Program Highlight:  
MGH Psychiatry Opens Asian Clinic

To better serve the mental health care need for a growing Asian patient population, Outpatient Psychiatry has opened an Asian mental clinic in the Wang Ambulatory Care Center's 8th floor. The clinic is run by Xiaoduo Fan, MD. If you have Asian patients who need psychiatry referral or consultation, please call 617-724-PSYC (724-7792). MGH (or Partners) patients referred by their PCPs are given priority over non-MGH referrals.

Asian Americans are the fastest growing minority group in the US. However, Asian Americans have the lowest rates of utilization of mental health services among all ethnic populations. This underrepresentation is attributable to stigma over using services, conceptions of health and treatment that differ from those underlying Western medicine, cultural inappropriateness of services, and the use of alternative resources within the Asian American communities.

-From: Broadcast MGH, December 17, 2009.

 

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