HHGR with Dr. Damon Tweedy

Join the HHIVE Lab with Dr. Damon Tweedy on Wednesday, October 9 from 4-5pm at Fred Brooks, Room 009 (Sitterson Hall)

Dr. Damon Tweedy is a professor of psychiatry at Duke University School of Medicine and staff physician at the Durham Veteran Affairs Health System. His 2015 book, Black Man in a White Coat, was a New York Times Bestseller, selected by TIME magazine as one of the Top 10 Non-fiction books of that year. His most recent book, Facing the Unseen: The Struggle to Center Mental Health in Medicine, was published earlier this year.

Millions of people suffer from mental health problems, including addiction to alcohol and other drugs, yet the vast majority of doctors receive minimal instruction in treating these conditions during their lengthy medical training. This mismatch ignores the clear overlap between physical and mental distress, and too-often puts psychiatrists on the outside looking in as the medical system continues to fail many patients. Where have we gone wrong, and how can we do better?

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