09/29/10

=psychIG meeting=

09/29/10

 * Present: Jennifer Kitching, Tymberly Ellis-Field, Jason Garner, Leah Green, Jim Boehnlein, MD, Richard Bruno, Nina Sparr


 * Noontime Talks suggestions
 * Neurobiology of Addiction, esp MDs (Dr Vern Williams, Hazeldon)
 * Forensic psychiatry (Dr Landy Sparr)
 * Intercultural/Immigrant work (Dr Jim Boehnlein [Latin Am] or Dr Mark Kinzie or Dr Landy Sparr [Bosnia])
 * Smoking Cessation workshop (Dr Michael Resnick)
 * AA panel
 * Healing Power (Dr Philip Shapiro, CCC 12th ave Recovery Center)
 * Imaging modalities as objective measures of psychiatric illness (Dr Fair or Dr Nigg)
 * Oregon Health Plan/Verity plans to increase mental health coverage—how can we advocate as students? (Dr Pollack)
 * Workforce needs, team approach, prescribing psychologists, etc (Dr Pollack)
 * Antidepressants (Dr Erick Turner’s metanalysis of unfavorable/unpublished drug profiles)
 * PharmFree campaign (how to opt out of the AMA’s masterfile, so they are not selling your DEA # to the pharm industry)
 * DSM-V overview (when it is released)
 * Community Mental Health resources (Dr Tanya Page? OHSU psych intake coordinator)
 * Centrone (formerly Outside In)
 * Chuck Sve (CCC) panel
 * Sleep hygiene (recognizing sleep disorders in the primary care setting)


 * Activities
 * AA meeting visits: Nina will set up with her AA contacts, registration
 * Journal Club (with Neuro Interest Group and Neurosurgery Interest Group)
 * Brain in the Box project (with Brain Institute)
 * Grand rounds
 * 1NW inpatient unit tour with residents
 * Tour the state hospital ("therapeutic mall")
 * American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry (AAGP), San Antonio, TX: Conference site


 * Funds (around $100 left from last year)
 * Psych dept will pay for a few lunches
 * Chinook Books fundraiser: Sep-Dec, $20, we get $10
 * APA Helping Hands grant for community mental health project