Harvard Medical Psychiatry: Comprehensive Update 2023

Overview

Harvard Medical Psychiatry: Comprehensive Update 2023 is an on-demand digital course originally delivered live over four days, now available with lifetime access. This comprehensive update covers critical topics in medical psychiatry with multidisciplinary insights relevant to clinical practice in psychiatry and related medical specialties.

On-demand psychiatry education — accessible anytime, anywhere.

Agenda

This course provides a detailed four-day agenda featuring expert-led sessions on a range of clinical topics in medical psychiatry. All session times correspond to Eastern Time.

• Breakfast & Registration
• Welcome & Introductory Remarks — Adrienne Taylor, MD; Sejal Shah, MD
• Psychiatric Consultation in the Medical/Surgical Setting: The Art of the Consult — David Gitlin, MD
• Applying Psychosocial Formulation and Intervention in Complex Clinical Settings — Michelle Jacobo, PhD
• Difficult Capacity Assessments: Ethical and Legal Considerations — Jhilam Biswas, MD
• Panel Discussion – Q&A
• Management of Agitation in the Medical Setting — Naomi Schmelzer, MD
• Psychiatric Emergencies: Catatonia, NMS, Serotonin Syndrome — Nathan Praschan, MD, MPH
• Acute Psychiatric Management and ED Boarding — Sejal Shah, MD
• Suicide Risk Assessment — Adrienne Taylor, MD
• Management of Behavioral Outbursts in Developmentally Delayed Children, Adolescents and Young Adults in the Hospital Setting — Chase Samsel, MD
• Closing Remarks — Adrienne Taylor, MD; Sejal Shah, MD
• Cardiac Psychiatry — Margo Funk, MD, MA
• QTc Prolongation: Risk Stratification and Mitigation for Challenging Clinical Cases — Margo Funk, MD, MA
• Critical Care Psychiatry — Jordan Rosen, MD
• Delirium: Pathophysiology, Prevention and Treatment — Jordan Rosen, MD
• Medically Unstable Eating Disorder — Sydney Hartman-Munick, MD
• Pharmacological Considerations in Pregnancy — Polina Teslyar, MD
• Management of Substance Use Disorders in Pregnancy — Leena Mittal, MD
• PMDD/Menopause — Margo Nathan, MD
• Comprehensive Evaluation and Assessment of Transplant — Fremonta Meyer, MD
• Care of Complicated Burn and Trauma Patient — Adrienne Taylor, MD
• Trauma-Informed Care in the Hospital Setting — Nomi Levy-Carrick, MD, MPhil
• Interface of Pain and Addiction in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry — Claire Twark, MD
• Management of Substance Use Disorders in the Medical Setting — Joji Suzuki, MD
• Counseling around the Use of Medical Cannabis — Roxy Sholevar, MD
• Psycho-Oncology Primer — William Pirl, MD, MPH
• Management at the End of Life — Zachary Sager, MD
• Psychological Health for Hematologic Malignancies — Hermioni Amonoo, MD, MPP
• Neurocognitive Effects from Chemotherapy — Damien Miran, MD
• Addressing Religion and Spirituality in the Oncology Patient — John Peteet, MD
• Management of Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Psychiatric Comorbidities — Ashwini Nadkarni, MD
• Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders: A Medical Psychiatry Focus — Catherine Gonzalez, MD
• Inflammation, Autoimmune Disorders and Psychiatric Illness — Rishab Gupta, MD
• HIV Psychiatry Update — John Grimaldi, MD
• Functional Neurocircuitry and Neuroanatomy of Psychiatric Symptoms — David Silbersweig, MD
• Neurocognitive Impairment and Dementia: Clinical Principles and Bedside Assessment — Scott McGinnis, MD
• Epilepsy and Stroke — Daniel Weisholtz, MD
• Movement Disorders and Multiple Sclerosis — Stanley Lyndon, MD
• Functional Neurologic and Somatoform Disorders: Assessment and Management — Gaston Baslet, MD
• The Future of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry – Closing Remarks — Adrienne Taylor, MD; Sejal Shah, MD

Speakers

This course features a faculty of experienced medical psychiatrists and clinicians providing expertise across subspecialties relevant to medical psychiatry, consultation-liaison psychiatry, oncology, gastroenterology, and general psychiatry.

• Adrienne Taylor, MD
• Sejal Shah, MD
• David Gitlin, MD
• Michelle Jacobo, PhD
• Jhilam Biswas, MD
• Naomi Schmelzer, MD
• Nathan Praschan, MD, MPH
• Chase Samsel, MD
• Margo Funk, MD, MA
• Jordan Rosen, MD
• Sydney Hartman-Munick, MD
• Polina Teslyar, MD
• Leena Mittal, MD
• Margo Nathan, MD
• Fremonta Meyer, MD
• Nomi Levy-Carrick, MD, MPhil
• Claire Twark, MD
• Joji Suzuki, MD
• Roxy Sholevar, MD
• William Pirl, MD, MPH
• Zachary Sager, MD
• Hermioni Amonoo, MD, MPP
• Damien Miran, MD
• John Peteet, MD
• Ashwini Nadkarni, MD
• Catherine Gonzalez, MD
• Rishab Gupta, MD
• John Grimaldi, MD
• David Silbersweig, MD
• Scott McGinnis, MD
• Daniel Weisholtz, MD
• Stanley Lyndon, MD
• Gaston Baslet, MD

Target Audience

This course is designed for psychiatrists, consultation-liaison psychiatrists, psychiatric trainees, psychiatric nurse practitioners, and other healthcare professionals involved in the psychiatric care of medically complex patients. It is also relevant for clinicians in oncology, gastroenterology, and related disciplines seeking to enhance their understanding of psychiatric comorbidities and management.

Why This Topic Matters

Harvard Medical Psychiatry: Comprehensive Update 2023 addresses the evolving challenges in medical psychiatry by integrating psychiatric assessment and management with complex medical conditions. This update is essential for clinicians aiming to strengthen their expertise in consultation-liaison psychiatry and related interdisciplinary care.

MedHub Central offers this course to enhance clinical knowledge and reinforce psychiatric practice, supporting healthcare professionals in delivering informed, evidence-based care within diverse medical settings.