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Lynn C. Waelde, Ph.D.
Adjunct Clinical Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
BioLynn C. Waelde, Ph.D. is an Adjunct Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine and Professor Emeritus in the Psychology Department at Palo Alto University. Dr. Waelde’s many collaborative publications address the impacts of traumatic events and ways to use mindfulness and meditation to promote resilience and recovery from stress and trauma. She founded and directed the Inner Resources Center which offered intervention groups and trainings to thousands of participants, clients, and therapists over the past 15 years. Dr. Waelde is the author of Mindfulness and Meditation in Trauma Treatment: The Inner Resources for Stress Program, published in 2022. She has taken a special interest in family caregivers and the Inner Resources for Stress program has been named a Best Practice by the Benjamin Rose Institute on Aging. She recently coauthored Family Caregiver Distress, which is forthcoming in 2023. She is on the editorial board of Journal of Traumatic Stress and an Associate Editor of Mindfulness.
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Po Wang
Clinical Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsBipolar Disorders, Psychopharmacology, Treatment, Anticonvulsants, Mood stabilizers
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S Dina Wang-Kraus, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
BioDr. S Dina Wang-Kraus, M.D., is a Board-Certified Adult Psychiatrist, who specializes in Women’s Mental Health and Breastfeeding Medicine. She earned her B.A. from Johns Hopkins University, studying cellular/molecular neuroscience, publishing in the field of neuro-oncology, and working in the field of Child Life for several years. She obtained her M.D. at Stanford University, School of Medicine, during which time, she was awarded a year-long grant to study acculturative family distancing and help-seeking behaviors in youth suicidology, partnering with the CDC and Dr. Shashank Joshi, MD. She completed her residency training at Stanford and her tenure as Chief Resident during the pandemic (2019-2020).
She has numerous scholarly concentrations in psychodynamic psychotherapy, grief and trauma, gender & sexuality exploration, and peripartum and perimenopausal mood disorders. As she is fluent in Mandarin Chinese, she also practices cultural psychiatry. She leads several individual, family, and group therapies for medical students, women-in-sciences, and pregnant/new-mothers to address interpersonal and relational stressors. As a working physician-mother, she is an active writer and advocate for the Physician Moms Group (PMG), a global online network of over 100,000 female physicians supporting women in juggling motherhood, marriage, and medicine.
In clinical care, her practice philosophy is centered upon empowering, co-partnering with, and advocating for her patients to ensure treatment is built around their values and priorities. She utilizes evidenced-based practices with the shared mutual goal of building a more fulfilling life, reducing suffering, and strengthening coping and resiliency.
When not in clinic, she can be found teaching/mentoring medical students and residents, baking French desserts, and mountain biking coastal trails with her family. -
Helen Wilson
Clinical Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
BioDr. Wilson is a licensed clinical psychologist with expertise on the effects of trauma across the lifespan. She provides clinical services for children, adolescents, adults, and families affected by trauma and other forms of anxiety and stress. Dr. Wilson also leads an active research program focused on relationships between childhood trauma and health risk behavior in adolescence and adulthood. She is the Principal Investigator of GIRLTALK: We Talk, a longitudinal study funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) that examines links from childhood violence exposure to dating violence and sexual risk in young women from low-income communities in Chicago. Dr. Wilson has authored or co-authored thirty journal articles and book chapters related to these topics, and she regularly presents her work at local and national conferences. She is on the editorial board of the Journal of Youth and Adolescence.
