Fiona Fonseca

Fiona Diviya Fonseca is a board-certified American consultation-liaison psychiatrist. Notably, they have been awarded fellowships from organizations including the United States government's Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), the Association for Academic Psychiatry (AAP), and the American Psychiatric Association (APA), who publish the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Specifically, they are an APA Diversity Leadership and SAMHSA fellow[1][2][3] and they were the winner of the 2023 ACLP Webb Fellowship Award[1][3] and the 2023 AAP Master Educator IDEA Fellowship Award.[4][5]

LGBT Identity

Fonseca self-identifies as “LGBTQ+ non-binary person of color."[1] They specifically use “non-binary/ agender and bisexual/ demisexual” identifiers and they/them/theirs pronouns.[6] They have been included on the Randolph-Macon College page for Trans Day of Visibility 2024[7] and are a part of the 500 Queer Scientists visibility campaign.[6]

Education

They received their Master of Science in Counseling and Psychology from Troy University’s College of Education after graduation in 2016.[8][9] Additionally, they received their medical degree as a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery from the National University of Ireland, Galway School of Medicine.[10][9] They performed their residency in St. Mary Mercy Hospital, MI.[9]

Career

Fonseca is an American-based Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry fellow.[1][7] Currently, they are affiliated with the Mayo Clinic healthcare company in Rochester, MN.[1][10][6] They are a registered member of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health[11] and hold a registered US NPI[12] number. They are certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in consultation-liaison psychiatry and psychiatry.[9]

They describe their professional interests as “particularly interested in reproductive and LGBTQIA+ psychiatry” and “committed to DEIA-related advocacy and physician well-being” with a “keen interest in psychotherapy.”[1]

Research and Publications

Fonseca has works published with several academic journals focused around psychiatry and counseling, including the Journal of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry,[13] the American Journal of Psychiatry - Residents' Journal,[14][15] the Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development,[16] Counselling and Psychotherapy Research,[17] and The Alabama Counseling Association Journal.[18]

Other works by them include articles written for Psychiatric News[19] and the Psychiatric Times.[3]

They have additionally co-authored the section “A Relapse-Prevention Intervention for LGBTQ Clients with Substance use Disorders: The C3PO” for the book Homework Assignments and Handouts for LGBTQ+ Clients.[20]

Fonseca has also “moderated film discussion sessions for the Association of Gay and Lesbian Psychiatrists (AGLP) and presented at the APA Annual Meeting screening of the documentary.”[2] They are attending the upcoming 2024 AGLP and APA annual meeting as a key speaker on the following panels; "A Structural Conceptualization of the Designer-Affirming Psychiatric Consultation: Letter-Writing and Beyond," "Kinky is not a diagnosis: What every Psychiatrist should know about sex and relationships," "Journeys in Advocacy: You Can Be What You Can See," and "Racial, Gender, and Sexual Orientation Microaggressions Experienced in Healthcare and Strategies to Overcome."[21]

Awards and Accreditations

Fonseca was one of six recipients selected for the selective[22] 2023 ACLP Webb Fellowship Award, awarded by the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry.[1] They served on the Medical Student Education Subcommittee[1][3] after receiving the award.

They are also the current holder of the APA Diversity Leadership and SAMHSA Fellowship chair.[1][2][3] For this position, Fonseca serves on the Council on Medical Education and Lifelong Learning.[2] They attend APA board of trustee meetings and they work with the Council on Advocacy and Government Relations.[1][3]

Additionally, they were one of two recipients to have been awarded the 2023 AAP Master Educator IDEA Fellowship Award.[4][5] They have been acknowledged as a Mayo Clinic Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry fellow by the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science.[23]

They have been named as the Deputy Editor for the American Journal of Psychiatry Residents’ Journal (AJP-RJ)[24] and are a listed author for the Psychiatric Times.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Webb Fellows". Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry. Retrieved 2024-05-12.
  2. ^ a b c d Reynolds, Fátima (June 21, 2023). "Culture Corner: The Impact of Film and Poetry on Mental Health with Fiona Fonseca, M.D., M.S." Psychiatry.org.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g "Fíona Fonseca, MD". Psychiatric Times. Retrieved 2024-05-12.
  4. ^ a b "2023 AAP Award Winners, Fellow & Distinguished Fellow Recipients" (PDF). Association for Academic Psychiatry.
  5. ^ a b "Master Educator IDEA Fellowship Award". Association for Academic Psychiatry. Retrieved 2024-05-12.
  6. ^ a b c "Fiona Fonseca". 500 Queer Scientists. Retrieved 2024-05-12.
  7. ^ a b Bowling, Unity. "McGraw-Page Library: Trans Day of Visibility - Trans Voices in STEM: Fíona Fonseca - Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Fellow". library.rmc.edu. Retrieved 2024-05-12.
  8. ^ "Troy University's Merit Page". Merit Pages. Retrieved 2024-05-12.
  9. ^ a b c d "Dr. Fiona Fonseca MD".
  10. ^ a b "Dr. Fiona Fonseca, Psychiatry | Livonia, MI | WebMD". doctor.webmd.com. Retrieved 2024-05-12.
  11. ^ "WPATH World Professional Association for Transgender Health". wpath.org. Retrieved 2024-05-12.
  12. ^ "FIONA D FONSECA, MB BCH BAO, MS, Psychiatry ROCHESTER, MN - Profile". NPIdb.org. Retrieved 2024-05-12.
  13. ^ Fonseca, Fiona (2022-05-01). "(PO-028) Care until the End: A Curriculum for End-of-life Psychiatry". Journal of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry. Abstracts from the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry November 10–12, 2021. 63: S14. doi:10.1016/j.jaclp.2022.03.035. ISSN 2667-2960.
  14. ^ AJP-RJ On Telepsychiatry. Retrieved 2024-05-12 – via www.youtube.com.
  15. ^ Fonseca, Fiona (2020-12-14). "On Being and Being Enough". American Journal of Psychiatry Residents' Journal. 16 (2): 10–10. doi:10.1176/appi.ajp-rj.2020.160205.
  16. ^ Matthews, Jennifer J.; Fonseca, Fiona D.; Varnado‐Johnson, Chantrelle Deron (January 2021). "Help‐Seeking Behaviors of African Americans After a Loss". Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development. 49 (1): 60–71. doi:10.1002/jmcd.12206. ISSN 0883-8534.
  17. ^ Leibert, Todd W.; Powell, Richard N.; Fonseca, Fiona D. (2019). "Client descriptions of outcomes compared with quantitative data: A mixed‐methods investigation of a quantitative outcome measure". Counselling and Psychotherapy Research. 20 (1): 9–18. doi:10.1002/capr.12260. ISSN 1473-3145.
  18. ^ Farmer, Leland; Davis, Toni; Richards, Jayne; Fonseca, Fiona; Bates, Hope; Faircloth, Patrick K.; Cates, Keith (2017). "Deinstitutionalization in Alabama: A Mental Health Crisis" (PDF). The Alabama Counseling Association Journal. 41 (2): 82–103.
  19. ^ Fonseca, Fiona; Dorsett, Anna; Kimball, James (2023-04-21). "The Consultant Psychiatrist and the Transgender Patient". Psychiatric News. doi:10.1176/appi.pn.2023.05.4.27.
  20. ^ Fonseca, Michael P. Chaney, Fiona D. (2020), "A Relapse-Prevention Intervention for LGBTQ Clients with Substance use Disorders: The C3PO", Homework Assignments and Handouts for LGBTQ+ Clients, Routledge, doi:10.4324/9781003088639-56/relapse-prevention-intervention-lgbtq-clients-substance-use-disorders-c3po-michael-chaney-fiona-fonseca, ISBN 978-1-003-08863-9, retrieved 2024-05-12{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  21. ^ "AGLP Annual Conference". www.aglp.org. Retrieved 2024-05-12.
  22. ^ "ACLP Fellowship (FACLP)". Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry. Retrieved 2024-05-26.
  23. ^ Science, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and. "Curriculum - Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Fellowship (Minnesota) - Mayo Clinic College of Medicine & Science". Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science. Retrieved 2024-05-12.
  24. ^ "Meet Deputy Editor Dr. Fiona Fonseca!". Twitter.