Schedule of Speakers: APA 2024
The 2024 American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting taking place in New York City (and virtually) May 4-8 is fast approaching! Check out this list of Columbia-affiliated sessions, with faculty participating in nearly 75 sessions over four days. Be sure to return to this page for any updates and use the hashtag #APAAM24 for your social media posts during the event. We look forward to seeing you there!
APA SESSION SPEAKERS AND MODERATORS – MAY 4–8
Saturday May 4
8:00 AM – 9:30 AM
Chair: Jeffrey Cohen, PsyD – Validation: A Live Demonstration
Location: Room 1A03, Javits Center
Chair: Luis Filipe Gomes Pereira, MD, Presenter: Adrienne Mishkin, MD – Opioids in Medically Complex Patients: Old Challenges, New Perspectives
Location: Room 1E08, Javits Center
Chair: Sam Lookatch, PhD, Presenters: Aimee Chiligiris, PsyD, Elizabeth Evans, MD – Motivational Enhancement and Cannabis Use: Implementing a Brief Cannabis Cessation Protocol
Location: Room 1E09, Javits Center
Chair: John J. Mariani, MD, Presenters: Frances Levin, MD, Sandra Comer, PhD – Practice–Based Guidelines: Buprenorphine Treatment in the Age of Fentanyl
Location: Rooms 3D04, 3D09, Javits Center
Presenter: Deborah Hasin, PhD – DSM: Then and Now
Location: Rooms 3D05, 3D08, Javits Center
Chair: Abhishek Jain, MD – New York and Amsterdam 400 Years Later: Comparing Civil Commitment and Involuntary Treatment Laws Across the Atlantic
Location: Room 1E13, Javits Center
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Chair: A. Jacques Ambrose, MD MPH MBA – “E3 of AI”: Equity, Errors, and Ethics of Artificial Intelligence in Vulnerable Populations with Substance Use Disorder
Location: Room 1E16, Javits Center
1:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Eve Caligor, MD – Understanding and Treating Borderline Personality Organization: Transference–Focused Psychotherapy
Personality Disorders Course Clinical Updates Paid Course ($)
Location: Empire/Hudson/Chelsea, Marriott Marquis
1:30 PM – 3:00 PM
Chair: A. Jacques Ambrose, MD, MPH, MBA, Presenter, Katharine Kim Brewster, MD –
The Road(s) Not Taken: Nontraditional Careers and Opportunities Beyond the Academic Medicine Paths
Location: Room 1A03, Javits Center
3:45 PM – 5:15 PM
Presenter: A. Jacques Ambrose, MD, MPH, MBA – Navigating the Storm: Understanding Irritability and Disruptive Behaviors in Youth
Location: Rooms 1A06–1A07, Javits Center
Presenter: Carl Erik Fisher, MD – Alternative Harm Reduction Approaches for Treating SUDs in Minoritized Communities
Location: Room 1E11, Javits Center
Presenter: Jonathan Slater, MD – Medical Narrative: A Tool of Humanistic Innovation
Location: Room 1E17, Javits Center
Presenter: Derek M. Blevins, MD – Telehealth Best Practices
Location: Room 1A12, Javits Center
Discussant: David Forrest, MD – Best Minds: How Allen Ginsberg Made Revolutionary Poetry From Madness
Location: Rooms 1A17–1A18, Javits Center
Sunday May 5
8:00 AM – 9:30 AM
Presenter: Eve Caligor, MD – Multiple Faces of Narcissism: Toward A Conceptual Integration
Location: Rooms 1A01–1A02, Javits Center
Chair: Arthur Robin Williams, MD – 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 – Mental Health and Wellbeing: An Interactive Workshop for Trainees
Location: Rooms 3D02, 3D11(Learning Lab), Javits Center
Presenter: Evelyn Attia, MD – Eating Disorders: An Overview of Recent Developments
Location: Rooms 3D04, 3D09, Javits Center
Presenter: George Sayde, MD, MPH – Beyond the Couch: Psychotherapeutic Interventions in Acute Settings
Location: Room 1A12, Javits Center
Chair: Samuel Wesley Jackson, MD – 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
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Discussant: Jon Alan Levenson, MD – 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, Presenter: 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 – 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, Chair: Pamela Meersand – 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 – Critical Care Psychiatry – A New Subspecialty in Consultation Psychiatry
Location: Room 1A08, Javits Center
Presenter: Adjoa Smalls–Mantey, MD, DPhil – Psychiatrists in the Public: Professional Development With Social Media Use
Location: Room 1E09, Javits Center
1:30 PM – 3:00 PM
Chair: Milton Wainberg, MD – Can We Eliminate Mental Health Disparities?
Location: Rooms 1A19–1A20, Javits Center
Chair: Paul Appelbaum, MD, Presenter: Natalie Gukasyan, MD – Challenges in the Use of Psychedelic Compounds for Psychiatric Treatment
Location: Rooms 1A23–1A24, Javits Center
Chair: Stephanie Le Melle, MD, Presenter: Jovanna March – Role Clarity, Optimal Inclusion, and Career Development of Peer Specialists
Location: Room 1E07, Javits Center
Presenter: Arthur Robin Williams, MD – 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 – 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
3:45 PM – 5:15 PM
Chair: Laurel Mayer, MD, Presenter: Sara Nash, MD – 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, MD – Navigating Recent Advances in The Field of Cognitive Impairment and Dementia
Location: Room 1E13, Javits Center
Presenter: Abhishek Jain, MD – Safe Spaces and the Evolving Problem of Workplace Violence in Healthcare: Strategies, Synergies, and Solutions
Location: Room 1E14, Javits Center
Monday May 6
8:00 AM – 9:30 AM
Chair: Jean–Marie Alvez–Bradford, MD, Presenter: Omid Cohensedgh – 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 – ACLP Presidential Symposium: Hot Topics in Consultation–Liaison Psychiatry Across the Lifespan
Location: Rooms 1A21, Javits Center
Presenter: Kelly Posner, PhD – The Future of Suicide Prevention?
Location: Room 1E12, Javits Center
1:30 PM – 3:00 PM
Presenter: Robert Michael Kertzner, MD – Psychological Well–being and Positive Mental Health in LGB Adults
Location: Rooms 1A19–1A20, Javits Center
Presenter: Michael B First, MD – Psychiatric Diagnosis at a Crossroads: Where Do We Go From Here?
Location: Room 1E12, Javits Center
Presenter: M. Katherine Shear, MD – Prolonged Grief: A Post–Loss Stress Disorder – Learning to Recognize and Treat It
Location: Room 1E16, Javits Center
Chair: Richard G. Hersh, MD – 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 – 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 – 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
3:45 PM – 5:15 PM
Chair: Maria Mirabela Bodic, MD – A Crisis Roadmap: Helping Trainees Envision Ideal Mental Health Crisis Services for the Future
Location: Room 1A12, Javits Center
Tuesday May 7
8:00 AM – 9:30 AM
Chair: Eve Caligor, MD – 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 – Words Will Never Hurt Me: Examining the Stigma of Addiction
Location: Room 1E10, Javits Center
Discussant: Abhishek Jain, MD – “Does Not Meet Criteria:” Increasing Clinical Access for Complex Cases with Aggression, Personality Pathology, Trauma, and Substance Use
Location: Room 1E13, Javits Center
8:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Director: Steven E. Hyler, MD – Beyond the Couch: AI Chatbots as Emerging Tools in Psychiatry
Location: Broadway North, Marriott Marquis
Director: John C. Markowitz, MD – Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT)
Location: Gotham, Marriott Marquis
1:30 PM–3:00 PM
Chair: Claire C. Holderness, MD, Presenters: James Rim, JD, MD, Yaakov S Green, MD, MBA Discussant: Elizabeth Ford, MD – 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 – Early Psychosis Care: From Raise to Epinet and Beyond
Location: Room 1E11, Javits Center
Presenter: Milton Wainberg, MD – 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 – 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 – The Missing Face of Catatonia: An Overview of Catatonia in the Context of Addiction
Location: Room 1E07, Javits Center
3:45 PM– 5:15 PM
Presenter: Brian Fallon, MD – Long Hauler Psychiatric Syndromes
Location: Room 1A12, Javits Center
Presenter: Jeremy Douglas Kidd, MD, MPH – The 2023–2024 Presidential Initiative: Confronting Addiction from Prevention to Recovery
Location: Rooms 1A23–1A24, Javits Center
Discussant: Milton Wainberg, MD – Guarding Both Mind and Body: What Psychiatrists Need to Know for Integrating Prep for HIV Prevention Into Psychiatric Care
Location: Room 1E17, Javits Center
Wednesday May 8
8:00 AM – 9:30 AM
Presenter: Edward Nunes, MD – Treatments for Comorbid Depression and Opioid Use Disorder Revisited: Research Updates and Future Directions
Location: Room 1E08, Javits Center
Chair: Frank Yeomans, MD – Treating Narcissistic Personality: Transference–Focused Psychotherapy
Location: Room 1E12, Javits Center
Chair: Sudhakar Shenoy, MD – International Medical Graduates (IMGs) after training: What should I do? Where do I go? What do I become?
Location: Room 1E17, Javits Center
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Chair: Kellie Gergoudis, Presenters: Jeffrey Zabinski, MD, Paula Askalsky – Psychotic Symptoms and Neurological Conditions, Separating the Neuro from the Psych
Location: Rooms 1D05–1D06, Javits Center
Presenter: Melissa Arbuckle, MD – Building Skills in Leadership & Scholarship: A Trainee Bootcamp for Career Development
Location: Rooms 1A17–1A18, Javits Center
Presenter: Christopher Landry, MD – The Hole in Whole Person Care: Psychosocial Rehabilitation
Location: Room 1E13, Javits Center
Presenters: Joshua A. Gordon, MD, PhD, Steven Hyman, MD, Thomas R. Insel, MD – 75 Years of the National Institute of Mental Health: Current and Former Directors Perspective
Location: Rooms 3D04, 3D09, Javits Center
1:30 PM – 3:00 PM
Presenter: Michael Compton, MD – 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 – Prolonged Grief Disorder and the Brain Reward System
Location: Room 1A10, Javits Center
Chair: Richard G. Hersh, MD – Applying Transference–Focused Psychotherapy (TFP) Principles in General Psychiatry: Practical Guidelines for Treating Patients With Personality Disorders
Location: Rooms 1A21, Javits Center