Interview with Dr. Diane St. Fleur, Chief Medical Officer, Kedren Health
Dr. Diane St. Fleur is Chief Medical Officer of Clinic Operations, and Medical Director of the Child Division at Kedren Health. She is a triple board-certified psychiatrist with certification in the following specialties: adult psychiatry, child and adolescent psychiatry and forensic psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. She is passionate about serving children and their families including those that suffer from trauma, addiction, and disrupted community cohesiveness. She has been trained in Dialectal Behavioral Therapy( DBT), Deconstructive Dynamic Psychotherapy( DDP) and Motivational Interviewing. She is suboxone waivered.
Where did you grow up?
I grew up on Long Island, New York, South Shore. Actually, I lived in a few towns. I was born in Hempstead. Until the age of 10, I lived in Freeport. After that, we moved to Suffolk County and I lived in Wyandanch, Central Islip, Bayshore, and Brentwood.
Where did you attend undergrad? Cornell University. I was an Africana Studies major.
I’ m one of the founders of the Pan African Studies Department at Cal State University, Los Angeles.
There you go. You must know Dr. James Turner. He was my advisor. And his wife, Dean Janice Turner.
James Turner was a real bellwether. Did you ever see the movie about the founding of the Pan African Studies movement, with this great focus on what was happening at Cornell?
The Straight Hall takeover? That documentary? Yeah.
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I really became drawn to how can I, in this field, learn about the whole person in treated and particularly at my medical school, Upstate Medical University.
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CDU College of Medicine | PG. 30