The Psychological Impact of the Pandemic

Dr. Aaron Kheriaty joins Joel Kotkin and Marshall Toplansky on The Feudal Future Podcast. To watch the video on YouTube, click here On this episode of Feudal Future, hosts Joel Kotkin and Marshall Toplansky are joined by Dr. Aaron Kheriaty, Professor of Psychiatry at UC Irvine and Ross Elliot, Chairman of the Urban Land Institute of Australia. This show covers the psychological impact of Covid-19 and how governments are managing it. Aaron Kheriaty is Professor of Psychiatry at UCI School of Medicine and Director of the Medical Ethics Program at UCI Health. He serves as chairman of the medical ethics committees at UCI Hospital and at the CA Department of State Hospitals. Dr. Kheriaty graduated from the University of Notre Dame in philosophy and pre-medical sciences, earned his MD degree from Georgetown University, and completed residency training in psychiatry at UCI. He has authored books and articles for professional and lay audiences on bioethics, social science, psychiatry, and religion. His work has been published in the Wall Street Journal , the Washington Post , Public Discourse , and First Things ; he has conducted print, radio, and television interviews on bioethics topics with The New York Times , the , CNN, Fox, and NPR. On matters of public policy and healthcare he has addressed the California Medical Association and has testified before the California Senate Health Committee. Ross is the co-founder of Suburban Futures (formerly The Suburban Alliance). He has 30 years’ experience in the property and urban development industry, including a number of national leadership roles for the Property Council of Australia as its Executive Director, then Chief Operating Officer and later as National Executive Director for the Residential Development Council. In this time he pioneered a number of policy initiatives for the industry on urban growth and cities policies for Australia. He has both authored and edited a number of monographs on urban development policy, housing and cities policies for Australia. Ross was also founding CEO of Brisbane Marketing, winning an International Downtown Association’s (USA) award for City Marketing in 2003. A frequent speaker, author and commentator on urban development policy, he was in 2016 invited to be international keynote speaker for the American Planning Association’s Utah conference and in 2017 was published in a global joint MIT/Chapman University project “Infinite Suburbia.”