Are You Culturally Competent? author Elisa P. Bell, MD brings a variety of perspectives to examining the complex issues of cultural competency facing healthcare professionals across the United States.
A board-certified physician in both adult and child/adolescent psychiatry, she has practiced medicine for 30 years in Illinois, Michigan and Indiana. She has specialized in treating affective disorders, including ADHD, and disruptive behavioral disorders as well as Autism Spectrum Disorders in children and adolescents.
Beginning in 1999, Dr. Bell worked in Illinois’ juvenile justice system, focusing on trauma and post-traumatic stress disorders in child and adolescent populations. Today, she treats convicted adult felons at the north central intake region for the Illinois Department of Corrections.
Dr. Bell served as a consultant on matters of child and adolescent psychology for the Urban Health Initiative Center for Community Health and Vitality at the University of Chicago in 2010. She also wrote the document addressing community mental health issues for The Woodlawn Zone Project and served on the CARC Board at the University of Chicago for ongoing research in the African American Community in Chicago.
A distinguished alumna of Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Dr. Bell completed an internship in pediatrics at Loyola Medical Center in Maywood, Illinois an adult residency in psychiatry at Illinois State Psychiatric Institute, and a fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor.