UCSF faculty, trainees, and fellows to take part in the 2025 APA Annual Meeting

This year's American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting will be held in Los Angeles.

The 177th Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) will be held Saturday, May 17–Wednesday, May 21, 2025, at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Numerous current and former UCSF Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences faculty members and trainees will be in attendance, including the following current UCSF faculty and trainees scheduled to contribute at one or more sessions:

Saturday, May 17

• Chase Anderson, MD, MS (presenter) – Physicians With Lived Experience: The Ripple Effect of Sharing Their Stories (3:45–5:15 p.m., Room 410)
• Aparna Atluru, MD (presenter) – Caring for the Next Generation of College Students: How and at What Cost? (3:45–5:15 p.m., Room 404A)
• Charles Bay, MD (presenter) – Breaking the Frame: Changing the Tide of Black Male Representation in Film (1:30–3:00 p.m.., Room 408B)
• Robin Cooper, MD (presenter) – Understanding and Addressing the Mental Health Impact of Wildfires and Other Natural Disasters (3:45–5:15 p.m., Room 408A)
• Lucy Ogbu-Nwobodo, MD, MS, MAS (chair); Kyle Jamison, MD (presenter); Gregory Jarasitis, MOT, OTR/L (presenter); Mindy Oppenheim, MEd (presenter); Andrew Sudler, MD, MPH (presenter) – Fostering Recovery Through Supported Employment: A Pathway to Mental Well-Being (1:30–3:00 p.m.., Petree Hall C)
• Sudha Prathikanti, MD (presenter) – Moving Towards Mental Health: Therapeutic Yoga as a Lifestyle Psychiatry Intervention (8:00–9:30 a.m., Room 408B)
• Andy Tompkins, MD, MHS (presenter) – APA Initiatives in Structural Racism Accountability: Update on the Impacts on M/Ur Communities (1:30–3:00 p.m., Room 505)
• Phillip Yang, MD, MA (chair); Hohui Eileen Wang, MD (presenter) – Beyond Generalizations: Tailoring Mental Health Approaches for Diverse Asian American Subgroups (1:30–3:00 p.m.., Room 512)
  
   

Sunday, May 18

• Richard Bermudes, MD (presenter) – Clinical Applications for Psychiatric Practice: Ketamine and TMS (8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m., Room 152)
• Renee Binder, MD (presenter) – Level Up Your Psychiatry Career: Why Fellowship Might Be the Smartest Move (10:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m., Room 407)
• Robin Cooper, MD (presenter) – From Nature to Nurture: How Greenspace Shapes Our Views on Climate Change and Lifestyle (8:00–9:30 a.m., Room 406A)
• Robin Cooper, MD (presenter) – How to Become a Climate Informed Psychiatrist: Resident Fellow Medical Student Track Panel (3:45–5:15 p.m., Room 402A)
• Mark Luskus, MD, MA (presenter) – AI Beware: Unpacking the Risks and Harms of Artificial Intelligence (10:00–10:30 a.m., Mental Health Innovation Zone Stage)
• Christina Mangurian, MD, MAS (presenter) – Subspecialty Training: Public Psychiatry, Behavioral Neurology & Neuropsychiatry, Reproductive Mental Health, Interventional Psychiatry (1:30–3:00 p.m., Room 402B)
• James Reich, MD, MPH (presenter) – Mastering Forensic Issues Encountered by the General Psychiatrist (8:00–9:30 a.m., Room 511ABC)
• Ilse Wiechers, MD, MPP, MHS (presenter) – Benzodiazapines and Other Sedative-Hypnotics Help or Harm: A Panel Discussion (8:00–9:30 a.m., Petree Hall D)
   

Monday, May 19

• Ololade Adebiyi, MD (poster presenter); John Chamberlain, MD (poster presenter); D. Nyasha Chagwedera, MD, PhD (poster presenter); Tammy Duong, MD (poster presenter); Shavalee Rios-Savanapridi (poster presenter) – Increasing Cardiometabolic Health Awareness in the Outpatient Psychiatric Setting – a Quality Improvement Project (8:00–9:30 a.m., Post Session 8)
• Robin Cooper, MD (presenter) – Polycrisis of Mental Health and Wellbeing (8:00–9:30 a.m., Room 309)
• Anne Glowinski, MD, MPE (poster presenter); Andrew Halls, MD (poster presenter); Kaitlin Hanss, MD, MPH (presenter); Andrew Krystal, MD, MS (poster presenter); Karthik Sarma, MD, PhD (poster presenter) – The Robo-Doctor Is Always in: Assessing and Comparing the Psychiatric Diagnostic Capabilities of Chatgpt and Other Large Language Models (1:30–3:00 p.m., Poster Session 9)
• Mardi Horowitz, MD (presenter) – Healing Relationships: Enhancing Patient Outcomes and Physician Satisfaction by Addressing Everyday Ruptures in the Therapeutic Alliance (3:45–5:15 p.m., Room 503)
• Christina Mangurian, MD, MAS (presenter) – Strengthening the Pipeline: Supporting Women Psychiatrists Through Their Careers at the Association of Women Psychiatrists (AWP) (3:45–5:15 p.m., Room 406B)
• Adnan Syed, MD, MSc (chair) – Healing or Harm: Re-Examining the Neuropsychiatric Effects of Cannabis With a Positive Lifestyle Approach (3:45–5:15 p.m., Room 502B)
   

Tuesday, May 20

• Jeffrey DeVido, MD (presenter) – Good Psychiatric Management of Borderline Personality Disorder and Alcohol Use Disorder (8:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m., Room 150C)
• Harris Eyre, PhD (presenter) – Innovations in Global Brain Health (1:30–3:00 p.m., Room 405)
• Harminder Gill, MD (presenter) – Street Psychiatry: On-the-Ground Experiences and Model Comparisons to Support People Experiencing Unsheltered Homelessness (3:45–5:15 p.m., Petree Hall C)
• Karthik Sarma, MD, PhD (presenter); Kaitlin Hanss, MD, MPH (presenter); Marina Tolou-Shams, PhD (presenter) – Dr. AI Will See You Now: The Opportunities Challenges and Risks of ChatGPT, Gemini, and Other Large Language Models in Psychiatry (3:45–5:15 p.m., Room 501ABC)
   

Wednesday, May 21

• Robin Cooper, MD (presenter) – Weathering the Climate Crisis Together: Group Interventions for Climate Distress (1:30–3:00 p.m., Room 518)
• Anna Glezer, MD (chair) – Lifestyle Interventions in Reproductive Mental Health (8:00–9:30 a.m., Room 407)
• Tauheed Zaman, MD (presenter) – Cannabis Use: Conversations With Patients (10:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m., Petree Hall D)
   

Schedule information provided by the American Psychiatric Association. Events are listed using Pacific Daylight Time (EDT). Presenters and presentations are subject to change without prior notice.
 

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