Prior to the current position at RAMS, he served on the management team of the Department of Psychiatry at San Francisco General Hospital for eight years and was also the Co-Chair of the Cultural Consultation Service and Co-Director of the Psychopharmacology Seminar & Clinical Case Conference Series. Additionally, he served on the Adjunct Faculty with the Graduate Psychology Program at New College of California and has taught at UC Berkeley Extension. He has traveled to Southeast Asia and other countries as an invited volunteer healthcare professional with Doctor to Doctor organization participating in educational conferences and providing assistance to other healthcare professionals in underserved places around the world.

He has been a clinician, administrator, and teacher, and is known locally, nationally, and internationally for his expertise in clinical cultural competence, group psychotherapy and facilitation, psychosocial rehabilitation, organizational development, and outcome-oriented practice in psychotherapy. Furthermore, his areas of interest include working with the culturally diverse and seriously mentally ill population, psychoanalytic theory and practice, applied psychoanalysis, and training on case formulation, treatment planning & clinical documentation.

Chief Financial Officer - Ken Choi, MBA, CPA, CMA
Mr. Choi has over 17 years of hands-on and management experience and expertise in accounting, finance, and system administration in not-for-profit healthcare organizations. Mr. Choi is recognized for consistently demonstrating diligence, effective leadership style, management competence, and cooperative efforts with internal personnel and external partners. Most recently, he was the Fiscal Officer at On Lok SeniorHealth, a community-based program of all-inclusive care for the elderly. He has also served as a Senior Technical Financial Consultant at Kaiser Permanente, a Decision Support Analyst at Catholic Healthcare West, and the Accounting Manager at Davies Medical Center.   

Mr. Choi holds an MBA in Accounting, is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), a Certified Management Accountant (CMA), an IRS Enrolled Agent (EA), and is a member of the Healthcare Financial Management Association. Additionally, Mr. Choi is a long-standing resident of San Francisco and is bilingual in Cantonese.  He is highly committed to community-based healthcare programs and services and is extremely familiar with the healthcare and community issues that impact the client population that RAMS serves. 

Deputy Chief/Director of Clinical Services - Christina Shea, LMFT
Christina Shea is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and has been working in the mental health field for over twenty years.  She also currently serves on the San Francisco Mental Health Services Act Advisory Committee. Prior to her appointment as Deputy Chief/Director of Clinical Services at RAMS, Ms. Shea served in the role of Director of Child, Youth & Family Services for three years providing leadership and effective clinical, administrative, and fiscal management for the department.  During her tenure, the RAMS Child, Youth & Family Services has enhanced its service capacity to meet the ever-changing needs of the community, while strengthening funding sources.  Ms. Shea has further developed and sustained strong partnerships with community organizations and public agencies leading to the expansion of our school-based services and outreach efforts.  Prior to that, for six years she had also been instrumental in the successful planning, implementation, and management of the RAMS Fu Yau Project (collaborative project with Chinatown Child Development Center, Child, Youth and Family System of Care, CBHS-SFDPH); a prevention & early intervention mental health services program for the childcare community, which has grown dramatically since its inception.  Ms. Shea has had experience in providing services in a variety of settings and roles, including social worker, child development specialist, and head teacher.  As a clinical social worker, she provided long-term treatment and case management services to chronically mentally ill adults, which led to higher levels of functioning.  She also successfully developed, planned, and facilitated adult rehabilitative groups in their native languages. 

As a first-generation immigrant from Hong Kong and mother of two children, Ms. Shea is personally and professionally aware of the assimilation, acculturation, and developmental issues that are prevalent in the population in which RAMS serves.  She is a strong advocate for the underserved communities, continuously raises awareness about mental health issues, diligently works on efforts to address barriers of access to services, and is passionate in mentoring and promoting the next generation of bilingual and bicultural clinicians.  She brings a wealth of experience and expertise in providing culturally competent and consumer-driven mental health services to the community, with a unique specialty in working with the Asian & Pacific Islander American population.  Ms. Shea is also regularly sought-after by the community, including various media, to provide expert commentary on mental health issues and related current events.   

Ms. Shea has worked with diverse populations - African Americans, Asian Americans, Chinese immigrants and refugees from South East Asia, China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, severely emotional disabled adults, adolescents, children, and families.  She is especially passionate in serving the low income and underserved young children and families.  Ms. Shea integrates psychodynamic, systems, and behavioral theories in her clinical approach.  She is especially interested in group dynamics and play therapy.

Director of Adult Outpatient Services Clinic - Sachi Inoue, PhD
Dr. Sachi Inoue is a bilingual & bicultural licensed clinical psychologist, who has been serving culturally & linguistically diverse clients in community settings in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1990.  She is committed to and advocates for providing culturally sensitive and linguistically appropriate services to the underserved communities.  Dr. Inoue will begin her candidacy in analytic training at San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis in September 2008. It is her commitment to creating a bridge between the psychoanalytic community and public mental health arena so that analytic treatment can be more accessible for broader populations and analytically trained clinicians can provide high quality services to community mental health clients.  Prior to joining RAMS as the Director of Adult Outpatient Services Clinic, Dr. Inoue worked at Asian Community Mental Health Services for five years as a Clinical Supervisor providing direct services, clinical training, program management, and quality care assurance.  She was also a Project Coordinator at California School of Professional Psychology in Alameda (CSPP-Alameda) and had conducted a needs assessment focusing on relationship abuse among teenagers as well as program evaluations for domestic violence shelters and prevention agencies.  Additionally Dr. Inoue has taught as an adjunct faculty at CSPP-Alameda and served on the dissertation committee for graduate students.  She maintains a private practice in Berkeley and San Francisco where she provides psychotherapy and consultation for adults and families.

Dr. Inoue received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from CSPP-Alameda, and was a former pre-doctoral intern of the National Asian American Psychology Training Center at RAMS.  Dr. Inoue obtained a M.S. degree in Counseling, with an emphasis on Marriage, Family, & Child Counseling from San Francisco State University.  She also received a Master of Fine Arts degree in Textiles from the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland.  Originally from Japan, Dr. Inoue received her bachelor's degree in product design from Musashino Art University in Tokyo.

Director of Asian Family Institute - Eddie Chiu, PhD - Supervisor for Staff
Dr. Eddie Yu-Wai Chiu received his Ph.D. from California School of Professional Psychology, Los Angeles.  He is a licensed Chinese American psychologist with many years of clinical experience working with culturally diverse mental health consumers.  Dr. Chiu has been the Director of Asian Family Institute (AFI) since 1998, and previously the Director of the Adult Outpatient Clinic as well. Under his leadership, AFI has flourished to become a highly respected clinic providing culturally competent psychological services for Chinese and other Asian ethnic minority populations in the Bay Area, while expanding its services to include the Problem Gambling Prevention and Treatment Project, CalWORKs Project and Fee-for-Services Program.  Recently he has completed research on Asian adolescent gambling behaviors.  At AFI, he supervises interns/trainees and staff and provides training on multicultural mental health issues.  He is a well-known teacher/speaker on and an active advocate for Asian-American mental health, and is sought out by media (including radio, TV, newspapers) to provide commentary on various mental health topics.  In addition, Dr. Chiu provides psycho-educational workshops to the Asian communities, as well as conducts seminars and colloquiums at national conferences on Asian Mental health.  

Dr. Chiu is an Assistant Professor at Alliant International University in San Francisco, teaching courses such as family therapy, Asian American psychology, psychodiagnostic and intelligence assessment, legal and ethics in clinical practice, and clinical supervision.  He also serves as a committee member on the Institutional Review Board and supervises students’ dissertation. 

Dr. Chiu’s research interests include Asian mental health issues, personality in multicultural setting, problem gambling, cultural formulation of assessment and treatment, and child and family issues.  Recently he has published two book chapters on Asian mental health (Negy, C., 2008).  The titles of the book chapters are “Cultural Bereavement and Sense of Coherence: Its Implications for Psychotherapy with Southeast Asian Refugees” and “Assessment and Psychotherapy with Asian Americans”.  He is particularly interested in the integration of family systems, Ericksonian, psychodynamic methods, and other useful approaches in psychotherapy with individuals, couples, and families.  Also, Dr. Chiu maintains a private practice in the Bay Area. 

Administrator / Director of Operations, Broderick Street Adult Residential Facility - Michael Badolato, LMFT
Michael Badolato is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, and has worked with dual and triple diagnosed individuals in residential settings for over 10 years. Prior to coming to RAMS, he was Coordinator of the Residential Treatment Program at Westside Lodge. There he utilized the Social Rehabilitation Model to foster recovery from addictions as well as assisting individuals to gain an increased sense of self-awareness and promote enhanced independent living skills. In New York, Michael worked for the Partnership for the Homeless for 4 years as a Vocational Specialist.  Additionally, he also developed and facilitated a life transition workshop as part of the federally funded  Senior Aides Project.  His workshop assisted senior citizens living at the poverty level who desired to re-enter the work force make the transition to subsidized and un-subsidized employment. He also developed and co-authored "Seniors on the Move" a monthly newsletter designed to provide information and recognition to the programs participants as well as function as a vehicle for a sense of connectedness and belonging. 

Michael received his B.A. from Fordham University in New York and an M.A. in Integral Counseling Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. He has trained in Psychodynamic, Gestalt, and Transpersonal therapies and approaches healing with a holistic viewpoint that seeks to integrate Mind, Body, and Spirit. He is deeply committed to creating environments that uphold humanistic principles as the foundation for true growth and healing.

Director of Child, Youth & Family Outpatient Services Clinic - Nira Singh, PsyD
Nira Singh is a licensed psychologist, with many years of experience providing dedicated & culturally competent services to underserved communities, especially the South Asians and victims of abuse, conducting advocacy and treatment, as well as facilitating psycho-educational presentations for the community at large. 

Most recently at Narika, an agency that addresses domestic violence in the South Asian community, Dr. Singh was instrumental in creating & implementing outreach plans to increase awareness, providing training and supervision to volunteers, and facilitating community forums.  She is also a former Pre-Doctoral Intern of the National Asian American Psychological Training Center and clinical staff member at RAMS CYF Outpatient Services; she is familiar with RAMS operations and has had hands-on experience with the populations RAMS serves.  While at California School of Professional Psychology, Alliant International University, Dr. Singh served as Coordinator for the Teen Relationship Abuse Project, adjunct faculty member for the Intercultural Awareness Development, and continues to serve as a Consultant/Lecturer for the Multicultural Psychology and Family Violence.  Also, as a dancer, she values incorporating artistic approaches and activities in her clinical/therapeutic work.

While Dr. Sneed has worked almost exclusively with young children and families, she has also had training and professional work experiences with college students, chronically mentally ill adults, and geriatric clients.  She has worked as individual and group psychotherapist, provided case management services, and has conducted psychological testing.  Dr. Sneed also provided group and individual clinical supervision to doctoral and master level psychology trainees. Her academic interest has been focused on the connection between multiple minority identities and socio-economic status.

Dr. Sneed received a BA in Psychology at DePaul University in Chicago. She received a MA and Psy.D. from Alliant University, California School of Professional Psychology.

Director of Hire-Ability Vocational Services - Daniel Michael
Daniel Michael is the Director of Vocational Services for the RAMS Hire-Ability program. He has had over twenty years of experience in the mental health field. During these years, Daniel has specialized in developing and administrating vocational rehabilitation programs for individuals with mental health disabilities. He began his career with Phoenix Enterprises, a vocational rehabilitation program in Contra Costa County. He established NISH federal contracts employing hundreds of individuals at Travis, Oakland and Concord military bases. He has developed job placement programs through the State Department of Rehabilitation, Private Industry Counsel, County Mental Health, State Personnel Board and others. He has established CARF accredited programs in Supported Employment, Work Adjustment, Job Development and Placement. In addition, he is a strong advocate of the development of partnerships with business. He has established agreements with regional and local business to provide many job training and job placement opportunities throughout the Bay Area.

Director of Training & National Asian American Psychology Training Center - Alla Volovich, PhD
Dr. Volovich received her Ph.D. in psychology from Moscow State University and completed her postdoctoral clinical training at the UCSF/Mt. Zion Medical Center in San Francisco. In her almost twenty years as a psychologist, both in the USA and in Russia, Dr. Volovich has published a number of professional papers; conducted several large-scale research projects on cross-cultural psychology; taught classes to university students and supervised their research and clinical work. Before her relocation to the USA, Dr. Volovich worked as a psychotherapist, lecture, and researcher in Moscow. She was one of the founding members of the Division of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of the Russian Association of Practicing Psychologists, and served as the Division's Secretary. Two research projects she co-authored were awarded USSR Academy of Sciences sponsorship, and she served as the Chief Investigator on these projects. Having started her work in the USA as a Visiting Professor at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, and having worked as a psychotherapist in primary medical and community mental health settings in San Francisco, Dr. Volovich continues to combine clinical work with teaching and supervision. 

In addition to her work as the Training Center Director, Dr. Volovich serves as a member of Doctoral Dissertation Committees for several local schools and maintains a private practice in San Francisco that emphasizes psychotherapy with adults, children, and families, as well as clinical and cultural consultations. Her clinical orientation combines Psychoanalysis, predominantly, Object Relations, with theoretical ideas from the Cultural-Historical Approach (Lev Vygotsky, Alexander Luria). Her areas of interest and expertise include therapy with severely troubled and fragile clients, particularly, those with childhood traumas; cultural issues in child development; and issues related to cross-cultural communication in psychotherapy and clinical training.  Her own contributions to the field of cross-cultural mental health include studies of perceived gender roles and sex-role socialization of children vis-a-vie Russian cultural orientation; study of socio-cultural norms reflected in children's books; research on specifics of psychotherapy with Russian clients; as well as her current work as a member of the National Asian American Pacific Islander Mental Health Association Executive Committee for the Workforce Training Project: the first effort to develop a core curriculum for training clinicians on providing culturally competent services to Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (nation-wide research supported by a grant from the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration).

Director of PAES Counseling & Pre-Vocational Services - Debra Salan, MSW, PhD
Dr. Salan has over twenty years of administrative, clinical, and academic teaching experience working in a diverse range of social service settings and program areas, with particular focus on substance abuse treatment, women, and poverty.

Born and raised in San Francisco, Dr. Salan spent 25 years living and working in Israel, where she was a faculty member for fourteen years at the Paul Bearwald School of Social Work at Hebrew University.  Also, she worked for many years as a clinical social worker in a public neighborhood multi-service agency and primary health care clinic serving individuals, couples, families, the disabled and the elderly.  While at Hebrew University, Dr. Salan taught courses in the areas of treatment intervention & policy, supervised students in field placements, and directed two large-scale continuing education training/licensing programs.  Dr. Salan’s dissertation and research interests focus on the treatment experiences of substance abusing Israeli women, and she has presented her work at international conferences.  She also maintained a thriving independent management consultant practice, providing group training and executive coaching to clients of the corporate and non-profit sectors, on topics ranging from management practice to sales & customer service. 

Since her return to the U.S. in 2003, Dr. Salan has continued her work with clients with substance abuse, homeless, and mental illness issues.  She was formerly the Clinical Coordinator at the San Francisco Pretrial Services, and most recently was the Director of the SafeHouse for Women, a transitional housing program for homeless prostituted women. 

Dr. Salan received her PhD in Social Work from the Hebrew University (Jerusalem) and earned her MSW degree with an emphasis in Organization, Planning and Administration from the University of California, Berkeley (UCB).  She completed her undergraduate studies with honors in Social Sciences also at (UCB) and was elected into Phi Beta Kappa. 

Director of Behavioral Health Services, Wellness Centers Program - Kristin Chun, LMFT
Kristin Chun is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, born and raised in San Francisco. As the Director of Behavioral Health Services of the Wellness Centers Program at RAMS, she manages the behavioral health services that are provided on-site at the fifteen high school-based Wellness Centers located throughout San Francisco. Her interest in coordinating care for adolescents stem from working as a clinician for the past six years through RAMS school-based services at George Washington High School and the Wellness Center at John O’Connell High School.  Since joining RAMS in 2000, she has provided services to severely mentally ill adults as a trainee, provided pre-school consultation for the Fu-Yau Project, and currently serves as a Change Agent, responsible for facilitating the integration of mental health and substance abuse services within the agency. As a former student of the public school system in San Francisco, she remains committed to serving at-risk youth in the community.

Medical Director of RAMS Adult Outpatient Clinic - Ravi Chandra, MD
Dr. Ravi Chandra is the Medical Director for the Adult Outpatient Clinic, and manages the psychiatric evaluation & medication support services that are being provided to clients of the clinic. Dr. Chandra received his Sc.B. in Biology from Brown University and an M.D. from Stanford University School of Medicine. He completed his residency in General Adult Psychiatry at UCSF.  Along the way, he has pursued work in Health Policy, Bioethics, and Family Medicine. During an internship in Family Medicine, his interest in Psychiatry was kindled by working with survivors of war trauma.

Dr. Chandra is highly dedicated to serving the community through RAMS; he has also served as the Attending Psychiatrist at the Adult Outpatient Clinic and PAES Counseling & Pre-Vocational Services programs of RAMS. He continues to further explore a diverse range of interests, including cross cultural issues, film, psychology, spirituality, and politics. He writes occasional articles for such publications as Nha Magazine and Hyphen Magazine. Dr. Chandra has conducted presentations for the public (on themes such as relationships and mental illness), and local & national audiences of psychiatrists (on spiritual and psychological aspects of film, for example). He also maintains a private practice in San Francisco, which is primarily devoted to psychotherapy.

Medical Director of RAMS Child, Youth & Family Services  - Wesley Dunn, MD
Dr. Dunn graduated from Loma Linda University School of Medicine in Southern California and then completed his general psychiatry residency at San Mateo County.  He pursued additional training Stanford University School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences - Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry and Child Development.  At Stanford University, Dr. Dunn served as the Chief Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellow.

Dr. Dunn has been awarded several honors, including an American Medical Association Scholarship to provide medical care in Brazil and a National Institute of Mental Health travel scholarship to New York for bipolar research.  He was also featured in the San Francisco Chronicle for his practice of hypnotherapy with pediatric oncology patients.

Dr. Dunn has always had an interest in cultural psychiatry and recently presented on pediatric cultural psychiatry at the 10^th Annual Stanford University Symposium on Developmental Approaches to Psychopathology.  In addition to his work at RAMS, he maintains a private practice in Burlingame.

Operations Manager - Angela Tang, MSW  
Angela Tang received her Master's of Science in Social Work from Columbia University and earned her Bachelor's of Social Work at San Francisco State University. Prior to joining RAMS in 2004, she provided counseling services and conducted various administration projects at community-based organizations and public agencies, including Hamilton-Madison House (NYC), an employee assistance program for a union of sheet metal workers (NYC), NYC Human Resources Administration/Dept. of Social Services - Office of Program Reporting, Analysis & Accountability, Asian Women's Shelter (SF), and Balboa Teen Health Clinic (SF).

CLINICAL SUPERVISORS

Christina Shea, LMFT - Supervisor for Staff and Practicum Trainees

Nira Singh, PsyD - Supervisor for Staff, NAAPTC Predoctoral Interns, and Practicum Trainees