New Beginnings: Reimagining Psychosis Services & Systems in the US

ISPS-US 23rd Annual Conference | November 1-3, 2024 | University of Pittsburgh & Duquesne University | Pittsburgh, PA & Hybrid Online | Preliminary Schedule

Ippolytos Kalofonos, MD, PhD, MPH

Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System

About me

Ippolytos Kalofonos, MD PhD MPH is an assistant professor-in-residence in the UCLA Center for Social Medicine. He is a medical anthropologist and a practicing psychiatrist in the Greater Los Angeles Veteran Affairs Medical Center. He has been working on adapting the Hearing Voices approach to the VA since 2018. He was the lead qualitative investigator of a quality improvement evaluation of a “safe camping” initiative on the campus of the West LA VA. He also teaches Global Health in the UCLA International Institute where he is the Chair of the Global Health Minor. His first book, “ ‘All I Eat is Medicine’: Going Hungry in Mozambique’s AIDS Economy” (University of California Press, 2021) traces the legacies of imperialism, extraction, and racialized exploitation and abandonment at the root of large-scale contemporary health crises like the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

My Speakers Sessions

1:30pm EDT

Hearing Voices Implementation (In-Person Only) Union Room 119Erica Hua Fletcher • Ippolytos Kalofonos, MD, PhD, MPH • Carol Jahchan, PhD • Sahastri Hercules • Cindy Hadge • Alison Branitsky, Mres