Harvard Medical Psychiatry: Comprehensive Update 2024

Overview

Harvard Medical Psychiatry: Comprehensive Update 2024 is a detailed educational program focused on the intersection of medical and psychiatric practice. This course covers a broad spectrum of topics including delirium, catatonia, neurocognitive disorders, and complications arising from psychiatric illness or its treatment in various medical settings. Designed to deepen participants’ expertise in diagnostic work-up and treatment, the program emphasizes psychopharmacologic and psychological therapies alongside evidence-based clinical research and practical guidelines.

On-demand psychiatry education — accessible anytime, anywhere.

Agenda

This comprehensive agenda provides a structured overview of the course sessions, delivered across four days in Eastern Time. Sessions include lectures, panel discussions, and case studies to support thorough knowledge development in medical psychiatry.

• Breakfast & Registration — Various Speakers
• Welcome & Introductory Remarks — Various Speakers
• Chairman Emeritus Welcome: Consultation Liaison Psychiatry and Its Value — David Silbersweig, 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 — Various Speakers
• Management of Agitation in the Medical Setting — Naomi Schmelzer, MD
• Psychiatric Emergencies: Catatonia, NMS, Serotonin Syndrome — Nathan Praschan, MD, MPH
• Suicide Risk Assessment — Heidi Holiver, NP
• Acute Psychiatric Management and ED Boarding — Sejal Shah, MD
• Management of Behavioral Outbursts in Developmentally Delayed Children, Adolescents and Young Adults in the Hospital Setting — Chase Samsel, MD
• ECG Interpretation for the CL Psychiatrist — Christopher Celano, MD
• QTc Prolongation: Overview of Medications — Scott Beach, MD
• QTc Prolongation: Risk Stratification and Mitigation for Challenging Clinical Cases — Margo Funk, MD, MA
• Critical Care Psychiatry — Maureen Cassady, MD
• Delirium: Pathophysiology, Prevention and Treatment — Maureen Cassady, MD
• Eating Disorders: Medical & Psychiatric Care and Complications — Jennifer Goetz, MD
• Pharmacological Considerations in Pregnancy — Polina Teslyar, MD
• Management of Substance Use Disorders in Pregnancy — Leena Mittal, MD
• PMDD/Menopause — Hadine Joffe, MD, MSc
• 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, DPhil
• Interface of Pain and Addiction in CL — Claire Twark, MD
• Management of Substance Use Disorders in the Medical Setting — Joji Suzuki, MD
• Counseling around the Use of Medical Cannabis — Roxanne Sholevar, MD
• Psycho-Oncology Primer — Carlos Fernandez-Robles, MD, MBA
• Psychological Health for Hematologic Malignancies — Hermioni Amonoo, MD, MPP
• Management at the End of Life — Zachary Sager, MD
• Neurocognitive Effects from Chemotherapy — Damien Miran, MD
• Addressing Religion and Spirituality in the Oncology Patient — John Peteet, MD
• Psychiatric Disorders in Gastrointestinal Diseases — Ashwini Nadkarni, MD
• Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders: A Medical Psychiatry Focus — Catherine Gonzalez, MD
• Inflammation, Autoimmune Disorders and Psychiatric Illness — Rishab Gupta, MD
• Neuropsychiatric Manifestations and Pharmacologic Considerations in HIV and other Infectious Disorders — 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
• Neuropsychiatry of Movement Disorders — Stanley Lyndon, MD
• Functional Neurologic and Somatoform Disorders: Assessment and Management — Gaston Baslet, MD
• Panel Discussions, Breaks, Lunches, and Closing Remarks — Various Speakers

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:

• Evaluate relationships between medical and psychiatric subspecialties as they pertain to psychiatric manifestations in the medical setting.
• Generate clinically meaningful differential diagnoses when presented with neuropsychiatric symptoms in the medical setting.
• Provide an inter-professional team-based approach to the assessment and treatment of psychiatric symptoms in the medically ill.
• Utilize up-to-date diagnostic criteria and assessment methods to evaluate and monitor patients with psychiatric symptoms.
• Implement evidence-based treatment recommendations and monitor patient response.

Speakers

This program features expert faculty from a range of specialties relevant to medical psychiatry. Speakers include physicians, psychologists, and nurse practitioners who bring clinical expertise and research insights into integrated psychiatric and medical care. The faculty covers topics in consultation-liaison psychiatry, neuropsychiatry, addiction, women’s mental health, oncology psychiatry, and other subspecialties.

Target Audience

• Specialty Physicians
• Physician Assistants
• Nurse Practitioners
• Psychologists
• Primary Care Physicians

Why This Topic Matters

Harvard Medical Psychiatry: Comprehensive Update 2024 addresses the critical interface between psychiatric and medical conditions, reflecting an essential area of psychiatry that supports effective clinical decision-making in complex cases. The course content aligns with specialty knowledge requirements in medical psychiatry and consultation-liaison psychiatry.

By providing thorough clinical updates, evidence-based interventions, and multidisciplinary perspectives, this course supports learners in strengthening their expertise within the field. MedHub Central offers this outstanding educational resource to advance professional competence in integrated care settings.