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Faculty News: Representing URMC Psychiatry Nationally and Internationally
Thursday, April 3, 2025
Several of the Psychiatry staff and faculty members recently presented at national and international conferences.
Our Psychiatry team recently stopped by the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry's (AAGP) 2025 Annual Meeting in Phoenix, Arizona.
Presenters included the following:
- Yeates Conwell, MD, Kim van Orden, PhD, Grace Ro, MD, EJ Santos, MD- "Suicide Risk Assessment for Geriatric Mental Health: Protocol Design and Implementation"
- Sungsu Lee, MD, PhD- "Medical Emergencies in Inpatient Psychiatry: Prevalence of Medical Transfers from Inpatient Psychiatric Units at an Academic Medical Center" Poster Session
- Grace Ro, MD- "Group-Based Music Interventions for Older Adults with Dementia: A Review"
- Kim Van Orden, PhD- "Mental Health Concerns of the Unpaid and Paid Dementia Caregiver Workforce," "Article Highlights from the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry"
EJ Santos, MD presented the AAGP's Annual Meeting welcoming reception as the AAGP Acting President.
J. Steven Lamberti, MD, presented two talks at the Academic Consortium on Criminal Justice Health (ACCJH) meeting in Austin, Texas, on March 17th- "Forensic Assertive Community Treatment(FACT): An Emerging Best Practice" and "A Randomized Controlled Trial of the Rochester Forensic Assertive Community Treatment (FACT) Model."
On March 21st, Brian Keane, PhD presented at Princeton University Thalamus Conte Center's Scientific Meeting. His talk discussed thalamic and cortical sensory dysconnectivity as a biomarker for psychosis.
Last but not least, William Watson, PhD gave a two-hour virtual presentation to residents at the Stony Brook Medicine Department of Neurology, discussing Psychogenic Non-Epileptic Attacks.
Elizabeth J. Santos, MD delivered president speech at Annual AAGP Meeting
Thursday, April 3, 2025
Dr. Santos is the new President of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry (AAGP) and a leader in the field of Geriatric Psychiatry. She delivered the president's speech at the annual AAGP meeting in March 2025.