By Viktoriya Kozlova, DO
PGY-3 Resident
Department of Psychiatry
Eastern Virginia Medical School
Our residents continue to be involved in community outreach and support including staffing the Health Outreach Partnership of EVMS Students (HOPES) free mental health clinic. Established by medical students at EVMS in 2011, HOPES clinic supports the underserved Hampton Road community by providing primary and specialty medical care. Additionally, the residents and medical students are collecting donations of clothing and toiletries through December to prepare backpacks to be given to our patients most in need at discharge from inpatient treatment.
VHS-EVMS at ODU and The Virginia Psychoanalytic Society had the pleasure of hosting Joseph Fernando, MD for his lecture on “Psychoanalytic View of Trauma” as part of the 7th Annual Jerome S Blackman MD Lectureship in Psychoanalysis.
We were also excited to hear that the Virginian-Pilot also highlighted the ECT services offered by our faculty through SNGH with their article titled: “With a 3-month waitlist in Norfolk, electroconvulsive therapy is overcoming its reputation”. Articles like this will help to destigmatize ECT which continues to help our community.
Additionally, our residents and faculty have been involved in several academic endeavors in the past several months.
- At the Association for Academic Psychiatry Annual Meeting, Our Program Director, Dr. Shriti Patel facilitated a workshop titled “Ageist Microaggressions: Tools to Identify and Address Ageist Thoughts, Feelings and Behaviors in Training and Supervision.”
- At the Fall Psychiatric Society of Virginia Meeting, Dr. Shriti Patel presented a talk titled “Understanding the use of Electroconvulsive Therapy in Treatment Refractory Depression” and participated in the panel for: “Panel Discussion: Interventional Care: Innovative Methods for Improving Mental Health Care”.
- Faculty attending Dr. David Spiegel, residents Dr. Taylor Wallace, Dr. Viktoriya Kozlova and medical students Melissa Hoff and Jubilee Benedict had their manuscript titled “Betamethasone-Associated Psychosis in a Pregnant Woman Diagnosed with Schizophrenia” accepted to the Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology.
- Faculty attending Dr. David Spiegel, resident Dr. Drew Grehan and medical student Zach Goodrich submitted a preliminary manuscript titled “Delayed Onset Cariprazine-Induced Akathisia” to Clinical Neuropharmacology.
- At the Fall Psychiatric Society of Virginia Meeting, Faculty attending Dr. Jessica Mees-Campbell, resident Dr. Kelly Huynh and medical students Janvi Agrawal, Bhavana Madhu, and Miles DeLay presented a poster titled “False Positives, Real Consequences: Psychiatric Destabilization After HIV Misdiagnosis” – which won first place for medical student poster! Dr. Mees Campbell, Dr. Huynh and medical student Janvi Agrawal presented a poster titled “Collateral or Catalyst? The Dual Roles of ChatGPT in a Case of Bipolar I Disorder” as well.
