APA 2023 Annual Meeting: UVA Resident Recap

By Ihuoma Njoku, MD 
PGY-4
UVA Health System
Charlottesville, VA

Greetings from San Francisco!

This year’s APA Annual Meeting was another success for the UVA Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences. Our residents were encouraged to attend the meeting to maintain a finger on the pulse of current updates and future directions in psychiatry. It was also great to see so many faculty and alumni engaging in inter-institutional presentations in their areas of expertise. Below is a list of sessions given by current UVA faculty and former residents and fellows. 

UVA Psychiatry Faculty Oral Sessions

Nassima Ait-Daoud, MD

• Closing the Treatment Gap: How Can Psychiatry Help?

Mary Lynn Dell, MD, D. Min 

• Charting Future Intersectionalities: Mental Health, Spirituality, and Marginalized Children and Adolescents
• Enhancing Quality of Mental Health Care Through the Exploring and Addressing the Spiritual and Religious Dimension: Approaches Across the Lifespan
• Mental Health and Faith Community Partnerships 2023: Needed Now More Than Ever!

R. Lawrence Merkel, MD, PhD 

• The Cumulative Effect of Rural Residence, Mental Health Care Disparities and Communities of Color
• Multidisciplinary Partnering in an Effort to Address Mental Health and Substance Use Concerns in Central Appalachia

UVA Psychiatry Residency and Fellowship Alumni Oral Sessions

John Azer, MD  

• Psychodynamic Psychopharmacology: Enhancing Outcomes in Pharmacologic Treatment-Resistance with Practical Psychodynamics

Kathryn Baselice, MD 

• Too Much Is Never Enough: Compulsive Sexual Behavior in Psychiatric Practice

Scott Beach, MD 

• Catatonia: What Should Psychiatrists Know and Why?
• Education: An Essential Component of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry

Caridad Ponce Martinez, MD   

• Models of Care for Pregnant Individuals with Substance Use Disorders