Brian McPhee is a child and adult psychiatrist who recently graduated from the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship at UCLA, after completing his Adult Psychiatry Residency at the same institution. He attended medical school at UCSF and was in the inaugural class of the UCSF PRIME Urban Underserved program, an additive curriculum with a focus on training physicians to work in low-resource and often marginalized settings. Growing up he was provided with an education in both the social determinants of health and the role of power and inequality in cultural relations. He moved to New York City to attend college at NYU, where he studied anthropology and sociology. He stayed in New York and became a member of an avant-garde performance troupe with a group of visual and performance artists on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. After performing on tour in Europe, he returned to New York and worked for an HIV non-profit and began pursuing a career in medicine. He attended a post-baccalaureate program for entrance to medical school, and worked at the New York State AIDS Institute, as a researcher in quality improvement and healthcare delivery services. Since graduating medical school, he has worked for the Los Angeles Department of Mental Health, on a school-based project in Nicaragua for 6 months with at-risk youth and families, and at a residential school in the northeast of Guatemala for 4 months. He is excited to work in Navajo Nation at the Gallup Indian Medical Center.