Alan Teo, MD, MS, is Director of Education at the Center to Improve Veteran Involvement in Care (CIVIC) and Professor of Psychiatry at Oregon Health & Science University (博彩网站). He is also Director of CIVIC’s Postdoctoral Fellowship in Health Systems Research and a staff psychiatrist at the VA Portland Health Care System.

Dr. Teo studies the role of social connection in our mental health, with a focus on loneliness, suicide prevention, social media and military veterans. He has published over 210 peer-reviewed journal articles, conference abstracts, and reports. An Investigator with the VA Suicide Prevention Research Impact Network, Dr. Teo has led studies evaluating highly scalable suicide prevention interventions, such the “VA S.A.V.E.” suicide prevention training, a Caring Contacts intervention called the “Buddy Check Postcard Project,” and a VA firearm safety campaign called “Keep It Secure.”

Fluent in Japanese and President of the Society for the Study of Psychiatry and Culture, Dr. Teo (pronounced “Tee-oh”) is an internationally recognized expert on hikikomori, collaborates extensively with researchers in Japan and globally, and has served as the Secretary General of the Pacific Rim College of Psychiatrists. He has served as a subject matter expert to national organizations and program offices, including the VA Office of Research and Development, VA Office of Connected Care and National Committee for Quality Assurance. His work has been featured in national and international media outlets, including the New York Times, CNN, NPR, and the Wall Street Journal.

Dr. Teo completed his training at Stanford University, the University of California, San Francisco, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program at the University of Michigan. In his personal time, he enjoys dispersed camping with his family and running ultramarathons.