Freeman Fellows in Social Medicine Named for 1999-00

October 21, 1999

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The Freeman Foundation Chinese and Southeast Asian Fellowship Program, now in its fourth year, seeks to promote cross-cultural exchange and dialogue in the fields of psychiatry and medical anthropology. The three 1999-00 Freeman Foundation Fellows in the Department of Social Medicine at the Medical School come from the People’s Republic of China. They include:

Yang Huaiyu, Institute of Mental Health, First University Hospital, West China University of Medical Sciences, Chendgu, Sichuan. Yang received her medical degree in 1993 from West China University of Medical Sciences. She is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry and a resident on the psychiatric and neurological wards at First University Hospital. As a Freeman Fellow, Yang plans to study the scientific research methods on which social medicine and cultural psychiatry are based. Her most recent work was on the use of rational emotion therapy for patients who suffer from depression associated with stroke.

Sheng Li, Institute of Mental Health, Beijing Medical University. Sheng Li graduated from Beijing Medical University in July 1999. He has been working in the Institute of Mental Health both as a faculty member and as a psychiatrist since 1996. His work has centered on asymptomatic complaints in biological medicine, focusing on unexplained chest pain. Sheng Li will conduct a comparative study of diagnostic criteria used in the Chinese and U.S. mental health systems.

Dominic Lee, Department of Psychiatry, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Lee received his medical degree from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1996. He is an associate professor of psychiatry there. Lee’s main focus is postnatal depression. At Harvard he plans to deepen his knowledge of social medicine and medical anthropology as well as establish cross-cultural collaborations with Harvard faculty.

Also participating in the program, as a Crichton Fund Fellow, is Shigeyuki Eguchi, director of education and research, Tokyo Musashino Hospital, Japan. Eguchi is chief editor of the Japanese Journal of Transcultural Psychiatry and a psychiatrist. His research will be on cultural and ethnographic methodology in psychiatry. Kathy Chan, chief resident in psychiatry, Kwai Chung Hospital of Hospital Authority, Hong Kong, People’s Republic of China, is in the program as an independent fellow. Her main work has been on child psychiatry. She will concentrate on child mental health policy while at Harvard. Sastrowijoto Soenarto is at Harvard on a senior Fulbright scholarship. He is the former dean of the Medical School of Gadjah Mada University (GMU) in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, and is currently director of the Medical Education, Research & Development Unit there. Soenarto’s training and research will support the institution of a bioethics department at GMU.