Dora Wang, MD, MA, is a graduate of the Yale School of Medicine, and the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute, where she specialized in the treatment of Anxiety Disorders and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. She completed an MA in English Literature from the University of California, Berkeley, with an emphasis in ethnic American literature and the history of medicine.
At the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, where she has been on the faculty since 1998, she has trained a generation of psychiatrists on treating anxiety and mood disorders with medications as well as evidence-based psychotherapies, such as cognitive-behavioral therapy.
Dr Dora has been the recipient of a Lannan Foundation Writer’s Residency, a New Mexico-Arizona Book Award, the Pfeiffer Visiting Scholar Award from the Stanford School of Medicine, and a Graduate and Professional Program Award from the Yale Alumni Association. She has attended the Squaw Valley Community of Writers, and is represented by Michael Carlisle of Inkwell Management.
She is the author of a literary memoir about the noble profession of medicine transforming into a profit-driven health care industry, The Kitchen Shrink: A Psychiatrist’s Reflections on Healing in a Changing World, (Riverhead/Penguin, 2010). She is a textbook author on various subjects, and a nationally recognized expert in the treatment of anxiety disorders and factitious disorders. Her most recent book, The Daily Practice of Compassion: A History of the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Its People and Its Mission, 1964-2014 has earned her the title of Historian of the School of Medicine at the University of New Mexico.
In her local community, she hosted a TV talk show, “Duke City Magazine,” for six years.