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, MDMotivational Enhancement and Cannabis Use: Implementing a Brief Cannabis Cessation Protocol
Location: Room 1E09, Javits Center

Chair: John J. Mariani, MD,  Presenters: Frances Levin, MDSandra Comer, PhDPractice–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, MDNew 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, MBANavigating the Storm: Understanding Irritability and Disruptive Behaviors in Youth 
Location: Rooms 1A06–1A07, Javits Center

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

Presenter: Jonathan Slater, MDMedical Narrative: A Tool of Humanistic Innovation
Location: Room 1E17, Javits Center

Presenter: Derek M. Blevins, MDTelehealth Best Practices
Location: Room 1A12, Javits Center

Discussant: David Forrest, MDBest 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, MDMultiple 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, MDEating Disorders: An Overview of Recent Developments
Location: Rooms 3D04, 3D09, Javits Center

Presenter: George Sayde, MD, MPHBeyond the Couch: Psychotherapeutic Interventions in Acute Settings
Location: Room 1A12, Javits Center

Chair: Samuel Wesley Jackson, MDPolicy, 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, MDBringing 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 MeersandCharacters Remaining: Emerging Adulthood: A Psychodynamic Approach to the New Developmental Phase of the 21st Century
Location: Room 1A10, Javits Center

Presenter: George Sayde, MD, MPHCritical Care Psychiatry – A New Subspecialty in Consultation Psychiatry
Location: Room 1A08, Javits Center

Presenter: Adjoa Smalls–Mantey, MD, DPhilPsychiatrists in the Public: Professional Development With Social Media Use
Location: Room 1E09, Javits Center

1:30 PM – 3:00 PM

Chair: Milton Wainberg, MDCan We Eliminate Mental Health Disparities?
Location: Rooms 1A19–1A20, Javits Center

Chair: Paul Appelbaum, MD, Presenter: Natalie Gukasyan, MDChallenges 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, MDTelemedicine 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, MDPsychotherapies 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, MDNavigating Recent Advances in The Field of Cognitive Impairment and Dementia
Location: Room 1E13, Javits Center

Presenter: Abhishek Jain, MDSafe 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, MDACLP Presidential Symposium: Hot Topics in Consultation–Liaison Psychiatry Across the Lifespan
Location: Rooms 1A21, Javits Center

Presenter: Kelly Posner, PhDThe Future of Suicide Prevention?
Location: Room 1E12, Javits Center

1:30 PM – 3:00 PM

Presenter: Robert Michael Kertzner, MDPsychological Well–being and Positive Mental Health in LGB Adults
Location: Rooms 1A19–1A20, Javits Center

Presenter: Michael B First, MDPsychiatric 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, MDRisk 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, MDBreaking 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, MDBeyond the Couch: AI Chatbots as Emerging Tools in Psychiatry
Location: Broadway North, Marriott Marquis

Director: John C. Markowitz, MDInterpersonal 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, PhDEarly Psychosis Care: From Raise to Epinet and Beyond
Location: Room 1E11, Javits Center

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

Presenter: Elie Aoun, MDNew 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, MDLong 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, MDGuarding 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, MDTreatments for Comorbid Depression and Opioid Use Disorder Revisited: Research Updates and Future Directions
Location: Room 1E08, Javits Center

Chair: Frank Yeomans, MDTreating Narcissistic Personality: Transference–Focused Psychotherapy
Location: Room 1E12, Javits Center

Chair: Sudhakar Shenoy, MDInternational 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 AskalskyPsychotic Symptoms and Neurological Conditions, Separating the Neuro from the Psych
Location: Rooms 1D05–1D06, Javits Center 

Presenter: Melissa Arbuckle, MDBuilding 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, MDProlonged 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