Sydney Wing, PhD

Anddd that’s a wrap on @NANneuropsych in my hometown! Best highlight = perspectives on intersectional social justice + equity in brain health 🫶🏽 special shoutouts to @beyoung40 @DrEPieroth @DrDesireeByrd for being champions of BIPOC and femme patients, participants & trainees

What role to social determinants of health #SDOH play in research participation? #mTBI #PedsTBI @ShesInPsych @talin_babikian @UCLASemel @UCLABrainSPORT #JournalClub @ChildNeuroSoc @uclachildneuro @ucla_fsph @uclasemelfriend Wells JW @FrontNeurol 2022 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36176559/

Very busy #HotOffThePress #HOTP session at #WNTS23! Health comorbidities (@patmchen), athlete retirement (#JoshuaCaiquo), pediatric #TBI (#DanielIgnacio) & social determinants of health #SDOH (@ShesInPsych). @BIRC_at_UCLA @UCLABrainSPORT @DrHarrisOTD @talin_babikian @EaRLY_TBI

100% attendance from our specialties (neurology, neuropsych, OT, dietetics) in @UCLABrainSPORT clinic today 100% Woman power #WomenInSTEM #WomenInHealthcare 💪 @wngtweets @griz1

DSM-5 The Black Way Bipolar and Related Disorders is back! April 3rd, registration will go live and you'll have 45 days of unlimited access to almost 3 hours of content and yes, CEUs are available! Bipolar Disorders from a Black Community perspective is the mission

Just scheduled a 1,400 word newsletter highlighting 25 Black therapists you should be following on social media. 👀 It will hit inboxes tomorrow AM.

Today I learned the PHQ-9 was created by a marketer hired by Pfizer to sell more Zoloft.

Differences in symptoms after sport-related concussion #SRC. More post-concussion cognitive related symptoms (CRS) in ages 15-19y, females & blacks. @ShesInPsych @UCLABrainSPORT @UCLASemelFriend @UCLASemel @talin_babikian Holmes L @SportsMedicineJ 2016: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27747794/

New headshots just dropped 💜

Another excellent @UCLABrainSPORT #JournalClub reviewing racial differences in concussion/#mTBI. #DrSydneyWing @UCLASemel @UCLASemelFriend @talin_babikian @bachyns @JS_Wallace52 @TCovassin @meeryo @BIRC_at_UCLA @UCLANsgy @uclachildneuro @aafp @HuntTamerah @DrV_NeoMD

12.13.22. Dissertation = defended ✅ Honored to continue advancing the field of Black psychology, suicide theory, and emotional health outcomes for my community. @BlackinPsych @BlackInMH @citeblackwomen

I guess I can officially add that PhD to my title. So excited for this next chapter!

When all is said and done, there needs to be massive changes to academia. There is no reason why every single trainee on my TL has a story of unreasonable struggles in our doctoral education.

Thinking of all of the mental health providers (especially clinicians of color) who will be helping others process this slew of racist and biased violence before processing it themselves…

But have you seen recent graduates? Do you know how much residents make, or attorneys who are not in big law? Decisions that impact our socioeconomic future cannot be based on what our respective fields looked like 20, 50, 100 years ago.

The desire for graduates of traditional white collar professions to *not* receive student loan forgiveness is based on the same antiquated ideals that esteems them as “white collar”. That on the surface, these are careers of prestige, power and lots of money.

I invite y’all to use Juneteenth to #SupportBlackGradStudents Here’s some quick stats on why. . . We comprise ~9% of all students in all grad degree programs (CGS, 2019), yet we experience a greater risk of financial problems during + after school (TCF, 2019) #BlackintheIvory

One day, we’ll talk pay disparities. But it’s when we’re safely out of training.

If you are/know an educator/teacher or school psychologist in New Orleans . . . My dissertation study is looking at practices for testing & ID’ing Black students for Gifted programs!

Especially interested in hearing teacher + school psych perspectives on biases and their roles in ID If interested, please fill out this brief confidential screener + contact form: forms.gle/777hCtAejSMCxF…