The committee is charged with considering policies concerning affirmative action for academic personnel and programs for women and ethnic minorities concerning working conditions, salaries, advancement and separation. Before his appointment as chair Lu, served as a member of the committee for five years including, including one year as chair and two as vice chair.
Lu is the Luke and Grace Kim Endowed Professor in Cultural Psychiatry, director of cultural psychiatry and associate director of the general psychiatry residency training program at the UC Davis School of Medicine. He focuses on reducing mental-health disparities and advancing cultural competency and diversity and psychiatric education, with an emphasis on recruitment and mentorship, and the interface of psychiatry and relation/spirituality, especially through film.
Lu currently works with both the Asian American Center on Disparities Research and the Center for Reducing Health Disparities at UC Davis and has served on the California State Department of Mental Health Cultural Competence Advisory Committee since 1996.
The American Psychiatric Association awarded him the 2001 Kun-Po Soo Award for his work in integrating Asian issues into psychiatry; in 2002, he received a special American Psychiatric Association Presidential Commendation for his work in cross-cultural psychiatry. In 2008, the American Psychiatric Foundation awarded him one of its Advancing Minority Mental Health Awards and the Association for Academic Psychiatry honored him with its Lifetime Achievement in Education Award.
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