Samantha Stewart, MD
Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist
Public/Community Psychiatrist
Co-director for Mental Health, Los Angeles Human Rights Initiative (asylum clinic)
Samantha Stewart trained at the MGH/McLean Adult psychiatry residency and later the UCLA Child and Adolescent Psychiatry fellowship. She also completed the Columbia Public Psychiatry fellowship while working as a psychiatrist for the NYU/Bellevue Program for Survivors of Torture. While at NYU and Bellevue she cofounded the Bellevue Public Psychiatry fellowship that has evolved into the NYC Health + Hospitals/NYU Public Psychiatry Leadership Fellowship. She was a consultant and trainer for the Refugee Health Technical Assistance Center and participated in trainings and consultations in New York City and abroad regarding working with refugees and survivors of torture. Since moving to California she spent 8 years as the Director of Psychiatric Services for Venice Family Clinic. She is volunteer faculty for UCLA Community and Global Psychiatry program and co-directs the UCLA Psychiatry Asylum Clinic. She lectures residents on refugee mental health and narrative medicine. She currently works with foster youth and unaccompanied minors at Vista Del Mar residential programs. She also collaborates with the Refugee Health Alliance that provides medical care at the Tijuana border, the Keck/USC Narrative Medicine program on expanding narrative medicine in LA, and with Safe Place for Youth (SPY).