Mentor - Ludwing Salamanca, MD, PhD

Dr. Salamanca completed his medical school in Colombia, where he was involved in public health projects with war refugees and underserved communities. After moving to the United States he worked at the New York Psychiatric Institute in research of the epidemiology of substance use and treatment interventions for Hispanic communities. He did his residency training at Mount Sinai Morningside-West and then completed the Columbia University Public Psychiatry Fellowship. During his fellowship and for few years after completing it, Dr. Salamanca worked as a psychiatrist in an integrated medicine and mental health program serving a mostly Hispanic underserved population. Currently, he is core faculty of the public psychiatry fellowship and the collaborative care medical director for an electronic platform supporting behavioral health integration across the US. He additionally participates in different domestic and international initiatives that aim to build the capacity of providers to assess and manage mental health problems, and advocacy efforts to increase access to mental health care, including the fellowship's global mental health track, he co-chairs the New York County Psychiatric Society United Nations committee and is a consultant to the American Psychiatric association council on international psychiatry and global health. His areas of interest are integrated and collaborative care, the use of technology to increase access and facilitate implementation,  and global mental health.