophe and What Followed."
• 2019 AMHP:
  2019 Community Service Award recipient
• 2019: 7th Internationl Mental Health Programme and Human Rights Conference,
  Gaza Community Mental Health Programme (GCMHP), Gaza City, Palestine-Israel:
  "North American supports for Palestinian well-being;"
and community discussion moderator, with E. Amed, MD:
"Opiate treatment-Where does the Strip go from here?"
• 2018- Harvard Medical School (HMS) Office of Diversity, Inclusion and
  Community Partnership Annual Muslim Affiliates Dinner:
  Welcoming remarks
• 2018 US Institute of Peace, WA D.C., 10th annual national Muslim Mental
  Health Conference
  "Gaza: Endless trauma, redux--on redux."
• 2018: 49th Middle East Medical Assembly, American University of
  Beirut/Repeat: United Nations Refugee and Works Agency, Jordan
  Field health leadership team, Amman, Jordan:
  "Weaving the fabric of resilient Levantine wellness: Integrating
  strongest bio-,psycho-, and social threads"
• 2018: US Congressional briefing, panel:
  "Mental Health in the Gaza Strip & Civil Society Response"
• 2018:Video bridge, ad hoc via Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHR-I),
  PsychoActive network, and GHMHP, Ramat HaSharon-Khan Yunis,
  Israel-Palestine, lead organizer:
  "Colleagues' update on mental health conditions in the Gaza Strip"
• 2017: Columbia University, 2nd annual "In Fluency" conference,
  "Psychology Beyond Borders" panel:
  "Palestine."
• 2016 Boston University Medical Anthropology and Cross-Cultural Practice program;
  "BIO/fundamentals-PSYCHO/awareness-SOCIAL/community:
  Cultural Formation of DSM categories"
• 2015 US Congressional briefing, with R.Goldstein (PHR-I) and Y.Abu Jamei MD (GCMHP), panel:
  Open Gaza
• 2015: Red Crescent Society, Gaza City, Palestine-Israel, facilitator/staff trainer:
  Mutual Support for Colleagues Who Survived the War.
• 2015 HMS, Family Medicine Interest Group/Longwood Muslims, with B.'Ali MD:
  "Navigating Cultural Competences in a Diverse Healthcare Space"
• 2014 and also 2015 Harvard Arab Weekend:
  Avincenna Healthcare and Science Networking Reception Featured Guest
• 2014: University of Chicago, Students for Justice in Palestine, panel:
  The politics of Despair: Mental Health in Chicago and Palestine
• 2014 Voice of America television, guest:
  Talking Depression
• 2014: Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center, Islam and
  Psychology Discussion Group:
  "Families, Global South and North"
• 2012-2013 Tufts University Chinese Student Preparation Program, series director:
  Survey of Psychology
• 2011: Sino-American Basic Education Forum, Harvard Center for
  Governmental and International Studies, keynote:
  "Stress, East and West: A Spectrum of Solutions"
• 2009-2015 HMS-Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) Psychiatry and Spirituality seminar:
  "Cross-Cultural Issues and Religious Diversity"
• 2009 HMS-CHA, discussion leader:
  Multicultural Competence Core Seminar
• 2008 GCMHP/World Health Organization
  "Walls and Bridges" conference (Ramallah, Palestine-Israel):
  "Grieving the Castastrophe:
  Acknowledging and healing America's Shadow in Palestine"
• 2008: HMS_CHA Meditation and Psychotherapy conference:
  "Meditation and psychosis"
• 2008- HMS-CHA (2010-with internist B.'Ali MD), seminar leader:
  Decentering Ego: Buddhist and Jungian Clinical Applications
• 2006: Harvard University Mental Health Services, grand rounds:
  "50 Years of Buddhist influence in American mental health."
• 2001: American Association for Laboratory Animal Science:
  "Remembering the Animals: Memorial services for animals used in
  laboratory science."