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Ravi Chandra, M.D., D.F.A.P.A.— made an award winning film
The Bandaged Place: From AIDS to COVID and Racial Justice
Winner of "Best Film (Festival Director's Award)" at the 2021 Cannes Independent Film Festival!

Grief, rage, identity and meaning are explored in the stories of three Asian American men: psychiatrist/
poet Ravi Chandra, poet/artist Truong Tran, and Jungian psychoanalyst/artist QiRe Ching. From shaman-
istic poetry channeling the dead to deeply riven accounts of our psychological truths, these three come
to insights and reflection that aim to inform a changing world. Rumi wrote "“keep your eyes on the
bandaged place; that is where the light enters you.” This film offers light and hope born from vulnerabil-
ity and compassion.
“The Bandaged Place” is an antidote to our cultural blindness for diverse identities. From the margins
comes a new vision for how society might better center itself for the road ahead.

Anna Glezer, MD— Wrote an E-Book
Starting a Psychiatric Private Practice: A Guidebook for Clinicians.

I wrote this book to encourage more psychiatrists to launch their own private practices, at a time when
many clinicians are leaving the field of medicine due to burn-out and there's a growing number of pa-
tients needing mental health care. In my time as faculty at UCSF, I've supervised and mentored many
residents and recent graduates on how to successfully launch a private practice, and this book was an
outgrowth of that work, as I hope to reach a larger audience. It's about 70 pages of useful information
on every topic from finding a niche, to setting rates, to marketing and expansion, to the details of web-
sites and EMRs, and includes pages of templates for those getting started.

Alyosha Zimm, MD— Wrote and Produced a Play

The core issue of Red Winged Blackbird, the struggle to deal with the 50/50 chance he might inherit
Huntington’s Disease was instrumental in his choice to become a doctor and psychotherapist. Writing
and producing a play is challenging, but he’s always embraced challenges: As Director of Mental Health
for Colusa, a rural county near Sacramento, seeing patients from 3 to 93 and rebuilding a failed mental
health system; as Director of Adult Inpatient Services at Mt Zion Hospital in San Francisco for 5 years;
and as chairperson of Bay Psychiatric Associates for 10 years, a group that does all the inpatient work
for Alta Bates Herrick (Sutter). Since 1976, he’s had an outpatient psychiatric practice in Berkeley.

Henry Massie, MD— Wrote a Novel
The Boy Who Took Marilyn To The Prom
The book is a fictionalized story inspired by some real events which involve boundary crossing in psychi-
atric treatment. It is getting excellent reviews: "A thought-provoking reflection on the dark side of glam-
our..."—Midwest Book Reviews
"...a mesmerizing story...poignantly melancholic and psychologically sophisticated...a sens
tive exploration of the effects of unreconciled sadness."—Kirkus Reviews

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