Speakers

Amira Abdulhafid, MPH
Program Director for Suicide Prevention at GUIDE, Inc.
Amira Abdulhafid serves as the Program Director for Suicide Prevention. She joined GUIDE in June of 2019. Amira focuses on increasing awareness and resources for suicide prevention, including evidence-based suicide prevention trainings, such as QPR (Question, Persuade, Refer) and Youth Mental Health First Aid. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Spanish with a Creative Writing minor at Georgia College & State University and earned a Master of Public Health at Georgia State University. Amira is passionate about building relationships and sharing knowledge and education to create a healthier community.

Dr. Noriel Lim
Assistant Professor and Clinical Psychology Internship Director at Emory University School of Medicine
Dr. Noriel (Nori) Lim was born in the Philippines and raised in Los Angeles, California. He received his BA in Psychology and Anthropology from UC Berkeley, and his MA and PhD in Clinical-Community Psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Lim completed a year-long internship training in the Clinical Child Psychology Track at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, NY, before moving to Atlanta for a two-year fellowship at Emory’s Child and Adolescent Mood Program (CAMP). He joined the faculty at Emory University School of Medicine in 2013 and is currently serving as the training director of the clinical psychology pre-doctoral internship program. Dr. Lim has held leadership roles in the Asian American Psychological Association (AAPA) as well as the Society for the Psychological Study of Culture, Ethnicity and Race (APA Division 45).

Dr. Stan Sonu, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at the Emory University School of Medicine
Dr. Stan Sonu is an assistant professor of internal medicine and pediatrics at the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia. His expertise and research interests include prevention of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), trauma-informed care education, and promotion of relational health and resilience in pediatric primary care. In addition to supervising internal medicine residents in the Primary Care Center at Grady Memorial Hospital, Dr. Sonu provides direct care for children and adolescents at the Primary Care Center at Hughes Spalding Children's Hospital. Additionally, he serves as the Medical Director for Child Advocacy for Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta; in this role, he provides programmatic support for Strong 4 Life (a CHOA program dedicated to the promotion of health, safety, and resilience among families) and Health Law Partnership (an interdisciplinary medical-legal partnership between CHOA, Georgia State University, and Atlanta Legal Aid). Dr. Sonu obtained his medical degree at the Medical College of Georgia and completed his residency in combined internal medicine/pediatrics at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, IL. He completed a fellowship at the Cook County Preventive Medicine and Public Health Program and also obtained a Master’s in Public Health at Northwestern University. Beyond all of these titles and roles that fill his bio, Stan is a son, spouse, parent, friend, Asian American, and person of faith. He strives to live each day in the reality that his worth is found in his humanity, not his professional or educational accomplishments. In his free time, you can find him drinking good coffee, reading a book, enjoying engaging conversations, and spending quality time with his family and friends.

Yuki Takamatsu Reese, LCSW
Director of School-Based Services at View Point Health
Yuki was born and raised in Japan and came to the US as an exchange student to study psychology while teaching Japanese at a college. She obtained master's degree in social work and became a licensed clinical social worker and has been providing mental health services to mainly children and adolescents for over 25 years. She is currently a director of school-based services with View Point Health and has a team of 40+ licensed therapists assigned to local schools to provide professional counseling.