April 3rd Schedule

46th ANNUAL MEETING

Bridging Cultures in Mental Health: Local Insights, Global Implications

7:30am - 6:00pm

Registration (Foyer)

8:30 - 9:00am

Opening Remarks (Regal/Wurlitzer)

Alan Teo, MD, MS, President, SSPC
** Land Acknowledgement: Noheya Begay (they/them)

7:30 - 10:30am

Coffee & Tea Bar (Foyer)

9:00 - 10:30am

Panel Discussion: Access to Care (Regal/Wurlitzer)

Molly McClain, MD, MPH, University of New Mexico School of Medicine (she/her)
Olivia Shadid, MD, University of New Mexico School of Medicine (she/her)
Peter Holguin, MD, University of New Mexico School of Medicine (she/her)
Jodie Jepson, BA, State of the Heart Recovery New Mexico
Moderator: Alan Teo, MD, MS, President

10:30 - 10:45am

Break & Connecting

10:45am - 12:15pm Four Sessions

1. Symposium: Bridging Gaps in Assessing Psychological Distress: A Multilevel Approach to Addressing Structural Inequities (Regal/Wurlitzer)

Facilitator: Julia Hess, PhD, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM (she/her)

  • A Mixed-Methods Approach to Developing a Transdiagnostic Outcome Measure of Psychological Distress for Latinx and African Immigrants/Refugees in the Refugee and Immigrant Well-being Project (RIWP)

David Lardier, PhD, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM (he/him)
Jessica Goodkind, PhD, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM (she/her)

  • Innovative Qualitative Approaches to Understand Psychological Distress of Latinx and African Immigrants and Refugees to Inform Quantitative Measurement Development in the RIWP+ Study

Daisy Ramos, BA, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM (she/her)

  • Reliability and Validity of a Transdiagnostic Measure of Psychological Distress for Latinx and African Refugees/Immigrants: A Mixed-Methods Study in the Refugee and Immigrant Well-being Project (RIWP)

Megan Faulkner, MS, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM (she/her)

  • A Qualitative Exploration of Grief Among Latinx Immigrants: Insights into Distress and Protective Factors during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Sonia Ramirez, LMSW, BS, New Mexico Immigrant Law Center, Albuquerque, NM

2. Workshop: What Happened To You: Evaluating the Mental Health of Survivors of Torture (local) (Ivory)

  • Meghan Colpas, PsyD, University of New Mexico Hospital, Primary Care Behavioral Health, Albuquerque, NM (she/her)
  • Olivia Shadid, MD, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, NM (she/her)
  • Adam Penrose, MD, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, NM (he/him)
  • Jenifer Wolf-Williams, Ed.D, LPC-S, LPA, Humanitarian Outreach for Migrant Emotional Health (H.O.M.E.), United States-Mexico Border (she/her)

3. Workshop: Caring for Caregivers East and West: Canadian Korean Collaboration and Lessons Learned (Serenade)

  • Ji-Hye Kim, Master’s, Seoul Rehabilitation Hospital, Seoul, Korea (she/her)
  • Kenneth Fung, MD, FRCPC, MSc, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada (he/him)
  • So-Jung Lim, BA, Do-bong Gu Education Welfare Center, Do-bong Gu, Seoul, Korea (she/her)
  • Jee Sun Lee, Masters, Seoul Rehabilitation Hospital, Seoul, Korea (she/her)

4. Paper Session: Understanding pathways to care: Exploring cultural constructs in mental health care across diverse contexts (Sonata)

  • Social and Cultural Factors Contributing to Mental Health Treatment Hesitancy and Engagement Among Latines with Serious Mental Illness: A Content Analysis

Oscar F. Rojas Perez, PhD, Yale University (he/him/his)

  • Socio-economics, migration, and family dynamics: Experiences of Adolescents in Rural Mexico

Ana Chatham, PhD, Washington University in St. Louis (she/her)

  • Systematic review of loneliness and depression in the adult immigrant population within the United States

Nakaweesi Katongole, MS, MA, DMH, University of California San Diego La Jolla, CA (she/her)

12:15 - 1:30pm

Lunch (on your own)

1:30 - 3:00pm Four Sessions Including Hughes Award Recipient Talk

1. Work in Progress: Psychiatry Training: Approaches, Gaps, and Future Directions for Culturally-Centered Care (Serenade)

  • Applying Anthropology in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry to Prevent Violence

Puneet Sahota, MD, PhD, Cooper University Health Care, Camden, NJ (she/her)

  • Assessing Psychiatrists' Approaches to Non-US Born Patients' Mental Health: Contextualizing Trauma and Resource Utilization

Richard Zhang, MD, MA, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT (he/him)
Michael Boring, MD, Psychiatrist Resident, Gateway CSB

  • Exploring Training Gaps in Immigrant Mental Health: Perspectives from a Sample of US Psychiatry Trainees

Talitha West, MD, JD, Hackensack Meridian Ocean University Medical Center, Brick, NJ
Richard Zhang, MD, Yale Child Study Center, New Haven, CT
Poojajeet Khaira, MD, MetroHealth, Cleveland, OH

2. Hughes Award Recipient Talk - Feasibility and applicability of implementing the Framework for Comprehensive Understanding of Structural Stigma in Mental Healthcare Systems (FOCUS-MHS): A case example of Nepal (Regal/Wurlitzer)

  • Dristy Gurung, M.Sc., Co-Investigator and Project Manager, NIH-Funded R01 Grant Reducing Stigma among Healthcare Providers to Improve Mental Health Services; Country Lead, International Study of Discrimination And Stigma Outcomes, Transcultural Psychosocial Organization (TPO) Nepal

3. Paper Session: Innovations and challenges in addressing mental health needs for immigrant and refugee communities (Sonata)

  • Celebratory Theater for Addressing the Mental Health Needs of Immigrants and Refugees

Cathy Costigan, PhD, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada (she/her)
Jie Li, MSc, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada (she/her)

  • Cognitive Processing Therapy for PTSD in Refugee Populations: A Review of the Current Evidence Base

Phoebe Lewis, MS, Antioch University New England, Keene, NH (she/her)

  • Bridging Cultural Understanding for Treatment of Displaced Artsakh Armenians (local)

Marietta Kaloyan, BS, Touro University Nevada College of Osteopathic Medicine, Henderson, NV (she/her)
Sofiya Ghazaryan, BS, University of California Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, CA (she/her)
Gregory Nikogosyan, DO, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, NM (he/him)

4. Workshop: Culturally and Trauma-Informed Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (Ivory)

  • Cecilia De Vargas, MD, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso, El Paso, TX (she/her)
  • Eden Hernandez Robles, PhD, MSW, Our Lady of The Lake University, San Antonio, Texas (she/her)
  • Fernando Doval Perez, DO, MS, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso, El Paso, TX (she/her)

3:00 - 3:15pm

Break

3:15 - 4:45pm Five Sessions

1. Workshop: In Search of Peace Through Cultural Psychiatry and Global Mental Health (Serenade)

  • Kenneth Fung, MD, MSc, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada (he/him)
  • Steven Moffic, MD, Private Pro Bono Community Psychiatrist, Milwaukee, WI (he/him)
  • Yukie Kurumiya, PhD, BCBA-D, IBA, The Chicago School, Chicago, IL (she/her)

2. Workshop: Walking Two Worlds: Integrating Cultural Practices in Addressing the Latinx Ethnoindigenous Idiom of ‘Susto’ (local) (Regal/Wurlitzer)

  • Thomas A. Chavez, PhD, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Division of Community Behavioral Health, Albuquerque, NM (he/him)
  • Antonia Montoya, LCSW, Sendero Wellness, Albuquerque, NM

3. Paper Session: Cultural Influences on Mental Health Interventions: Cultural adaptations to mental health interventions and support systems (Ebony)

  • Astronaut Households: The Lived Experiences of Pseudo-Single Chinese Immigrant Mothers with Pregnancy, Sitting the Month, and Childcare in Canada From a Cultural Perspective

Yinan Yu, MSc, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec (she)

  • Cultural Considerations for Immigrant Bangladeshi Perinatal Mental Health: A Case Series

Mohana Biswas, BA, MD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY (she/her)
Shimrani Banik, BS, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY (she/her)

4. Paper Session: Cultural-Relevant Professional Practice: Reflexivity and professional development in practice (Ivory)

  • Cultural Self-Awareness Among Doctoral Students in Clinical Psychology in Quebec: Current Situation and Perspectives

Nolwenn Gonzalez, BA, MSc, PhD student

  • “Political Not PC Cultural Psychiatry”: Can Cultural Psychiatrists Do What Politicians Can Not?

Lama Muhammad, MD Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, CA (she/her)

5. Workshop: Openness to Belonging Through the Mindful Viewing of Film: Transforming Intolerance and Loneliness as a Way of Resilient Well-being (Sonata)

  • Francis Lu, MD, UC Davis, Sacramento, CA (he/him)
  • James Griffith, MD, George Washington University, District of Columbia (he/him)

4:45 - 5:00pm

Break

5:00 - 6:00pm

Mentorship & Networking Roundtables (Regal/Wurlitzer)

1.	Career Mentorship in Cultural Psychiatry - James Griffith, MD, Francis Lu, MD, James Boehnlein, MD  
2.	Global Mental Health - Brandon Kohrt, MD, PhD, Ruta Rangel, Dristy Gurung
3.	Research and Publishing - Alan Teo, MD, MS, Jessica Goodkind, PhD
4.	Training/Education - Kenneth Fung, MD, MSc

5:45 - 6:45pm

Welcome Remarks (Baldwin)

Light appetizers and beverages will be provided.
Remarks: Dr. Gwen Mitchell

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