Howard-Dartmouth Collaborative Summer School
June 20-24, 2011
"Promoting Recovery and Rehabilitation in Mental Health among African Americans"
8:30 AM to 4:00 PM
Washington, DC
Regular registration: $50.00
CEU registration: Additional $25 for the Summer School June 20-22, and additional $40 for the Luther Robinson Symposium June 23
CME registration: Additional $40
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Board Transition Dinner - June 13, 2011
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Call for Abstracts - AAPA
Abstracts that are presented at this year's AAAP Annual Meeting will be published in The American Journal on Addictions.
Meeting is in Scottsdale, Arizona from December 8-11, 2011. The submission deadline for paper, poster and workshop presentations has been extended to July 1, 2011.
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WPS Wellstone Award to Senator Conyers featured in Psychiatric News
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Colleagues,
Our District of Columbia Psychiatric Society, a Chapter of WPS, Celebrations & Holidays party was a smashing success last night, worthy of our Career, Leadership and Mentorship (CLM) project's 4th birthday !
 We were treated with superb presentations by Drs. Elspeth Ritchie , Chief Clinical Officer, DC DMH, (pictured right, speaking), and Yavar Moghimi, PGY 4, GWU (pictured below). Dr. Ritchie addressed PTSD, Violence & Suicide in the US Armed Forces while Dr. Moghimi screened his superb, brief film, "Released to Life" on young African-American men released from DC jail.
A robust dialogue followed with remarkably insightful participation by all and especially by our MITs & ECPs present and very well represented in the nearly fifty guests assembled at the Colonnade. It was also most rewarding to have Howard, GWU, St. E's and Georgetown be all represented.
A special note of appreciation was presented to Dr. Hind Benjelloun, President, Dr. Kayla Pope, Treasurer, Dr. Ashley Hilliard Secretary of DC Psychiatric Society for a job very well done. A note of thanks was expressed to our CLM mentors, to Area III and to Dr. Michael Houston who, during his WPS Presidency, supported the establishment of our CLM program.
Eliot Sorel, M.D., D.L.F.A.P.A.
Co-Chair, Founder, WPS CLM program
Colleagues,
The annual meeting of the DC Psychiatric Society, (a chapter of WPS), at MSDC last evening, September 15, 2010, was a smashing success !
This most successful professional meeting was attended by about thirty colleagues, young & and not as young, including Residents from St. E's, GWU, Howard & Georgetown, as well as senior WPS leaders, NIH Clinical Research Center staff and two non pharma sponsors. This unique event
- rekindled the DC Psych tradition of collaboration with MSDC
- had as keynote speaker Dr. Annelle Primm, Deputy Medical Director of the APA who spoke on HIV/AIDS in our Community
- celebrated the 5th anniversary of our first DC PGYI & PGYII meeting in 2005 at the Cosmos Club
- launching later, during Dr. Houston's WPS Presidency, our Career, Leadership & Mentorship program
- demonstrated the creative and effective leadership of our budding new generation of leaders
Many thanks and warmest congratulations to Drs. Hind Benjelloun, David, I Driver, Kayla Pope, Ashley Hilliard and to MSDC staff Barbara Allen & Chris Lee as well as to ED Shanbacker, MSDC ED who delivered this memorable evening.
Special thanks to our keynote speaker, Dr. Annelle Primm, our Career & Leadership mentors who were in attendance last evening, Drs. Houston, Peele, May, and Kesisling as well as a warm congratulations to Dr Tripitelli who won last evening's raffle provided by one of our sponsors.
It truly was a memorable & fun evening!
Eliot Sorel, M.D., D.L.F.A.P.A.
In support of a critical partnership between Georgetown University Medical Center and Howard University, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded a $38 million Clinical and Translational Sciences Award to aid the universities' effort to transform health care and preventive practices in communities through medical discoveries made in laboratories and clinical settings. The two Washington institutions will form the Georgetown-Howard Universities Center for Clinical and Translational Science (GHUCCTS). The $38,217,660 grant will be provided to the universities over five years, beginning July 2010. As part of the GHUCCTS, researchers will collaborate with MedStar Health/MedStar Research Institute in Hyattsville, Md., Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tenn., and the Washington DC Veteran's Affairs Medical Center to form one of the nation's largest biomedical and clinical research networks. The Center will be led jointly by Joseph Verbalis, MD, professor of medicine and chief of the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism at Georgetown, and Thomas Mellman, MD, professor of psychiatry and associate dean for clinical and translational research at Howard. They will serve as principal investigators. GHUCCTS activities will include supporting clinical research, community engagement, research training and career development, regulatory support, and technology development.
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Eliot Sorel, M.D., D.L.F.A.P.A., former WPS President and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry & of Global Health at the George Washington University School of Medicine & School of Public Health delivered the keynote lecture on Psychiatry & Primary Care Integration: American & British Perspectives at the invitation of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, in Edinburgh, Scotland, on Thursday, June 24th 2010. It was very well received, proved to be of great mutual interest and may lead to British-American projects on this important subject."
Photos by David Hathcox
Honorees at the President's Dinner
Beny J. Primm, M.D., President, Urban Resource Institute
Annelle B. Primm, M.D., M.PH., Deputy Medical Director of the APA and
Director of APA's Office of Minority and National Affairs
(Click to see bios)
 Hampton: Handbook of African Merican Health
Chapter by D. Lawson, WPS board member
Global Disaster: Lessons Learned from New Orleans, Haiti & Chile News
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Award Winners from the WPS 60th Celebration
Front Row (L to R): Mrs. Betty Robinson, widow of Dr. Luther Robinson, 2009 Psychiatrist of the Year; Dr. Kristen Reese, Chair, Montgomery County Citizens Review Panel, 2009 Community Service Award; Dr. Harold I. Eist, WPS Immediate Past President, 2009 Distinguished Service Award. Back Row (L to R):
Dr. David Driver, 2009 Resident of the Year Award, Dr. Eliot Sorel (Wellstone Award Founder), Eric Rosenthal, Executive Director, Mental Disability Rights International (MDRI) 2009 Wellstone Award
Not present – Franklin Goldstein, Esq, 2009 Meritorious Service Award.
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60th Anniversary Video
November 20, 2009
JW Marriott, Washington, DC.
WPS Members Meet with Haiti Ambassador- March, 2010
"Dr. Lawson, Dr. Perman and I had a meeting with the Ambassador Raymond Joseph
at the Embassy of Haiti. We had a nice meeting with the Ambassador, although he had a very busy schedule. Drs. Lawson, Perman and I talked with him; Jerry Perman spoke in French.
 The Ambassador felt so much at ease that he played the harmonica and he played a nostaligic song about his country. Dr. Perman could relate to him, with his passion for music. I felt moved by his desire to play nostalgic music. What a deep
moment in communicate with people he barely knows! It is true that emotions have no geographic boundaries!
We all wish the Ambassador the best success in helping Haiti to recover as fast as possible, given the circumstances/ We are very concerned about the emotional consequences for the victims of such a trauma and the percolating effect in the future generations, as we have seen this happening over and over.
-- Erminia Scarcella, MD
American Psychiatric Association to Spotlight Symposium on 'Hot Topics in Afro-American Mental Health'
This year the American Psychiatric Association will spotlight several sensitive issues facing the African American community, at its annual meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, May 22-26. Leading the team is David W. Smith, M.D., Addiction Psychiatrist with the Center for AIDS Research, Education and Services in Sacramento, California. More information...
On Friday, November 20, 2009 WPS presented its 2009 AWARDS to individuals and organizations for their exceptional and distinguished contributions to the mental health profession. Without their collective efforts we would not be as successful in our work. Click to see award winners (posted 12/4/09).
Photos by David Hathcox
Psychiatric Community Remembers Wayne S. Fenton, M.D.
Washington Convention Center - 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
For more information, please see the listing on the Event Calendar.
Learn about the scientific contributions by WPS members at the Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.
WPS members should log-on to For Members Only using their user name and password. Non-members should click here.
It is our pleasure to inform you that your WPS Assembly delegation- Roger Peele, Catherine May, and I- secured a $5000.00 grant for our Society to start a membership development initiative through a series of workshops on Developing your career, enhancing your leadership skills.
The series, designed for Residents and early career psychiatrists will be launched in January 2008 and run through June. Residents from GWU, Georgetown, Howard, ST.Eze. USUHS, Hopkins and Maryland will be invited. The planning committee will have its first meeting in early October. If you have ideas and/or wish to participate in this pioneering initiative, please let us know. Many thanks.
All the best,
Eliot Sorel,M.D.
hair, Developing your career, Enhancing your leadership skills
WPS Membership Development Initiative
Eliot Sorel, M.D., D.L.F.A.P.A., Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences in the GWU School of Medicine and of Global Health, Health Services Management and Leadership, in the School of Public Health and Health Services, participated as a Pan American Health Organization Advisor in the WHO/PAHO Conference, From Alma-Ata to the Millenium Development Goals, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 13-17, August devoted to developing equity based, comprehensive health care systems. The conference, attended by health ministers and deputy health ministers from sixty countries, as well as civil society, other policy makers, the academic and private sectors, was held at the Foreign Ministry of Argentina and adopted the Buenos Aires Declaration stating the principles and agreements of equity based, comprehensive health care systems.
Buenos Aires Declaration : English | Español
The Washington, DC Psychiatric Residents, united and linked with others nationally and globally, most cordially invite you to visit our Residents' Village, a virtual meeting place for area psych residents to share thoughts about their psychiatry experience, and to collect valuable resources and references to guide them in their residency years.
We encourage you to contribute to our Residents' Village as your spirit and generosity inspire you as a resident, a mentor, and/or a friend. Please visit the Residents' Village often and share your talents, knowledge, and wisdom with us and others on our network. Many thanks.
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Click here to read testimony from WPS members at the December 13, 2006, FDA Hearing.
On December 13 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration held hearings on its proposal to place a black box warning on antidepressants for adults indicating that these medications increase the likelihood of suicidal thoughts. Roger Peele, MD and Louis Kopolow, MD testified against placing such a warning on antidepressants. Each testified had three minutes to present. Following are the testimonies of Drs. Peele and Kopolow.
Access a summary of WPS-led presentations.
Read how group seeks to assess what the APA can do to further improve access to psychiatric care.
Dr. Eliot Sorel
A brief history of WPS by Eliot Sorel, MD DLFAPA
Read the Petitioner’s Memorandum filed on behalf of Harold Eist, MD in the Circuit Court of Montgomery County, Maryland
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A brief history
of WPS by Eliot Sorel, MD DLFAPA
Eliot Sorel, M.D., D.L.F.A.P.A., Executive Committee menber of the XIX
World Congress of Social Psychiatry, A Changing World: Challenges for
Society and for Social Psychiatry, cordially invites all our colleagues
to submit papers, symposia, and workshop proposals by contacting the
Congress Secretariat at www.wasp2007.cz.
The XIX World Congress of Social Psychiatry will take place in Prague,
the Czech Republic, October 21-24, 2007.
Nearly 120 WPS members and APA leaders came together
at Washington’s Cosmos Club on Nov. 14 to honor members and others
for outstanding service. View page 4-6 of the newsletter
to see highlights of the evening.
Read
the Petitioner’s Memorandum filed on behalf
of Harold Eist, MD in the Circuit Court of Montgomery County, Maryland
The first District of Columbia PGY I & II meeting
took place under the aegis of the Cosmos Club Health Group, on September
29th at the Club with excellent and enthusiastic participation of PGY
I & II from GWU, Howard, Georgetwon and St. Eze. The participants
also included Doctors Ray Scallettar, former Chairman of the Board of
the AMA, Annelle Primm, Director of Minority and National Affairs of
the APA, William B. Lawson, Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, Howard
University College of Medicine, Jeff Akman, Chairman Department of Psychiatry,
GW, Connie Dunlap, President, DC Psychiatric Society, and Eliot Sorel,
Chairman of the Cosmos Club Health Group and the meeting's convener.
The Residents expressed a very keen interest in continuing and building
on this event, a very keen wish to learn more about each other's programs,
and to get involved with the DC professional community. In addition
to the very good time had by all, one other concrete outcome from the
meeting may be a Transcultural Psychiatry Conference, next spring in
Washington, D.C. with broad institutional participation and representation
in the planning of the event. Dr. Sorel also presented special thanks
to Dr. Maryam Razavi, Chief Resident at GW, for her important contributions
in assisting with preparation of this pioneering and very successful
event.
The APA/WPA Transectional Symposium "Global
Disasters: Psychiatric Medicine and Public Health Challenges" received
extensive and laudatory coverage in the August 24, 2005 issue of the
Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA 2005;294: 889-890).
The Carter Center program, a first at the
APA Annual Meeting, was organized by the APA Council on Global Psychiatry
and the WPA Conflict Management & Resolution Section, in collaboration
with the WPA Disaster Psychiatry and Occupational Psychiatry Sections,
WHO, and CDC in Atlanta.
Learn about the program's mission and find links
to WPS's embassy partners with the article, WPS
International Graduates and Embassies Link for Disaster Preparedness
Are you ready? All providers covered by HIPAA's Security
Rule must be in compliance with the Rule's requirements for the confidentiality
of electronic protected health information. Be prepared for the deadline:
read this guide to HIPAA's
Security Rule to learn more. The guide is courtesy of The
Psychiatrists' Program, the APA-endorsed Psychiatrists' Professional
Liability Insurance Program.
Eliot Sorel, M.D., D.F.A.P.A., Clinical Professor
of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences in the School of Medicine and
of Global Health, Health Services Management and Leadership in the School
of Public Health participated in the World Psychiatric Association's
Congress in Florence, Italy, November 10-12, 2004. He chaired the symposia
on Stress, Depression and Cardiac Events, Access to Mental Health Care
Impediments : African, American and European Perspectives and launched
the book he edited 21st Century Romanian Psychiatry done collaboratively
with Romanian colleagues, Professor Ahmed Okasha, President WPA and
Professor Mario Maj, Secretary for Publications, WPA.
Eliot Sorel, M.D., D.F.A.P.A., Clinical Professor
of Global Health in the School of Public Health and of Psychiatry and
Behavioral Sciences in the School of Medicine recently chaired the Ethics
in Medicine, Psychiatric Medicine and Public Health symposium at the
XVIII World Congress of Social Psychiatry, Globalization and Diversity.
As part of the symposium he presented Validity, Specificity and Reliability
of Informed Consent. Additionally he was part of the Kobe Declaration
work group, a historic document addressed to all UN members states and
unanimously adopted by the World Association for Social Psychiatry,
the World Psychiatric Association, the World Association for Psychosocial
Rehabilitation, the World Federation for Mental Health, and the Japanese
Society for Social Psychiatry, on October 26, 2004.
Access the powerpoint file detailing the Acute
Care Plan.
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to become a member.
Maryland's EP statute now allows police to bring
a person to emergency room if individual presents a danger to the life
or safety of the individual or of others. This changes the prior statute
which required imminent dangerousness. Click here
for entire article.
The APA has valuable information on disaster psychiatry,
available here.
For more information on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, view this presentation,
courtesy of the University of Wisconsin, Pfizer Inc., and Dr. John Greist.
To receive CME credit for this presentation, take the posttest after
Slide 34 in PowerPoint and follow directions for submission. You can
view the PowerPoint file,
or view it in Adobe
Acrobat.
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