Barbara Wilson Associate Professor of Psychiatry
NYU Grossman School of Medicine , Connecticut
Ayana Jordan, MD, PhD, is an Addiction Psychiatrist and the Barbara Wilson Associate Professor of Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry, at NYU Grossman School of Medicine and Pillar Lead for the Community Engagement in the NYU Langone Institute for Excellence in Health Equity. She is dedicated to creating opportunities for people of color. The message of equity and inclusion has informed her research, clinical work and leadership duties at NYU and beyond. Dr. Jordan was the first Black Associate Program Directors for the Yale Psychiatry Residency, supervising a large group of 64 physicians providing mental health and addiction services throughout Yale medical systems in the state of CT. She recently became Director of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion for the Justice Community Opioid Innovation Network within the National Institute of Drug (Ab)use, where she’ll be working to improve health outcomes for people with opioid use disorder in the carceral system. Dr. Jordan serves the medical director of Recognizing and Eliminating disparities in Addiction through Culturally informed Healthcare or (REACH), a Substance (Ab)use and Mental Health Services Administration grant, in conjunction with the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry, geared at increasing the number of addiction specialists from racial and ethnic minoritized populations who obtain training to provide culturally-informed addiction treatment. Dr. Jordan is an NIH-funded researcher where she studies long term outcomes for providing addiction treatment in faith settings.
She is elated and inspired to exist in an environment supportive of her vision to work with communities, integrating the cultural and religious aspects of people’s lives, while also addressing structural inequities that impede improved mental health and wellness. Dr. Jordan is the proud recipient of various clinical and research awards and was inducted into the Top 40 under 40 society, by her undergraduate alma mater, Hampton University, a historically Black institution.
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Friday, April 1, 2022
1:00 PM – 2:30 PM ET
