Grand Rounds

American Medical Association (AMA)
The University of Minnesota, Interprofessional Continuing Education designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

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Dr. Alexander (Sandy) Simpson is a senior scientist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) and holds the Research Chair in Forensic Psychiatry at CAMH and the University of Toronto.

He is also a full professor in the Division of Forensic Psychiatry within the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto.

He has served in directorial and advisory roles on multiple national and international forensic organizations.  He is a member of the editorial board of Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health, the Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, Frontiers in Psychiatry, British Journal of Psychiatry Open, International Journal of Forensic Mental Health, Rassegna Italiana of Criminologia and the International Journal of Risk and Recovery. He is a member of the Council of Reviewers of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).

He has over 140 refereed papers in the scientific literature, as well as one book, many book chapters and monographs. He is an occasional columnist for The Globe and Mail. Read more.

Talk Title: The Evolution and Implementation of Culturally Competent Care in Forensic Psychiatry in Canada

Following the talk, learners will be better able to:

1. Understand the concepts of cultural competence and cultural safety as applied to forensic mental health care
2. Understand the origins of these terms and the challenge they present to practice
3. Understand a Canadian example of how to tackle these issues at clinical and service levels.
    

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Velma McBride Murry, PhD
Dr. Velma McBride Murry, Associate Provost, Office of Research and Innovation, holds the Lois Autrey Betts Endowed Chair, and is a University Distinguished Professor in Departments of Health Policy [Vanderbilt School of Medicine] and Human and Organizational Development [Peabody College]. She is Past President of the Society for Research on Adolescence and incoming President of The International Consortium of Developmental Science Societies. McBride Murry is one of the 100 elected members to the 2020 Class of the National Academic of Medicine.  She was recently appointed to the National Institutes of Health National Advisory Mental Health Research Council. Her research examines the significance of context to everyday life experiences of African American families and youth, focusing on processes through which racism, and other social structural stressors, cascade through families to influence parenting and family functioning, developmental outcomes, and adjustment among youth, during critical developmental periods from middle childhood through young adulthood. Learn more. 

Talk Title: Advancing Behavioral Health Equity through Strength-Based, Culturally Tailored Family-Centered Programs

Following the talk, learners will be better able to:

1. Develop greater awareness of system and interpersonal barriers and facilitators of  behavioral health help seeking behaviors among Black/African American families  
2. Gain insights on ways to leverage culturally strength-based assets to address behavioral health disparities for Black/African American adolescents and caregivers.
    

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Richard Martinez, MD 
Director, Forensic Psychiatry Services and Training Chair Professor at UC Denver, Anschutz School of Medicine

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Mark George, MD 
Director Magnetic Brain Stimulation Laboratory Medical University of South Carolina

Dr. Mark George built a campus-wide research brain imaging division and the brain stimulation laboratory in the Department of Psychiatry. As an undergraduate student in philosophy at Davidson College, Dr. George began studying the relationship between mind and brain, or brain/behavior relationships. He has continued this interest throughout his career with a focus on using brain imaging and brain stimulation to understand depression and devise new treatments. He was one of the first to use functional brain imaging during normal emotions as well as in depression and mania. He has grown the science of brain stimulation, both in terms of how the treatments work in the brain, and in critically evaluating their therapeutic applications, especially in treating depression.  He has been continuously funded by NIH and other funding agencies since his fellowships. He has received numerous national and international awards. In 2009 U.S. News and World Report named him one of 14 ‘medical pioneers who are not holding back’. He has published over 400 scientific articles or book chapters, and has written or edited six books. Learn more.

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Corinde E. Wiers, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Perelman School of Medicine University of Pennsylvania. The Wiers Lab at Penn focuses on cognitive and neurobiological processes involved in alcohol use disorder (AUD) using PET and MRI neuroimaging. The Wiers Lab currently investigate the effects of metabolic ketosis on brain energetics and alcohol consumption in AUD (funded by an NIH K99/R00 Pathway to Independence and NARSAD Young investigator grant). Learn more. 

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Carolyn Black Becker, PhD, APBB is a Professor of Psychology at Trinity University and licensed clinical psychologist who specializes in the treatment of PTSD, OCD, anxiety disorders, and eating disorders. Dr. Becker completed her PhD at Rutgers University, her clinical internship at Brown University, and her postdoctoral fellowship at Dartmouth Medical School. She is board certified in behavioral and cognitive therapy, and specializes in the compassionate and individualized application of evidence-based interventions. Dr. Becker co-authored Exposure for Eating Disorders published by Oxford University Press and Cognitive Behavior Therapy for PTSD: A Case Formulation Approachby Guilford Press. She is a fellow of the Academy for Eating Disorders, the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, and the Association for Psychological Science; she is also a past residential fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. Dr. Becker is a past president of both the Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology and the Academy for Eating Disorders. She has received numerous awards including the Lori Irving Award for Excellence in Eating Disorders Prevention and Awareness granted by the National Eating Disorders Association and the Academy for Eating Disorders Research-Practice Partnership Award. Learn more. 

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Roger D. Weiss, MD 
Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Chief of the Division of Alcohol, Drugs, and Addiction at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts

Dr. Weiss’ career has focused on treatment and clinical research with substance-dependent patients. He has received numerous NIH grants, including for developing integrated group therapy, an evidence-based treatment for co-occurring bipolar and substance use disorders, and leading a multi-site treatment study of prescription opioid dependence. He has authored over 300 publications, including several books, and was vice chair of the American Psychiatric Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines for Patients with Substance Use Disorders.
Dr. Weiss was named a member of honor by the Spanish Society for Dual Disorders in 2011, and has received numerous other awards, including the H. David Archibald Award for Outstanding Research and/or Practice in the Addictions from The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto (2007), the Jack H. Mendelson Research Award from McLean Hospital (2012), and the Dan Anderson Research Award from the Hazelden Foundation (2012). Learn more. 

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Jennifer Freeman, PhD is the Director of the Pediatric Anxiety Research Center (PARC) at Bradley Hospital. Dr. Freeman is also Professor (Research) of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Associate Director of the Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Program in the Clinical Psychology Training Program at Brown Medical School, and Associate Director of Research at Bradley Hospital. Learn more. 

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Andrew Furman, MD 
Professor and Eminent Physician and Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs at the Emory University School of Medicine

Dr. Furman received his Bachelor of Arts from Williams College, majoring in Religion and the History of Ideas, and his Doctor of Medicine from the Emory University School of Medicine. He did his internship in internal medicine at the University of Washington and his psychiatric residency at Emory, culminating in a chief residency at the Grady Health System. Dr. Furman is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, as well as a small group advisor in the Emory School of Medicine. He teaches extensively in the School of Medicine- both medical students and psychiatric residents, as well as in the Leadership Development Program of the Goizueta Business School of Emory University and in the Emory University Psychoanalytic Institute. Additionally, he is an affiliated faculty member of the Department of Comparative Literature in Emory College and the Psychoanalytic Studies Program of the Laney Graduate School of Emory University. Scholarly interests include the use of the humanities in medical and health education, the development of the medical professional, and psychotherapy and psychoanalytic pedagogy. Learn more. 

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