Ruth S. Shim
Luke & Grace Kim Professor in Cultural Psychiatry, University of California, Davis; Director of cultural psychiatry
Ruth S. Shim (she/her/hers) was elected to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Board of Trustees in October 2018, effective January 2019.
Shim is the Luke & Grace Kim Professor in Cultural Psychiatry and director of cultural psychiatry and professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, at the University of California, Davis. Prior to these appointments, she was the vice chair of education and faculty development, and chief of outpatient psychiatric services at Lenox Hill Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, Northwell Health.
From 2008 to 2014, she held several positions at Morehouse School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, including associate professor of clinical psychiatry and medical director of the Grady Hospital Adult Outpatient Psychiatry Intake Clinic. At the Morehouse School of Medicine’s National Center for Primary Care, she was the associate director of behavioral health.