The fatal stabbing of a Hartford man last weekend marked a tragic collision of drug addiction and under-treated mental health issues that exploded into violence between a father and son inside a Grafton Street apartment.
By Susan Gonzalez
May 7, 2021
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Top row: Mez Belo-Osagie, Charlotte Finegold; Bottom-row: Tony Liu, Elliot Setzer
Four Yale alumni are among 76 graduate students who have been named 2021 Knight-Hennessy Scholars at Stanford University.
They are Mez Belo-Osagie ’16, a Ph.D. candidate in political science in Stanford’s School of Humanities and Sciences; Charlotte Finegold ’17, who is pursuing a J.D. at Stanford Law School; Tony Liu ’20, a Ph.D. student in bioengineering in the School of Engineering; and Elliot Setzer ’20, also pursuing a J.D. at Stanford Law School.
April 24, 2021
Miriam Delphin-Rittmon, PhD, Associate Professor Adjunct of Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine and Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (DMHAS), has been nominated by President Joe Biden to serve as Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Use with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Delphin-Rittmon faces confirmation in the next six to eight weeks. If confirmed she will lead the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), which works to reduce the impact of substance abuse and mental illness on America’s communities.
Delphin-Rittmon has had several positions at the national and state level. At Yale she maintains a faculty appointment in the Yale Department of Psychiatry and has been Director of Cultural Competence and Health Disparities Research and Consultation at Yale’s Program for Recovery and Community Health (PRCH), which is affiliated with the Connecticut Men
In the tenth episode of “The First Opinion Podcast,” I talk with two physicians who specialize in addiction medicine about “excited delirium,” a topic that has come up several times in the trial of Derek Chauvin, the Minneapolis police officer charged with killing George Floyd by kneeling on his neck for more than nine minutes last May. Jennifer Brody, of Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program, and Ayana Jordan, who works at the Connecticut Mental Health Center, wrote the First Opinion entitled “Excited delirium: valid clinical diagnosis or medicalized racism? Organized medicine needs to take a stand” along with their colleague Sarah Wakeman of Massachusetts General Hospital.
For Hospital Chaplains, Being Vaccinated First Brings a Mix of Emotions
(RNS) Jennie has tried to keep it together, she really has.
Her job demands nothing less. As a hospital chaplain for a Catholic health association in the Midwest, she has spent the past year shouldering the weighty burden of working with COVID-19 patients amid a ruthless pandemic that has taken the lives of more than 300,000 Americans. Sometimes she gets to work with patients on the road to recovery, but with infection rates skyrocketing nationwide, she has too often found herself sitting next to a hospital bed her face obscured by an inhuman visage of mask and face shield softly singing the hymn “It Is Well With My Soul” as a dying patient rattles out a final breath.