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Francis G. Lu, MD, is the Luke & Grace Kim Professor in Cultural Psychiatry,
Emeritus, at the University of California, Davis. As a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association (APA), Dr. Lu has contributed to the areas of cultural psychiatry, psychiatric education especially mentoring and career development, film and psychiatry, and psychiatry/religion/spirituality. He has presented at every APA Annual Meeting since 1984. Since 1993, he has been a member of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry (GAP) Cultural Psychiatry Committee. In 2008, the American Psychiatric Foundation awarded him one of its Advancing Minority Mental Health Awards and the Association for Academic Psychiatry awarded him its Lifetime Achievement Award. At the 2016 APA Annual Meeting, President Renee Binder presented him with a Special Presidential Commendation “for extraordinary leadership and outstanding contributions to the field of cultural psychiatry.” Since 1987, he has led/co-led 35 film seminars at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, CA.
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