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physician there. FROM THE MIND TO MEDICINE Many of Foege’s friends and colleagues know the story: While incapacitated for months in a body cast due to a hip injury as a teenager, he read about the medical missionary work of physician-philosopher Albert Schweitzer. What some may not know is that Foege’s original interest in medicine was psychiatry. “I’d read a book about this psychiatrist who was really operating like a detective, a detective of the mind,” he said. That interest eventually lost out to

, Department of Psychiatry, where he was Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Social Work. As the Clinic and Research Coordinator for the Pediatric Stress and Anxiety Disorders Clinic, using a cognitive behavioral strategies framework, he treated individuals across the life-span with anxiety disorders, including Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) for more than 15 years. In addition to his clinical work, Dr. Simpson remains a Co-Primary Investigator of a

. Using individualism and collectivism to compare cultures–A critique of the validity and measurement of the constructs: Comment on Oyserman et al. (2002). Psychol Bull [Internet]. 2002;128(1):78–88. Caldwell-Harris CL, Ayçiçegi A. When Personality and Culture Clash: The Psychological Distress of Allocentrics in an Individualist Culture and Idiocentrics in a Collectivist Culture. Transcult Psychiatry [Internet]. 2006;43(3):331–600. Ian Rice, '20, Politics & Government and Global Studies:My tutorial