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ECHO Session 11: Caring for Indigenous and Migrant Populations



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This presentation will explore the role of culture in the care of minoritized populations including migrant and Native peoples. We will differentiate between notions of cultural humility vs. competency, explore the importance of culture in biopsychosocial formulation, rapport building, and treatment planning, incorporating principles of integrative medicine and integrative psychiatry. Utilizing case examples, we will further apply cultural sensitivity and trauma-informed care within an integrative model of care.

At the conclusion of this activity, learners will be able to:  

  • Distinguish between Cultural Humility and Cultural Competency
  • Explore a cultural-ecological whole-person model of care for migrant and/or Indigenous populations
  • Apply a whole-person integrative model of care to migrant and/or Indigenous persons and families

Drs. Yoblonski and Ranjbar have no relevant financial relationships to disclose. AzAAP gratefully acknowledges financial support for this ECHO series from the University of Arizona Department of Psychiatry. 

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ECHO FACILITATOR: Lara Yoblonski, MD, FAAP, MPH, Pediatrician, Phoenix Children’s Hospital, AzAAP Emotional and Behavioral Health Committee Chair's Profile

ECHO FACILITATOR: Lara Yoblonski, MD, FAAP, MPH, Pediatrician, Phoenix Children’s Hospital, AzAAP Emotional and Behavioral Health Committee Chair


Dr. Yoblonski has worked at Phoenix Childrens Hospital in the Homeless Youth Outreach program and the Center for Resiliency and Wellbeing for the past eleven years. She currently works with homeless youth and families, foster children and youth, and survivors of sex trafficking. Trauma informed care is an area of interest due to the patients she works with. She has been working with the AzAAP Emotional and Behavioral Health Committee for the past two years.


ECHO EXPERT FACULTY: Noshene Ranjbar, M.D., Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of Arizona College of Medicine-Tucson's Profile

ECHO EXPERT FACULTY: Noshene Ranjbar, M.D., Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of Arizona College of Medicine-Tucson


Born and raised in Tehran, Iran until immigrating to the US in adolescence, Dr. Noshene Ranjbar developed a passion for a holistic view of medicine and healing from early on in her life. Throughout her studies and life experiences, including her own illness as well as caring for her Mom who suffered from several autoimmune illnesses and cancer, to fostering refugee children with PTSD, to working with American Indian communities across the U.S., she developed a keen interest in approaches to healing trauma and advocating for holistic mental health in empowering, culturally appropriate ways.

 

Dr. Ranjbar completed undergraduate and medical school at the University of Virginia, followed by Family Medicine Internship at Middlesex Hospital/Hartford Hospital, Psychiatry Residency at the University of Arizona-Tucson, and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School. Board Certified in General Psychiatry, Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, and Integrative Medicine, Dr. Ranjbar currently serves as Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Integrative Psychiatry Program at the University of Arizona. She also serves on Faculty with The Center for Mind-Body Medicine, the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine, and the Integrative Psychiatry Institute.

 

Her research focuses on training the next generation of psychiatrists to offer a holistic approach to mental health, while serving children and families most in need. As a Robert Wood Johnson Culture of Health Leader, she is expanding her work in integrative mental health and indigenous mental health nationally and internationally.