J. David Kinzie, M.D.

2007 Kun-Po Soo Award Recipient

Lecture Title: What We Have Learned from Asian Trauma: Thirty Years Experience with Refugees

Dr. Kinzie is Professor of Psychiatry at Oregon Health and Science University and originated the Intercultural Psychiatric Program in 1977.  After medical school at the University of Washington he was a general physician in Vietnam and Malaysia, and after residency, also at the University of Washington, taught psychiatry at the University of Malaya School of Medicine. He was also a transcultural fellow at the University of Hawaii affiliated program and later taught for five years in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Hawaii Medical School. He is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a Fellow of the American College of Psychiatrists. He serves on the Steering Committee of the Transcultural Section of the World Psychiatric Association.