This year's American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting will be held in New York, NY.
The 176th Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) will be held Saturday, May 4–Wednesday, May 8, 2024, at New York's Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. Numerous current and former UCSF Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences faculty members and trainees will be in attendance, including the following current UCSF faculty and trainees scheduled to contribute at one or more sessions:
Saturday, May 4
- Gowri Aragam, MD (presenter) – Healthcare Investments (12:45–1:30 p.m., Mental Health Innovation Zone, Exhibit Hall 3 A-B, Javits Center)
- Jeffrey Devido, MD (presenter) – Practice-Based Guidelines: Buprenorphine Treatment in the Age of Fentanyl (8:00–9:30 a.m., Rooms 3D04/3D09, Javits Center)
- Jeffrey Devido, MD (chair) – How to Incorporate Addiction Psychopharmacology Into Psychiatric Practice: A Case-Based Presentation (10:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m., Room 1A10, Javits Center)
- Christina Mangurian, MD, MAS (presenter) – Innovations for Mental Health Disparities and Inequities (12:00–12:45 p.m., Mental Health Innovation Zone, Exhibit Hall 3 A-B, Javits Center)
- Jennifer Mitchell, PhD (presenter) – Psychedelics & Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy: How to Counsel Your Patients (1:30–3:00 p.m., Room 1E07, Javits Center)
- Joseph Pierre, MD (chair) – Conspiracy Theories Gone Wild: Who Believes Them, Why, and How Can We Help? (1:30–3:00 p.m., Room 1A14, Javits Center)
Sunday, May 5
- Bibhav Acharya, MD (presenter) – Cross-Cultural Adaptation and Testing of Motivational Interviewing for Low-Resource Settings: Lessons From a Depression Study in Rural Nepal (8:00–9:30 a.m., Room 1A22, Javits Center)
- Matthew Goldman, MD, MS (chair) – Policy, Design, and Critical Reflections on Behavioral Health Crisis Services for People Experiencing Homelessness (8:00–9:30 a.m., Rooms 1D05-1D06, Javits Center)
- Matthew Goldman, MD, MS (presenter) – Expanding 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline and Crisis Services and Research: What Psychiatrists Need to Know (3:45–5:15 p.m., Room 1E10, Javits Center)
- Jack Turban, MD, MHS (presenter) – Why Is My Psychiatrist on Tiktok!? Answering the Ethical Questions of Psychiatric Involvement in Social Media (3:45–5:15 p.m., Rooms 1A01-1A02, Javits Center)
- Howard Rubin, MD (presenter) – 50 Years After Dr. Anonymous: Remembrance of a Symposium Past Psychiatry: Friend or Foe to Homosexuals? A Dialogue (8:00–9:30 a.m., Room 1A08, Javits Center)
- Farah Zaidi, MD (presenter) – Reviving Lithium: An Undervalued Gem in Psychiatry (8:00–9:30 a.m., Rooms 1A06-1A07, Javits Center)
Special Reception
UCSF alumni, faculty, and trainees at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association will get together starting at 5:00 p.m. for a relaxed evening reception featuring food, drinks, and lively conversation.
Registration for this event has closed. If you have registered and cannot find your confirmation with the location details, please contact Gigi Lopez.
Monday, May 6
- Maggie Aulet-Leon, MD (presenter); Joshua Woolley, MD, PhD (presenter) – Psilocybin Coadministration with Bupropion, Trazodone, and Mirtazapine: A Qualitative Analysis of Online Reports of Safety and Efficacy (8:00–9:30 p.m., Poster Gallery, Javits Center)
- James Reich, MD, MPH (presenter) – Risk Management Strategies in the Treatment of Patients With Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD): Keeping Patients and Clinicians Safe (1:30–3:00 p.m., Rooms 3D04/3D09, Javits Center)
- Jack Turban, MD, MHS (presenter) – Channeling Your Passion and “Inner Outrage” by Promoting Public Policy for Evidence-Based Transgender Care (3:45–5:15 p.m., Room 1E11, Javits Center)
Tuesday, May 7
- Robin Cooper, MD (chair) – Through Graying Hair and a Burning Planet: Climate Change, Aging and Psychiatry (1:30–3:00 p.m., Rooms 3D05/3D08, Javits Center)
- Robin Cooper, MD (presenter) – Is Climate Change Due to a Fossil Fuel Use Disorder? Exploring Some Mental Health Impacts of Addiction Fossil Fuel Use (3:45–5:15 p.m., Room 1A21, Javits Center)
- Farah Zaidi, MD (moderator) – The Neuromodulation Revolution: Novel Approaches to Difficult-to-Treat Neuropsychiatric Illness (8:00–9:30 a.m., Rooms 1A06-1A07, Javits Center)
- Farah Zaidi, MD (presenter) – Trapped in Attempts to Escape Reality? Technological Addictions in the Virtual Era (3:15–3:45 p.m., Rooms 1A04-1A05, Javits Center)
- Tauheed Zaman, MD (presenter) – The 2023-2024 Presidential Initiative: Confronting Addiction From Prevention to Recovery (3:45–5:15 p.m., Rooms 1A23-1A24, Javits Center)
Wednesday, May 8
- Bibhav Acharya, MD (presenter) – Implementation of Collaborative Care Around the World (8:00–9:30 a.m., Room 1A22, Javits Center)
- Valerie A. Gruber, PhD, MPH (presenter); Alexandra Haas, MFT (presenter); Fumi Mitsuishi, MD, MS (presenter) – Contingency Management Innovations in California to Address Overdose Challenge in Hard to Reach/Clinically Complex Populations (3:45–5:15 p.m., Room 1A22, Javits Center)
- Farah Zaidi, MD (moderator) – Technological Addictions: The New Frontier in Addiction Psychiatry (8:00–9:30 a.m., Rooms 1A06-1A07, Javits Center)
Schedule information provided by the American Psychiatric Association. Events are listed using Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). Presenters and presentations are subject to change without prior notice.
About UCSF Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
The UCSF Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and the Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute are among the nation's foremost resources in the fields of child, adolescent, adult, and geriatric mental health. Together they constitute one of the largest departments in the UCSF School of Medicine and the UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences, with a mission focused on research (basic, translational, clinical), teaching, patient care, and public service.
UCSF Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences conducts its clinical, educational, and research efforts at a variety of locations in Northern California, including the UCSF Nancy Friend Pritzker Psychiatry Building; UCSF Langley Porter Psychiatric Hospital; UCSF Medical Centers at Parnassus Heights, Mission Bay, and Mount Zion; UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals in San Francisco and Oakland; Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center; the San Francisco VA Health Care System; UCSF Fresno; and numerous community-based sites around the San Francisco Bay Area.
About the UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences
The UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences, established by the extraordinary generosity of Joan and Sanford I. "Sandy" Weill, brings together world-class researchers with top-ranked physicians to solve some of the most complex challenges in the human brain.
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