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Where We've Been This Month: International Conferences
Wednesday, October 14, 2026
Our Psychiatry faculty and staff attended and presented at international conferences this month!
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Several members of our department, including Hochang Lee, MD, and Marsha Wittink, MD, MBE, recently visited Chungang University Hospital in Seoul for the Chung-Ang - URMC Joint Symposium in Commemoration of the Memorandum of Understanding. At the symposium, Dr. Wittink presented “Integrating Medical and Psychiatric Care Across the Continuum: The Rochester Model," a discussion on our Medicine in Psychiatry Services (MIPS) model across inpatient and outpatient settings, as well as how MIPS is improving patient-centered care transitions.
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Drs. Lee and Wittink also toured Chung-Ang University's new Medicine in Psychiatry Unit, established after Dr. Sun Mi Kim visited our department in 2023!
- MIPS faculty recently met up with colleagues doing similar work on Medpsych units in hospitals and primary care practices from around the nation at the Association of Medicine and Psychiatry (AMP) meeting in Newport Beach. Shifra Mincer, MD presented a poster on a new women's health clinic at the MIPS-Primary Care program. Marsha Wittink, MD, MBE attended the council meetings and led a new committee to share curriculum and policies across Medpsych units through the AMP.
- Mark Oldham, MD was recently a keynote speaker at the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatry's Faculty of Psychiatry 2026 Conference. Dr. Oldham gave three presentations: "Delirium, encephalopathy, and catatonia: From theory to practice," "Values in action: Old age psychiatrists in C-L psychiatry," and "State of the art in delirium care."
- A number of Psychiatry members also recently attended the International Congress of Psychosomatic Medicine (ICPM) in Fukuoka, Japan. Speakers at the conference included Hochang Ben Lee, MD, Marsha Wittink, MD, MBE, and George Nasra, MD, MBA.
- Dr. Sun Mi Kim, a recent visiting scholar in our Department of Psychiatry, received a Top Poster Award for our work showing how our integrated inpatient and outpatient services improve diabetes outcomes for patients with serious mental illness. Marsha Wittink, MD, MBE also co-chaired an ICPM symposium with Dr. Susan Padrino of the University of Chicago, titled "The CIMO Framework for Medical-Psychiatry Units: Insights from Three Countries and Applications to Emerging Global Models."
Shareta Parker, FPA-P, Jerard Johnson, CCM, Tyisha Phillips-Lewin, MS, MHC, NCC, and Chassity Phelps, FPA-P of our Pediatric Behavioral Health & Wellness team led an interactive session at the University of Rochester's Boundless Together conference on how Support Services can facilitate shared understanding between families and providers.