Freddy Paniagua (Ph.D. University of Kansas; post-doctoral training at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine) is Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Society at the University of Texas, Medical Branch at Galveston. He teaches cross cultural mental health seminars with an emphasis on the assessment and treatment of minority clients. In 1989, he received a 6-year grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to provide training to mental health professionals representing culturally diverse groups with and emphasis on the assessment and treatment of emotionally disturbed clients.