James Boehnlein, MD

Professor of Psychiatry, Assistant Dean for Curriculum Oregon Health and Science University

Associate Director for Education, Department of Veterans Affairs Northwest Network Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (MIRECC)

Dr. Boehnlein received his psychiatry training at the Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) and was a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania before he took his current faculty position at OHSU in 1987. During the past 15 years he has been a staff psychiatrist in OHSU's Intercultural Psychiatric Program, where he has treated Cambodian and Central American refugees and has worked with colleagues in clinical research that has studied long-term adjustment of traumatized refugees from a biopsychosocial perspective. Over the same period he has also been a clinician in the mental health clinic of the Portland VA Medical Center, treating veterans with PTSD and chronic psychosis. He is board certified in both general and forensic psychiatry. Dr. Boehnlein also has been extensively involved in various areas of medical education and curriculum reform and is currently Director of Medical Student Education in OHSU's Department of Psychiatry and the medical school's Assistant Dean for Curriculum. He also has responsibility for ongoing continuing education for the VA's multidisciplinary mental health professionals in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Alaska as Director of Education for the VA's regional mental health research center. He is currently President of the Society for the Study of Psychiatry and Culture, an international association of psychiatric and social science researchers and educators that has as its mission the enhancement of research, education, and culturally competent clinical care in cross-cultural psychiatry.