Dr. Francis Gordon Lu MD
Psychiatrist | Psychiatry
200 JOSE FIGUERES AVE SAN JOSE CA, 95116About
Dr. Francis Lu is a psychiatrist practicing in San Francisco, CA. Dr. Lu is a medical doctor specializing in the care of mental health patients. As a psychiatrist, Dr. Lu diagnoses and treats mental illnesses. Dr. Lu may treat patients through a variety of methods including medications, psychotherapy or talk therapy, psychosocial interventions and more, depending on each individual case. Different medications that a psychiatrist might prescribe include antidepressants, antipsychotic mediations, mood stabilizers, stimulants, sedatives and hypnotics. Dr. Lu treats conditions like depression, anxiety, OCD, eating disorders, bipolar disorders, personality disorders, insomnia, ADD and other mental illnesses.
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Psychiatry and NeurologyAmerican Board of Psychiatry and NeurologyABPN
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Getting to cultural competence: guidelines and resources.
- The poor mental health care of Asian Americans.
- A psychiatric residency curriculum about Asian-American issues.
- A silver anniversary for one Asian American academic psychiatrist.
- Radiation-induced apoptosis of oligodendrocytes and its association with increased ceramide and down-regulated protein kinase B/Akt activity.
- An apparatus for continuous registration of coronary inflow changes and associated heart contractions.
- Mental health disparities, diversity, and cultural competence in medical student education: how psychiatry can play a role.
- Culture and psychiatric education.
- Using non-feature films to teach diversity, cultural competence, and the DSM-IV-TR outline for cultural formulation.
- Issues for DSM-V: the role of culture in psychiatric diagnosis.
- Culturally informed child psychiatric practice.
- Answering the question of the year with faculty diversity.
- The ethnic/minority focus unit as a training site in transcultural psychiatry.
- Discussing ethnic diversity with medical students: a pilot program.
- Student education and recruitment into psychiatry : a synergistic proposal.
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