Georgetown Pediatrics & Family Medicine
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
Joy is a licensed psychologist and host of the popular mental health podcast, Therapy for Black Girls. Her work focuses on making mental health topics more relevant and accessible for Black women and she delights in using pop culture to illustrate psychological concepts. “A
The Clinical Problem Solvers
MARCH 4, 2024
She started in the Narrative Medicine program at Columbia around Sayantani, and wanted to focus on incarceration as a healthcare issue, and has since engaged in work that attempts to decarcerate health care. She came from an activist family, with her mother being one of the first South Asian feminist activists in the country.
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GeriPal
JUNE 19, 2025
This is like, back in 2013, and I joined the faculty at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. And I think a big part of that journey was just having that right time, that right moment, with the right network and support groups of individuals, including my family, to really lift me up and allow me to celebrate my authentic self.
The Clinical Problem Solvers
MAY 2, 2023
A lot of compounding trauma occurs at the border that has potential downstream mental health implications for individuals and their families. She notes she was born in Iran and her family emigrated to Canada and then to the United States just a month before 9/11. 2022 May 28;399(10340):2013. Erratum in: Lancet.
GeriPal
JUNE 2, 2022
Our department chair is always tweeting, and I think there was a fourth shot and then a mild infection in a family member. And to be very fair, there was a study in 2013 in family practice, this would be important, I think for those who treat older patients. So it’s not preventing all infections, even a fourth shot.
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