APA Annual Meeting

8:00am-9:30am

Chair: Jeffrey Cohen, PsyD (Columbia)
Validation: A Live Demonstration
Location: Room 1A03, Javits Center 

Presenter: Adrienne Mishkin, MD, Luis Filipe Gomes Pereira, MD Discussant (Columbia)
Opioids in Medically Complex Patients: Old Challenges, New Perspectives
Location: Room 1E08, Javits Center 

Chair: Sam Lookatch, PhD (Columbia)
Presenter: Aimee Chiligiris, PsyD, Elizabeth Evans, MD (Columbia)
Motivational Enhancement and Cannabis Use: Implementing a Brief Cannabis Cessation Protocol
Location: Room 1E09, Javits Center 

Chair: John J. Mariani, MD (Columbia)
Presenter: Frances Levin, MD, Sandra Comer, PhD (Columbia)
Practice-Based Guidelines: Buprenorphine Treatment in the Age of Fentanyl
Location: Rooms 3D04, 3D09, Javits Center 

Presenter: Deborah Hasin, PhD (Columbia)
DSM: Then and Now
Location: Rooms 3D05, 3D08, Javits Center 

Chair: Abhishek Jain, MD (Columbia)
New York and Amsterdam 400 Years Later: Comparing Civil Commitment and Involuntary Treatment Laws Across the Atlantic
Location: Room 1E13, Javits Center

Speakers: Giselle Appel; Jonathan Avery, MD (Weill Cornell Medicine)
Affective Computing and the Mind: Harnessing Novel Technology to Improve Medical Education for Substance Use Disorders
Location: Room 1E07, Javits Center 

10:30am-12:00pm

Chair: A. Jacques Ambrose, MD, MPH, MBA (Columbia)
“E3 of AI”: Equity, Errors, and Ethics of Artificial Intelligence in Vulnerable Populations with Substance Use Disorder
Location: Room 1E16, Javits Center

Presenters: Giselle Appel; Bernadine Ha, MD; Charalambia Louka, MD; Abdallah Tom, MD (Weill Cornell Medicine)
POSTER—Omission and Commission in Morally Injurious Experiences Among COVID-19 Healthcare Professionals
Location: TBD

1:00pm-5:00pm

Eve Caligor, MD (Columbia)
Understanding and Treating Borderline Personality Organization: Transference-Focused Psychotherapy 
Personality Disorders Course Clinical Updates Paid Course ($) 
Location: Empire/Hudson/Chelsea, Marriott Marquis

Speakers: John Clarkin, MD; Frank Yeomans, MD (Weill Cornell Medicine)
Understanding and Treating Borderline Personality Organization: Transference-Focused Psychotherapy
Location: Empire/Hudson/Chelsea, Marriott Marquis

1:30pm-3:00pm

Chair: A. Jacques Ambrose, MD, MPH, MBA (Columbia)
Presenter: Katharine Kim Brewster, MD (Columbia)
The Road(s) Not Taken: Nontraditional Careers and Opportunities Beyond the Academic Medicine Paths 
Location: Room 1A03, Javits Center

Speaker: Katharine A Phillips, MD (Weill Cornell Medicine)
Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders: Clinical Presentations and Treatments
Location: Rooms 1A06-1A07, Javits Center 

Speaker: Samantha V. Boardman, MD (Weill Cornell Medicine)
Practicing Positive Psychiatry at Individual and Community Levels
Location: Room 1E10, Javits Center

3:45pm-5:15pm

Presenter: A. Jacques Ambrose, MD, MPH, MBA (Columbia)
Navigating the Storm: Understanding Irritability and Disruptive Behaviors in Youth 
Location: Rooms 1A06-1A07, Javits Center 

Presenter: Carl Erik Fisher (Columbia)
Alternative Harm Reduction Approaches for Treating SUDs in Minoritized Communities 
Location: Room 1E11, Javits Center 

Presenter: Jonathan Slater, MD (Columbia)
Medical Narrative: A Tool of Humanistic Innovation 
Location: Room 1E17, Javits Center 

Presenter: Derek M. Blevins, MD (Columbia)
Telehealth Best Practices
Location: Room 1A12, Javits Center 

Discussant: David Forrest, MD (Columbia)
Best Minds: How Allen Ginsberg Made Revolutionary Poetry From Madness 
Location: Rooms 1A17-1A18, Javits Center

8:00am-9:30am

Eve Caligor, MD (Columbia)
Multiple Faces of Narcissism: Toward A Conceptual Integration 
Location: Rooms 1A01-1A02, Javits Center 

Chair: Arthur Robin Williams, MD (Columbia)
Building an Opioid Use Disorder Cascade of Care for Clinical and Policy Decision-Making at a Large Public Hospital
Location: Room 1E07, Javits Center 

Speaker: Laurel Mayer, MD (Columbia)
Mental Health and Wellbeing: An Interactive Workshop for Trainees 
Location: Rooms 3D02, 3D11(Learning Lab), Javits Center 

Evelyn Attia, MD (Columbia)
Eating Disorders: An Overview of Recent Developments
Location: Rooms 3D04, 3D09, Javits Center 

Presenter: George Sayde, MD, MPH (Columbia)
Beyond the Couch: Psychotherapeutic Interventions in Acute Settings
Location: Room 1A12, Javits Center 

Chair: Samuel Wesley Jackson, MD (Columbia)
Policy, Design, and Critical Reflections on Behavioral Health Crisis Services for People Experiencing Homelessness 
Location: Rooms 1D05-1D06, Javits Center 

Presenter: David Hoffman, JD (Columbia/School of Professional Studies)
On Decisional Capacity, Treatment Over Objection, and Hope in the Care of Severe SUDs 
Location: Room 1E08, Javits Center

Speaker: Evelyn Attia, MD (Weill Cornell Medicine)
Eating Disorders: An Overview of Recent Developments
Location: Rooms 3D04, 3D09, Javits Center

10:30am-12:00pm

Discussant: Jon Alan Levenson, MD (Columbia)
Assessment and Management of Long Covid in the Outpatient Setting: Clinical Recommendations From the APA Council on Consult-Liaison Psychiatry
Location: Rooms 1A15-1A16, Javits Center 

Presenter: Elizabeth Ford, MD, Kati Lake, MA, MS (current doctoral student Teacher’s College)
Responding to Reports of Sexual Violence on Psychiatric Inpatient Units 
Location: Room 1E06, Javits Center 

Presenter: Patrice Malone, MD (Columbia)
Bringing the Village to the Children: A Systems of Care Approach for Addressing Disparities in Addictions Care and Treatment for Adolescents 
Location: Room 1E16, Javits Center 

Chair: Karen Gilmore, MD (Columbia)
Chair: Pamela Meersand (Columbia)
Characters remaining: Emerging Adulthood: a psychodynamic approach to the new developmental phase of the 21st century 
Location: Room 1A10, Javits Center 

Presenter: George Sayde, MD, MPH (Columbia)
Critical Care Psychiatry - A New Subspecialty in Consultation Psychiatry 
Location: Room 1A08, Javits Center 

Presenter: Adjoa Smalls-Mantey, MD, D.Phil (Columbia)
Psychiatrists in the Public: Professional Development With Social Media Use
Location: Room 1E09, Javits Center

Speakers: Benjamin Brody, MD; Victoria M. Wilkins, MD (Weill Cornell Medicine)
Responding to Reports of Sexual Violence on Psychiatric Inpatient Units
Location: Room 1E06, Javits Center

Presenters: Abdallah Tom, MD; Giselle Appel; Aliyaa Haji; Ziyad Mahfoud, PhD (Weill Cornell Medicine)
POSTER—The Impact of Exposure to Patients with Substance Use Disorders on Stigma Among Medical Students in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) 
Location: TBD

Speaker: Jihoon Ha, MD (Weill Cornell Medicine)
Critical Care Psychiatry – A New Subspecialty in Consultation Psychiatry
Location: Room 1A08, Javits Center

1:30pm-3:00pm

Chair: Milton Wainberg, MD (Columbia)
Can We Eliminate Mental Health Disparities? 
Location: Rooms 1A19-1A20, Javits Center 

Chair: Paul Appelbaum, MD (Columbia)
Presenter: Natalie Gukasyan, MD (Columbia)
Challenges in the Use of Psychedelic Compounds for Psychiatric Treatment 
Location: Rooms 1A23-1A24, Javits Center 

Chair: Stephanie Le Melle, MD (Columbia)
Presenter: Jovanna March (Columbia)
Role Clarity, Optimal Inclusion, and Career Development of Peer Specialists 
Location: Room 1E07, Javits Center 

Presenter: Arthur Robin Williams, MD (Columbia)
Telemedicine and Addiction Treatment: The Potential Implications for Marginalized Populations In Relation to the Ryan Haight Act) 
Location: Room 1E10, Javits Center 

Presenter: Cesar A. Alfonso, MD (Columbia)
Psychotherapies Targeting Social Determinants of Mental Health 
Location: Rooms 1A21, Javits Center 

Presenter: Michael Wheaton, PhD (Barnard)
Beyond Clutter: A Comprehensive Exploration of Hoarding Disorder and Emerging Research Horizons 
Location: Rooms 1A06-1A07, Javits Center

3:45pm-5:15pm

Chair: Laurel Mayer, MD (Columbia)
Presenter: Sara Nash (Columbia)
Covid-19 Changed the Way We Talk About Burnout and Mental Health: Building Individual and System Level Interventions That Work to Promote Well-Being 
Location: Room 1E07, Javits Center 

Chair and Presenter: Davangere P Devanand (Columbia)
Navigating Recent Advances in The Field of Cognitive Impairment and Dementia 
Location: Room 1E13, Javits Center 

Presenter: Abhishek Jain, MD (Columbia)
Safe Spaces and the Evolving Problem of Workplace Violence in Healthcare: Strategies, Synergies, and Solutions 
Location: Room 1E14, Javits Center

8:00am-9:30am

Chair: Jean-Marie Alvez-Bradford, MD (Columbia)
Presenter: Omid Cohensedgh (Columbia)
Managing Anti-LGBTQ Bias and Racism as a Trainee: Understanding and Addressing Discrimination in Patient-Provider Relationships
Location: Rooms 1A04-1A05, Javits Center 

Presenter: Mark A. Oldham, MD (Columbia)
ACLP Presidential Symposium: Hot Topics in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Across the Lifespan 
Location: Rooms 1A21, Javits Center 

Presenter: Kelly Posner, PhD (Columbia)
The Future of Suicide Prevention? 
Location: Room 1E12, Javits Center

Speakers: Christopher Ceccolini, MD; Tacina Outram, MD; Constance Zhou (Weill Cornell Medicine)
Providing free mental health services to the LGBTQ+ community using an interdisciplinary student-run clinic model
Location: Rooms 1A17-1A18, Javits Center

Presenters: David Hankins, MD; Michael Liu; Jodie Nghiem; Jessica Spellun, MD (Weill Cornell Medicine)
POSTER—Preclinical medical students’ experience leading group dialectical behavior therapy for a student-run mental health clinic: a qualitative study 
Location: TBD

8:00am-5:00pm

Speakers: Catherine A Birndorf, MD; Lauren Osborne, MD (Weill Cornell Medicine)
Update in Reproductive Psychiatry: Clinical, Research, Education and Advocacy Perspectives 
Location: Broadway North, Marriott Marquis

1:30pm-3:00pm

Presenter: Robert Michael Kertzner, MD (Columbia)
Psychological Well-being and Positive Mental Health in LGB Adults
Location: Rooms 1A19-1A20, Javits Center 

Presenter: Michael B First, MD (Columbia)
Psychiatric Diagnosis at a Crossroads: Where Do We Go From Here? 
Location: Room 1E12, Javits Center 

Presenter: M. Katherine Shear, MD (Columbia)
Prolonged Grief: A Post-Loss Stress Disorder - Learning to Recognize and Treat It
Location: Room 1E16, Javits Center 

Chair: Richard G. Hersh, MD (Columbia)
Risk Management Strategies in the Treatment of Patients With Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD): Keeping Patients and Clinicians Safe
Location: Rooms 3D04, 3D09, Javits Center 

Presenters: Abhishek Jain, MD, Elie Aoun, MD (Columbia)
Breaking the Stigma: Psychiatrist’s Role in Sex Offender Treatment
Location: Room 1A12, Javits Center 

Chair: German E Velez, MD
Chem-Sex, the Alchemy of Desire: Exploring the Role of Substance Use in the Sexual Behavior of Gay/Bisexual Men
Location: Rooms 1A15-1A16, Javits Center 

Presenter: Samuel Wesley Jackson, MD (Columbia)
Turning A Patient’s Trauma into A Power Source for Change - A Former Division 1 Football Player & NFL Prospect’s Story of Being Severely Systemically Abused in A Mental Health Crisis Setting
Location: Room 1A08, Javits Center

Speaker: Frank Yeomans, MD (Weill Cornell Medicine)
Getting to “Good Enough” in Psychotherapy Supervision
Location: Room 1A14, Javits Center

Speaker: Anna Lopatin-Dickerman, MD (Weill Cornell Medicine)
Long COVID and Longer term effects of COVID19 : What Every Psychiatrist Should Know
Location: Rooms 1A21, Javits Center

Speaker: Lauren Osborne, MD (Weill Cornell Medicine)
Focus Live! Reproductive Psychiatry: It's Not Just About Postpartum Depression
Location: Room 1E13, Javits Center

3:45pm-5:15pm

Chair: Maria Mirabela Bodic, MD (Columbia)
A Crisis Roadmap: Helping Trainees Envision Ideal Mental Health Crisis Services for the Future
Location: Room 1A12, Javits Center

8:00am-9:30am

Chair: Eve Caligor, MD (Columbia)
Revised APA Guideline for Treatment of Patients with Borderline Personality Disorder: Can It Help Us Understand, Evaluate and Treat Our Patients?
Location: Rooms 1A21, Javits Center

Discussant: Patrice A. Harris, MD, MA (Columbia)
Words Will Never Hurt Me: Examining the Stigma of Addiction
Location: Room 1E10, Javits Center

Discussant: Abhishek Jain, MD (Columbia)
“Does Not Meet Criteria:” Increasing Clinical Access for Complex Cases with Aggression, Personality Pathology, Trauma, and Substance Use
Location: Room 1E13, Javits Center

Speaker: John Clarkin, MD (Weill Cornell Medicine)
Revised APA Guideline for Treatment of Patients with Borderline Personality Disorder: Can it help us understand, evaluate and treat our patients?
Location: Rooms 1A21, Javits Center

8:00am-12:00pm

Director: Steven E. Hyler, MD (Columbia)
Beyond the Couch: AI Chatbots as Emerging Tools in Psychiatry
Location: Broadway North, Marriott Marquis 

Director: John C. Markowitz, MD (Columbia)
Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT)
Location: Gotham, Marriott Marquis

1:30pm-3:00pm

Chair: Claire C. Holderness, MD (Columbia)
Presenters: James Rim, JD, MD, Yaakov S Green, MD, MBA (Columbia)
Discussant: Elizabeth Ford (Columbia)
Shock and Aftershock: Lessons Learned Managing Patient Aggression Toward Staff on an Inpatient Psychiatry Training Unit 
Location: Room 1A10, Javits Center 

Presenter: Sapana Patel, PhD (Columbia)
Early Psychosis Care: From Raise to Epinet and Beyond
Location: Room 1E11, Javits Center 

Presenter: Milton Wainberg, MD (Columbia)
When the Mount Speaks, the Body Heals: Bringing a Brazilian Therapeutic Dialogic Practice to the US
Location: Rooms 3D01, 3D12, Javits Center 

Presenter: Elie Aoun, MD (Columbia)
New Horizons in Addiction and the Law
Location: Room 1E08, Javits Center 

Presenter: German E Velez, MD
Apocalypse Now! Climate Change and Its Impact on the Practice of Psychiatry
Location: Room 1E06, Javits Center 

Chair: Devendra Thakur, MD (Columbia)
The Missing Face of Catatonia: An Overview of Catatonia in the Context of Addiction 
Location: Room 1E07, Javits Center

Speakers: Nathen Spitz, MD; Jessica E. Zonana, MD (Weill Cornell Medicine)
Resident Perspectives on the Digital Kaleidoscope of LGBTQ+ Mental Well-being in the Age of Social Media
Location: Room 1A08, Javits Center

3:45pm-5:15pm

Presenter: Brian Fallon, MD (Columbia)
Long Hauler Psychiatric Syndromes 
Location: Room 1A12, Javits Center 

Presenter: Jeremy Douglas Kidd, MD, MPH (Columbia)
The 2023-2024 Presidential Initiative: Confronting Addiction from Prevention to Recovery
Location: Rooms 1A23-1A24, Javits Center

Discussant: Milton Wainberg, MD (Columbia)
Guarding Both Mind and Body: What Psychiatrists Need to Know for Integrating Prep for HIV Prevention Into Psychiatric Care
Location: Room 1E17, Javits Center

8:00am-9:30am

Presenter: Edward Nunes, MD (Columbia)
Treatments for Comorbid Depression and Opioid Use Disorder Revisited: Research Updates and Future Directions
Location: Room 1E08, Javits Center 

Chair: Frank Yeomans, MD (Columbia)
Treating Narcissistic Personality: Transference-Focused Psychotherapy
Location: Room 1E12, Javits Center 

Chair: Sudhakar Shenoy, MD (Columbia)
International Medical Graduates (IMGs) after training: What should I do? Where do I go? What do I become?
Location: Room 1E17, Javits Center

Speaker: Frank Yeomans, MD (Weill Cornell Medicine)
Treating Narcissistic Personality: Transference-Focused Psychotherapy
Location: Room 1A08, Javits Center

Speaker: Conor Liston, MD, PhD (Weill Cornell Medicine)
Novel pharmacological and neurocircuit-based approaches to advance the treatment of depression
Location: Rooms 1A21, Javits Center

10:30am-12:00pm

Chair: Kellie Gergoudis (Columbia)
Presenters: Jeffrey Zabinski, MD, Paula Askalsky (Columbia)
Psychotic Symptoms and Neurological Conditions, Separating the Neuro from the Psych
Location: Rooms 1D05-1D06, Javits Center 

Presenter: Melissa Arbuckle, MD (Columbia)
Building Skills in Leadership & Scholarship: A Trainee Bootcamp for Career Development
Location: Rooms 1A17-1A18, Javits Center 

Presenter: Christopher Landry, MD (Columbia)
The Hole in Whole Person Care: Psychosocial Rehabilitation

Presenters: Joshua A. Gordon, MD., PhD, Steven Hyman, MD, Thomas R. Insel, MD (Columbia)
75 Years of the National Institute of Mental Health: Current and Former Directors Perspective
Location: Rooms 3D04, 3D09, Javits Center

1:30pm-3:00pm

Presenter: Michael Compton, MD (Columbia)
From Population Health to Policy: Identifying and Addressing Social Needs in a Large and Diverse State
Location: Room 1A03, Javits Center 

Presenter: M. Katherine Shear, MD (Columbia)
Prolonged Grief Disorder and the Brain Reward System
Location: Room 1A10, Javits Center

Chair: Richard G. Hersh, MD (Columbia)
Applying Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (TFP) Principles in General Psychiatry: Practical Guidelines for Treating Patients With Personality Disorders
Location: Rooms 1A21, Javits Center

Speakers: Justin Chen, MD, MPH; Daniel Eden, MD (Weill Cornell Medicine)
Finding Our Lanes: A Roadmap for Collaboration Between Academic Medical Centers and Behavioral Health Technology Companies
Location: Room 1E17, Javits Center

Presenters: Andrew Edelstein; Jodie Nghiem (Weill Cornell Medicine)
POSTER—Metabolic Mania: A Case Report of Ozempic-Induced Psychosis and Literature Review of the Neuropsychiatric Side Effects of GLP-1 Agonists 
Location: TBD