Most agree mental health issues aren't addressed as well as physical health issues. How did we get here? And how can we do better? Thanks to @AAMCtoday for publishing my essay tackling these questions by looking at how doctors are trained and practice.

Wishing everyone a great holiday season and a good start to 2025. Thanks for your support.

Earlier this week, @wunc re-aired my May 2024 interview on its show "Due South". We talked about what led me to write both of my books, and a lot more. Initial plan was for short interview, but we enjoyed ourselves too much for that!

Link for my C20 interview discussing the context for primary care and mental health integration. Interview starts about 4 minutes into the episode.

This week I appeared on the national VA program C20, where I had a 15-minute discussion about the challenges to integrating physical and mental health. Interview starts about 4 minutes into the episode. 384 - One Mind, One Body: How Primary Care is Embracing Mental Health

RT @UMBC_MBB: Great to have UMBC MBB Alum @DamonTweedyMD on campus today!

While I was in town, walked over to @YaleLawSch where I graduated in 2003. It's amazing to think how this school produces such influential people on opposite sides of politics (Bill Clinton and JD Vance), and the law (Sonia Sotomayor and Samuel Alito).

Had a great visit yesterday at @YaleMed giving a lecture to @YaleMedHum about my most recent book "Facing the Unseen". Met several medical students and young doctors who told me my writings encouraged them to enter medicine. So honored.

That means that those in power were willing to grant voting rights to former slaves for a half-century before they granted the same voting rights to their wives, sisters, and daughters. That's remains an astounding historical fact.

Consider this fact: the 15th amendment granted the right to former enslaved Black men to vote in 1870 but the 19th amendment giving women the right to vote didn't happen until 50 years later in 1920.

While circumstances varied some with each election, I don't think it's any coincidence that Donald Trump lost to Joe Biden but won against Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris.

Thanks to @OhioStateDHLRI and @OhioStateMed for hosting me on Friday. I had a great series of conversations with faculty and staff. But I always enjoy talking with students the most, as they keep this 50-yr-old feeling a bit younger and a bit better about the future.

Earlier this month, I was a guest on the Holderness Family Podcast for a wide-ranging discussion about ADHD, psychiatry, race, and my own ADHD tendencies.

RT @UNCPharmacy: Thank you to @DamonTweedyMD for joining us for a guest lecture and book signing today! We had a great time learning from y…

RT @patientaccess: “Every area of medicine needs a layer of mental health care support.” @DamonTweedyMD highlights the importance of an i…

Hi everyone - please check out this article I published in @AAMCtoday describing a project I've been working on at Duke the past few years looking at the intersection of race and medicine through the lens of history.

RT @DukePsychiatry: Great opportunity to hear ⁦@DamonTweedyMD⁩ of Duke Psychiatry and ⁦@vadurham⁩ talk at ⁦@DukeMedSchool⁩ about his path a…

Thanks to @UCSFMedicine and @UCSFPsychiatry for hosting me last week. In addition to giving two formal presentations about the intersections of mental health, race and medicine, I also had the chance to engage with current medical students.

Many thanks to Columbia @NarrativeMed for hosting me earlier this week to discuss "Facing the Unseen". Their program started in 2001 at the time I was just starting to think about medical writing, never imagining then that our paths would cross.