FOR YOUR INFORMATION‌ and Pakistan in 1947 and became a lifelong advocate of diversity and work to improve cross-cultural understanding. Dr. Khanna came to the United States on a Fulbright Fellowship in 1953 Jaswant L. Khanna, PhD and obtained his PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Colorado in 1956. He has been a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at University of Tennessee, Memphis since 1961. His family was the first family of East Indian origin to move to Memphis in 1961. He has held university appointments at Punjab University, The University of Colorado and LeMoyne Owen College. His work has spanned a wide range of professional interests including group psychotherapy training, clinical hypnosis, cross-cultural psychology, transpersonal psychology and evaluation projects. He has published three books, numerous book chapters and participated in diverse regional, national and international psychology symposium. He has been active in Diversity Memphis and numerous community groups. He served a facilitator of race relations groups, involving the Memphis Police Department and Memphis' African American leadership following the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He also was long-time chair of the Tennessee Psychological Association's Committee on Ethnic Minority Affairs. He is survived by his second wife Bess Khanna, his daughter, Dr. Mukti Khanna of Olympia,
Obituaries John J. Echeverry, PhD John Echeverry died Thursday, August 28, 2008 of colon cancer. He was 54 years old. John had been associated with George Washington University since his graduation from the Clinical/Community Psychology Program at the University of Maryland in College Park. He was a Research Scholar with appointments in the Departments of Psychology, Psychiatry, and Behavioral Science at GWU. He was the Principal Investigator on a National Institute of Drug Abuse Senior Research Fellowship focused on club drug use among gay and bisexual men. His research contributions have also included the study of mood disorders as well as cross-cultural research about the resilience of homeless street youth in Colombia and the United States. John was a member of the APA Minority Fellowship Program Advisory Committee for several years. He was an active supporter of community-based Latino health programs and of the Latino Arts community. He was a Board Member of Nueva Vida, an organization to prevent cancer among Latinas.
Jaswant L. Khanna, PhD Dr. Jaswant Lal Khanna was born in Lahore, India on July 5, 1925 and made his transition from this life on July 13, 2009. Dr. Khanna survived the partition of India 52