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Dear Faculty, Staff and Trainees,
May is National Mental Health Month and celebrates Children's Mental Health Awareness Week. I want to thank the entire Department for your hard work and dedication in serving the citizens of Maryland and beyond. Next May, I would like for us to sponsor a celebratory event highlighting our work in expanding access to quality care with a focus on Mental Wellness. I am looking for volunteers. Anyone interested in helping to work on this event, please contact me!
Additionally, the UMMC has identified Mental Health and Addiction as a top priority over the next three years in their West Baltimore community outreach efforts. We will have opportunities to participate in engagement activities with community residents, attend street fairs providing education and service information and address Stigma among residents, community health workers, and all of our constituents. Please be prepared to respond to these opportunities as they evolve over the next three years!
And finally, as we move into the summer months I want to remind all of our faculty, staff, and trainees to plan for well-deserved relaxing and fun time with family and friends. Take care of yourselves, including tending to your own mental wellness!
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Respectfully recognizing all,
Jill A. RachBeisel, MD
Dr. Irving J. Taylor Associate Professor and Chair,
Department of Psychiatry
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Kay Connor showed invaluable expertise amid the fallout from the arrest of an Anne Arundel elementary school teacher, and over 20 CPS reports over a sexual abuse scandal.
In the words of another faculty member:
"Kay was very helpful in connecting with an appropriate resource to offer evidence-based education and outreach to very upset and overwhelmed parents and families and now they are working on scheduling a webinar for next week. I discussed case with one of our Child Protection Team pediatricians and our concern that families have been sharing info on non-evidence based resources that they have been seeking out so I am grateful that there will be an appropriate forum for parents to learn about better resources and options. One of the several families I spoke with was referred to us via Daniel Mullins at School of Pharmacy since he had a former trainee whose family was impacted, and he also expressed his gratitude for the timely information and support. Kay also did some rapid networking with NCTSN to quickly obtain updated educational materials. Really a huge help for these families!"
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Debbie Williams was just recognized for 50 years of service to UMMC, including more than a decade spent working at our own Department of Psychiatry.
Congratulations on a long and distinguished career, Debbie!
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I want to call attention to the great work being done by our Psychiatric Assessment and Referral Center (PARC) for all of the great services this center provides to both hospitals to ensure that our behavioral health patients are appropriately reviewed for admission, obtain a pre-authorization, review all commitment paperwork, and collaborate with our admitting psychiatric providers, as well as for facilitating placement arrangements for those BH patients in need of admission and services that we cannot accommodate.
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Welcoming a New Addition to Our Department | |
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In a few days, Dr. Samantha Miller will be joining our Department.
Dr. Miller trained in psychiatry at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx. Before moving to Maryland in 2022, she worked for several years at Montefiore providing psychiatric care for patients in an opioid treatment program. She has a special interest in exploring the benefits of engaging art and nature for health and recovery, and is enjoying getting to know the city of Baltimore!
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The 2024 American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Legislative Conference | |
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The Child and Adolescent psychiatry fellows attended the 2024 American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry’s Legislative Conference on April 15 and 16 in Washington DC. They met with elected officials to advocate for the integration of pediatric behavioral health care across a wide range of child-facing systems and for the recruitment and retention of a diverse, evidence-informed pediatric mental health workforce.
Left to right: Chelsea Cosner, MD, Tanvi Gupta MD, Hannah Pauling MD, Danielle Day, MD, Mark Mazer, MD, and Tripti Soni, MD.
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May is the final month for community building circles for this academic year. For FY25, we will be offering monthly open community building circles for those who have not yet been able to attend. Circles will now be offered on a regular basis as a part of the demonstration of our department’s commitment to establishing a culture that supports Belonging and Inclusion. Please note, circles remain voluntary and there is no expectation for anyone who is uncertain or uncomfortable participating in circles to attend them or feel forced to attend. We encourage colleagues who have attended circle to continue to invite others to participate and give more context to the experience if needed.
All May circles will be in the same location, the CL conference room located on the first floor of the main hospital in the shock trauma hallway (close to the cafeteria and trauma security officer station). The room number is P1H02. The hospital address is 22 S. Greene Street. There will be a sign on the door.
The dates for the May circles along with sign up links are below:
Mon, May 13 4pm – 4:45pm https://volunteersignup.org/FEQ4L
Thurs, May 16 7:30am – 8:30 am https://volunteersignup.org/ETPW9
Mon, May 20 12-1pm https://volunteersignup.org/Q8EP4
Thurs, May 30 10-11am https://volunteersignup.org/4YP9Y
The Diversity Committee will meet on Thurs, May 23 at 4pm. See the meeting link here: https://umaryland.zoom.us/j/97407561683?pwd=ZWpoTW5ET1ROWVZPNW04YXpnT3JHUT09
All who are interested are encouraged to register for a free webinar sponsored by the AAMC which focuses on “Developing Diverse and Inclusive Leaders within Academic Medicine”. There are several dates in May. May 6, 21, and 24.
Please see the registration link here: https://aamc.elevate.commpartners.com/products/developing-diverse-and-inclusive-leaders-within-academic-medicine-series-ideas?utm_source=sfmc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ideas&utm_content=webinar#tab-product_tab_overview
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Request for Proposals Now Open! The 2024 Annual Conference on Advancing School Mental Health | |
Save the Date! The 2024 Annual Conference on Advancing School Mental Health will be December 5-7 in Orlando, Florida. This year’s conference theme is Promoting Well-Being in School. The National Center for School Mental Health (NCSMH) is accepting proposals for conference presentations through May 20. Registration will open this summer. Visit the conference webpage to submit a proposal and contact conference director Dr. Sylvia McCree-Huntley if you have questions. Subscribe to the NCSMH listserv to receive email announcements about this conference. We hope to see you in Florida! | |
Mark Your Calendars... Upcoming Faculty Candidate Seminars | |
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Kahlert Institute for Addiction Medicine Faculty Candidate Seminar
Presenter: Peter Manza, PhD,
Research Fellow, National Institute on Alcohol and Alcoholism, National Institutes of Health
Title: The Role of Dopamine Dynamics in Drug Reward and Addiction Recovery.
Date: Wednesday, May 15, 2024, 9 am -10 am
Location IHV, 6th Floor Conference Room
Kahlert Institute for Addiction Medicine Faculty Candidate Seminar
Title: Phases I, II, and III Randomized Controlled Trials - Pharmacotherapies and Devices for Substance Use Disorders
Presenter: Christopher D. Verrico, PhD,
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Pharmacology, Baylor College of Medicine
Date: May 23, 2024, 9:00 am -10:00 am
Location: IHV, 6th Floor Conference Room
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Don't Miss: Our Next Faculty Meeting on Thursday | |
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Our next faculty meeting will be held at 12:00 on Thursday, May 9, at the Elmore Room in the Campus Center.
Lunch will be provided!
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Dr. Anique Forrester received the Faculty Honoree of the year award from the University of Maryland School of Medicine 2024 graduating class of SNMA. SNMA is a national student organization committed to supporting current and future underrepresented minority students. This award is bestowed by the executive board to a faculty member who embodies their mission and has been involved in supporting student members.
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Dr. Stephanie Hare was awarded a federal grant on Tuesday, April 30, totaling $177,866. This five-year grant from the National Institute of Mental Health will enable Stephanie and her team to study cognitive and neural correlates of TMS motor intracortical inhibition in schizophrenia.
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Dr. Ben Israel was quoted in a Behavioral Health Business article on the SAMHSA specific definition of trauma, and how the "Three Es" of an event or series of events, the experience of those events, and long-lasting adverse effects of said events aren't perfect indicators of trauma, so researchers should add "a teaspoon or two of thoughtful discretion" when identifying trauma in patients.
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Dr. Sam Reaves presented at the annual School Social Work Association of America Conference in Baltimore this March. Dr. Reaves shared information about the SHAPE System website and how it can support school teams to improve their comprehensive school mental health systems.
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Aijah K. B. Goodwin, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, affiliated with the National Center for School Mental Health and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Outpatient Clinic presented at the annual Society for Research on Adolescence conference in Chicago, Illinois on the process and considerations of equitable social media recruitment entitled "Reaching Black Teens Where They Are: Leveraging Social Media for Mental Health Research."
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Dr. Richard Goldberg published "Peer specialist-led interventions in primary care at the Veterans Health Administration: An Integrative Review" in Psychological Services. To see the study's findings, you can view an advance online publication here.
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Drs. Tripti Soni and Chelsea Cosner wrote an article, "Understanding the Social Drivers for LGBTQIA+ Youth Suicide" that was published in Elsevier. Until June 20, you can access the share link on ScienceDirect with no sign up, registration, or fees required.
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In Case You Missed It: Wednesday's Conte Seminar | |
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May 1, 1 PM
Monthly Conte Center Seminar, Maryland Psychiatric Research Center
Daniel R. Weinberger, M.D.
Director, Lieber Institute for Brain Development
Professor of Psychiatry, Neurology, Neuroscience and Genetic Medicine
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
“Genes to Drug according to the Lieber Institute for Brain Development”
(Host: R. Schwarcz)
Link: https://umaryland.zoom.us/j/94828140912?pwd=c21LcWdYbmNzWGZPQWkweXd2V2N5QT09
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A Link to Yesterday's Grand Rounds | |
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