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Dear Faculty, Staff and Trainees,
March is Women’s History Month, and in recognition of that, I am devoting my usual introduction to highlighting three women in our Department who are not only full professors, but nationally and even internationally recognized experts in our field.
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Dr. Julie Kreyenbuhl, PharmaD Deanna Kelly, PharmaD, BCPP Sharon Hoover, PhD | |
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Last year, Dr. Deanna Kelly was selected as one of Maryland's top 100 women for 2023, before receiving the Dr. William and Carol Carpenter Endowed Professorship in Psychiatry last October. Dr. Julie Kreyenbuhl has authored 99 research publications and been cited 9,743 times in the world of academia, and she has received grant funding to develop an intervention to increase screening for metabolic side effects of antipsychotic medications and to study how women Veterans with serious mental illnesses manage these side effects. Dr. Sharon Hoover leads national efforts to support states, districts, and schools in adopting national performance standards of comprehensive school mental health systems. She has consulted on building safe and supportive school mental health systems in China, Canada, New Zealand, Northern Ireland, South Korea, and Ukraine.
Apart from these leaders in our field, our Department is full of trailblazing women making invaluable contributions to psychiatry. I'm honored to work alongside each of you every day.
Respectfully recognizing all,
Jill A. RachBeisel, MD
Dr. Irving J. Taylor Associate Professor and Chair,
Department of Psychiatry
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A Reminder on Tomorrow's Big Event...
Roughly 150 of us have RSVPed to tomorrow's 10th Annual Telemental Health Grand Rounds Event (details below).
A reminder that free lunch will be provided--so if you have already RSVPed "yes," please try to make it!
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Dr. Sarah Kattakuzhy leads the Partnership for HIV/AIDS Progress' Research Initiative as Baltimore Site Director, in addition to working at the Institute of Human Virology and serving as Associate Professor at UMSOM. She has been instrumental to our Department's work in researching infectious diseases and substance abuse disorder.
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Sarah Kubel (picture unavailable) works at the Psychiatric Admittance and Referral Center where she is, to quote Dr. RachBeisel, "a master at coordinating entry across our campus, establishing relationships with referral bases."
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The Diversity Committee remains focused on helping our department to deepen a sense of community and belonging. Please see the dates below for the March Community Building Circles. If you have experienced a circle, please continue to encourage your colleagues to attend.
MTC (300 Armory Place, 2nd Floor): Carruthers Group Room Tues, March 5th 12-1pm https://volunteersignup.org/9XBEP
MTC (300 Armory Place, 2nd Floor): Carruthers Group Room Thurs, March 14th 3-4pm https://volunteersignup.org/9R7CB
Adult Residency Training Program (701 W. Pratt Street): Thurs, March 14th 12-1pm 3rd Floor Conference room https://volunteersignup.org/8P43B
DPSR Center South (1501 S. Edgewood Street, Suite L): Wed, March 20th 12-1pm https://volunteersignup.org/DJ7TJ
Across the campus DEI events:
March 20: The Table Dialogue: ‘Women and the Bias of Professionalism.’
Register here:
http://umaryland.campusgroups.com/InterculturalCenter/rsvp_boot?id=2254029
March 12 and 13: Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Workshops: ‘What Is EDI?’ Register here: http://umbedi.wufoo.com/forms/r1jr02i10om493k/
There is no diversity committee meeting scheduled for the month of March. The committee will meet again on April 25 at 4pm.
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Reminder: Today's Conte Seminar | |
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Announcing: ADepT's New Monthly Initiative
The Advanced Depression Treatment (ADepT) Center is beginning a new monthly translational initiative. This will be a virtual meeting on the 4th Thursday of the month at 12:00 and will alternate each month as either a clinical case discussion or a research presentation.
The research presentation will be geared toward a general medical audience.
If you would like to participate, receive e-mail reminders, and announcements regarding the monthly meeting, you can add your email address to the listserv by clicking here.
Please note: clicking the link will open up a new e-mail window with the e-mail address and subject filled in. Please do not put text in the body of the e-mail, please only click send.
For further information, please contact Todd Gould at (tgould@som.umaryland.edu).
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Speaking of ADepT... From Last Week's Open House
Last we showcased our new Advanced Depression Treatment Center (ADepT). This state-of-the-art facility offers innovative treatment programs including cutting-edge esketamine and transcranial magnetic stimulation rooms.
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A New Addition to UM's Department of Psychology... | |
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Our own Akram Yusuf has been admitted to the Department of Psychology at The University of Maryland at College Park!
Having known and worked with Akram for over two years now, we know Akram would be a great addition to the program, and I speak for everyone in saying how excited we are for her contributions to the field!
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Portfolio Building on a Busy Schedule: An Interview with Dr. Meg Woodbury
Editor's Note: This month, we wanted to share Dr. Woodbury's perspective as a junior clinical faculty member on how she has taken on so many responsibilities and projects while also shouldering a very busy clinical role. Below are her insights on time management, and advice to young professionals who are mapping out their own clinical focus.
How did you get interested in eating disorders?
Since I joined the faculty, one of my clinical roles has been to serve on the pediatric consultation service. Since the pandemic, there has been a significant increase in eating disorder-related hospitalizations, and UMMC was no exception. I started seeing kids with eating problems that were incredibly diverse - in terms of demographics (e.g. age, gender, race/ethnicity), eating symptoms (binging, restrictive eating, etc.), and weight classification (underweight, normal weight, obese). I realized that there is no such thing as a "typical" eating disorder patient, so I wanted to learn more about how to improve our screening of these problems with the overarching goal of supporting early intervention.
You co-founded an eating disorder work group in the department. What are some of the goals and activities of the group and how can other interested faculty, staff, or trainees get involved?
I reached out to Dr. Gloria Reeves to see what she recommended to support these kids on a hospital systems level, and she helped me organize. Additionally, we are fortunate to have a senior clinical eating disorder expert, Dr. Steven Crawford from the Eating Recovery Center, to guide our work. Our early activities have included Dr. Crawford's grand rounds to educate our faculty, staff, and trainees on evaluation and treatment of eating disorders. We also have been working on piloting a screening tool that includes assessment for one of the newer eating disorder diagnoses, namely Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder. Our work group is open to anyone in the Department. Please feel free to reach out to me if you are interested in this topic.
What’s your advice for a young professional who is now mapping out their clinical focus/niche for scholarly activities?
For me, it was helpful to connect scholarly activities with things I was seeing routinely in my clinical services. I was more motivated to read articles and to contact experts because I knew it would help my patients in real time. I also wanted to focus on eating disorders because it is an opportunity to improve care for a condition that is often poorly understood by the public and associated with negative stigma. I was also incredibly lucky to have amazing mentors, like Drs. Reeves and Crawford, who are willing to help me in these new endeavors.
You balance this work with busy clinical and teaching responsibilities. Do you have any time management tips to achieve it all in just a 24-hour day?
I don't think of myself as a time management expert, but I learned from the pandemic that it is important to be adaptable and flexible. I try to seek guidance from my supervisors on how to prioritize and be responsive to unexpected demands and changes. I think it is also ok to ask for help when you need support. I try to also keep track of small goals, so I don't get discouraged along the way that it takes time to be successful in big changes.
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Congratulations to Dr. Andrew van der Vaart, recipient of the APA's Area 3 Resident-Fellow Member (RFM) Award!
Each year, the two residency programs (ourselves, and that of Johns Hopkins) nominate a resident or fellow for this prestigious award. Andrew was chosen for this distinction by the APA Area 3 Council for his excellence in research, clinical work, teaching, and leadership.
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Dr. Zofia Kozak was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. Alpha Omega Alpha seeks “the encouragement of a high standard of character and conduct among medical students and graduates, and the recognition of high attainment in the medical sciences, practice and related fields,” or more simply “to recognize and perpetuate excellence in the medical profession.”
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Congratulations to Our Center for Excellence on Problem Gambling
Earlier this month, the Center received a $5,211,906/year grant with a five-year renewable option to continue its work on educating the public and helping people who suffer from problem gambling in all its forms. This six-year grant award, totaling $31,271,436 is a huge vote of confidence in the Center for all the work it does.
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Dr. Peter Phalen's research was cited in a recent New York Times article on suicide prevention via red flag laws.
Congratulations, Peter, on your important work gaining national recognition!
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Dr. Deanna Kelly was quoted in an article in National Geographic about the mysterious link between the keto diet and diminished symptoms of epilepsy.
To see her observations on that happens to the brain as our metabolisms are essentially forced to switch gears, click here.
Dr. Chris Miller was interviewed in the Live Well & Thrive podcast about how to learn self-compassion and the art of being kind to ourselves. This episode focuses on being more gracious to ourselves as we go about our daily lives. Listen here.
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Aijah K. B. Goodwin, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, presented a half-day workshop “Let’s Continue to Listen to Our Youth: Strategies to Engage Black Youth in Mental Health Care” virtually to mental health providers through the Portland DBT Institute on January 12, 2024.
Cindy Schaeffer, PhD, Associate Professor in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, delivered a Grand Rounds talk on February 1 entitled, "Digitizing Mental Health Interventions for Youth and Families: App-ortunities and Challenges." Dr. Schaeffer provided an overview of the potential for "digital therapeutics" to fill service gaps and broaden the reach of evidence-based treatments, using her own app iKinnect, for youth with serious conduct problems, as an example."
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On December 5-7, the National Center for School Mental Health (NCSMH) hosted the 2023 Annual Conference on Advancing School Mental Health in New Orleans, LA. The conference was led by Conference Director Dr. Sylvia McCree-Huntley and supported by Taneisha Carter, Janice Mace, Perrin Robinson, Christina Walker, and the rest of the NCSMH team.
Nearly 2,500 attendees from all 50 states (and some international!) gathered for three days of keynotes, conference sessions, posters, symposia, networking, and more. The NCSMH is incredibly grateful to everyone who supported this endeavor and traveled to attend!
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Mark Your Calendar: Friday, May 10 | | | | |
