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Michelle Russo Joins Psychiatry Education Team
Wednesday, June 5, 2024
We are absolutely thrilled to welcome Michelle Russo to Psychiatry and our Education team as our new Administrator for Graduate Medical Education (GME) and Undergraduate Medical Education. In this role, she will support and oversee the coordinators of our GME/LCME programs, interfacing with and supporting our training directors from a regulatory and reporting perspective, liaising with our GME office, our Department administration, the Associate Chair for Education, as well as ensuring the health, vitality, and growth of our GME team.
Michelle joins us after developing her skills in several GME programs, most recently the Cardiothoracic Surgery program here at URMC, as well as Pediatrics. She also comes with program management experience, a deep desire to learn and contribute to our Departmental learning environment, and a highly effective interpersonal and relational leadership style.
URMC Psychiatry Research Highlighted in Conferences
Wednesday, June 5, 2024
- A December 2023 publication, "Heterogeneity of Response to Methylphenidate in Apathetic Patients in the ADMET 2 Trial," coauthored by Anton Pjetur Porsteinsson, MD was recently awarded the 2024 Publication of the Year Award by the International Society to Advance Alzheimer’s Research and Neuropsychiatric Syndromes PIA. The team is invited to present their work is invited during the in-person PIA Day in Philadelphia in July.
- Tyler Fleming, DO, MPH presented at the American Academy of Psychodynamic Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis a roundtable entitled 'The use of the novel and musical in psychodynamic formulation in graduate medical education'.
- Arielle Sheftall, PhD's presentation on discrepancies in reporting between parents and youth on suicidal behavior was recently accepted for the biennial European Symposium on Suicide and Suicidal Behavior. She will be presenting at the conference in Rome in August.
- Jennifer West, PhD presented at the annual American Cleft Palate Craniofacial Association meeting in Denver on Project RISE: Reduction in secondhand smoke exposure for patients with craniofacial differences. (first author Colette Stenz, PsyD).
- Jennifer West, PhD, Kristin Holderle, PhD, and Wendi Cross, PhD recently presented at the Association of Psychology Postdoctoral and Internship Centers in Albuquerque "From crisis to community commitment: A three-part social justice initiative."
- Jennifer West, PhD and Micheal Scharf, MD also were co-authors on a poster presented at the annual meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies in Toronto in May: Addressing social determinants of health in youth and young adult victims of firearm violence. (first author Crystal Craig)
- Jennifer West, PhD and Kristin Holderle, PhD presented at the biennial conference of the Association of Psychology Postdoctoral and Internship Centers in Albuquerque a poster, "From crisis to community commitment: A three-part social justice initiative"
- Myra Mathis, MD co-presented two sessions at the American Psychiatric Association's Annual Meeting: "Telemedicine and Addiction Treatment: The potential implications for marginalized populations (In Relation to the Ryan Haight Act)" and "Pregnancy & Buprenorphine: To offer or not offer, that is the question"
- Ellen-ge Denton, PsyD, MS will be chairing the upcoming Youth Suicide Research Consortium Fifth Annual Conference. This year's theme is Youth Suicide Research Among Understudied Groups Around the Globe: Insights, Directions and Opportunities. Click here to register for this free event!
In addition to these faculty achievements, Sungsu Lee, MD, PhD, Grace Ro, MD, and Jaewon Lee, MD, MPH, residents in our Psychiatry Residency Program, presented at the American Psychiatric Association's Annual Meeting in May.
Last but not least, Dakota Daniels and Allan Sikh, Human Subjects Research Coordinators at the Sheftall Lab, presented at the Suicide Research Symposium in late April, the ABCT student conference, and the Youth Suicide Research Consortium Conference.