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Dr. Andrade is Professor and Chair of the University of Hawaii, John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM), Department of Psychiatry, and was the founding director of the National Center on Indigenous Hawaiian Behavioral Health. She is Chair of the Board of Trustees at The Queen’s Health Systems founded in 1859 by King Kamehameha IV and Queen Emma with a dedicated mission to serve Native Hawaiians and all the people of Hawaii.
A native of Keei, South Kona, Dr. Andrade received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Hawaii at Hilo and completed her M.D. at JABSOM. Her post-graduate training included completing psychiatry residency training at JABSOM and clinical executive training at The Harvard School of Public Health. A major focus of Dr. Andrade’s professional career has been the advancement of Native Hawaiians. Her research studies include the longitudinal epidemiological studies of over 7,000 and 1,200 Native Hawaiian adolescents that determine the prevalence of psychiatric disorders and the role of culture in mental and behavioral health disorders.
Dr. Andrade is a fellow and first vice president, slated to become the president of the Board of Regents within the American College of Psychiatrists. Her honors include the Sigma Xi Outstanding Research Award, recipient of the Royal College of Australian and New Zealand Psychiatrists H.B. William Visiting Professor and Fellow, the Outstanding Community Mental Health Leader Award by the Mental Health America of Hawaii, and the Robert Cancro Academic Leadership Award (for outstanding leadership as a psychiatry chair, in advancing child and adolescent psychiatry) by the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
Revisions — Oct. 8, 2010
