James Griffith, MD, MS is Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences and Vice-Chair for Education in the GW Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health.  He served as Chair of the Department of Psychiatry from 2011 to 2021.  As a psychiatric educator, Dr. Griffith helped develop psychiatric training at GW that has become distinguished for its curriculum in cultural psychiatry, global mental health, psychotherapy training, psychosocial care for medically-ill patients, and building resilience to adversity.  In his scholarship, Dr. Griffith has published 54 refereed journal articles, 34 book chapters, and 5 authored or co-authored books, including Religion that Heals, Religion that Harms, which received the Creative Scholarship Award from the Society for the Study of Psychiatry and Culture.  He has served as president, keynote speaker, and endowed lecturer for numerous organizations, professional conferences, and academic departments.  Since 1998, Dr. Griffith has provided training for mental health professionals in the care of immigrants, refugees, and survivors of political torture at Northern Virginia Family Services, for which he has received national recognition.  He has received both the Distinguished Service Award and the Distinguished Teacher Award from the GWU School of Medicine and Health Sciences.  He has been recipient of the Oskar Pfister Award from the American Psychiatric Association for his contributions to the field of religion and psychiatry.  He received the Tow Humanism in Medicine Award from the Arnold Gold Humanism Society.  The Society for Study of Culture and Psychiatry recently awarded Dr. Griffith its Lifetime Achievement Award for Cultural Psychiatry.