Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry


Registration for the 2024 Annual Meeting is Open!! Registration for the ACLP 2024 Annual Meeting: Promoting Whole Health through Innovative and Integrative Approaches to Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry is now open. Register here. Book your accommodation at the meeting venue here.

Registration for the 2024 Annual Meeting is Open!!

Registration for the ACLP 2024 Annual Meeting: Promoting Whole Health through Innovative and Integrative Approaches to Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry is now open. Register here.

Book your accommodation at the meeting venue here.

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More courses on offer to heighten your skills

This year we have a great line-up of new and exciting preconference skills courses as well as continued popular course offerings (see below for highlights).Wednesday also includes several free offerings for our members, including a half-day Advocacy Skills Course as well as An Experiential Course in Reflective Writing and our Updates in C-L Psychiatry. More preconference course sessions were featured in the July edition of ACLP News here.

The Use of Supplements, Vitamins and Minerals for Psychiatry: Current Evidence
The nutraceutical and supplement industry increasingly attracts patients looking for more natural ways to address their mental health challenges. Meanwhile, clinicians often lack the bandwidth to stay abreast of the evidence base (or lack thereof) of such interventions. In this clinical skills course, speakers will provide an overview of the use of supplements, vitamins, and minerals in psychiatry with special attention to their evidence base and safety. This course will provide an overview and review of supplements commonly used by psychiatrists (omega 3s, SamE, NAC, St Johns Wort, lavender, rhodiola, saffron, inositol), and will review their indications, evidence base, interactions, and safety. Speakers are (l-r): Felicia Smith, MD, Ana Ivkovic, MD, Molly Cinderella, MD; Seema Quraishi, MD; and Andrea DeSimone, DO.

The Use of Supplements, Vitamins and Minerals for Psychiatry: Current Evidence

The nutraceutical and supplement industry increasingly attracts patients looking for more natural ways to address their mental health challenges. Meanwhile, clinicians often lack the bandwidth to stay abreast of the evidence base (or lack thereof) of such interventions. In this clinical skills course, speakers will provide an overview of the use of supplements, vitamins, and minerals in psychiatry with special attention to their evidence base and safety. This course will provide an overview and review of supplements commonly used by psychiatrists (omega 3s, SamE, NAC, St Johns Wort, lavender, rhodiola, saffron, inositol), and will review their indications, evidence base, interactions, and safety.

Vitamins and Minerals course — Speakers are (l-r): Felicia Smith, MD, Ana Ivkovic, MD, Molly Cinderella, MD; Seema Quraishi, MD; and Andrea DeSimone, DO.

Coaching Hacks: Life and Leadership Skills for C-L Docs
International Coaching Federation-trained professional coaches, Linda Worley, MD, FACLP, this year’s recipient of the ACLP Eleanor and Thomas P. Hackett Memorial Award, and ACLP past president (2022-2023) Maryland Pao, MD, FACLP, will review basics about how coaching, mentoring, and sponsorship differ. They will illustrate how coaching can be utilized to live a fulfilling life and career. Linda Worley, MD, FACLP, and Maryland Pao, MD, FACLP This transformative group coaching session is for aspiring leaders who seek clarity of purpose, leadership skills, and personal growth. The session will be co-facilitated by two ACLP past presidents, both ICF-trained executive leadership coaches who lead with authenticity and transparency. Participants in the coaching session will examine personal priorities and professional goals, utilizing self-assessments before and during the course. Activities include private introspection, interactive sharing and feedback, focused didactics, and small group exercises. The coaches will emphasize: Setting personal intentions. Personal mastery including self-awareness, self-regulation, and motivation in the context of leadership styles. Key leadership skills including ‘signature voice’, non-verbal communications, leading meetings, effective negotiations, respecting time, executive presence, and media tips. Clarifying the influence of values and personality on management style. Action planning and commitment. This course is about recognizing your strengths and clarifying the deeply held values that fuel your desire to lead. It is also about equipping your leadership tool belt with important skills that may come in handy on your journey ahead.

Coaching Hacks: Life and Leadership Skills for C-L Docs

International Coaching Federation-trained professional coaches, Linda Worley, MD, FACLP, this year’s recipient of the ACLP Eleanor and Thomas P. Hackett Memorial Award, and ACLP past president (2022-2023) Maryland Pao, MD, FACLP, will review basics about how coaching, mentoring, and sponsorship differ. They will illustrate how coaching can be utilized to live a fulfilling life and career.

Linda Worley, MD, FACLP and Maryland Pao, MD, FACLP — Linda Worley, MD, FACLP, and Maryland Pao, MD, FACLP

This transformative group coaching session is for aspiring leaders who seek clarity of purpose, leadership skills, and personal growth. The session will be co-facilitated by two ACLP past presidents, both ICF-trained executive leadership coaches who lead with authenticity and transparency. Participants in the coaching session will examine personal priorities and professional goals, utilizing self-assessments before and during the course. Activities include private introspection, interactive sharing and feedback, focused didactics, and small group exercises. The coaches will emphasize:

Setting personal intentions.
Personal mastery including self-awareness, self-regulation, and motivation in the context of leadership styles.
Key leadership skills including ‘signature voice’, non-verbal communications, leading meetings, effective negotiations, respecting time, executive presence, and media tips.
Clarifying the influence of values and personality on management style.
Action planning and commitment.

This course is about recognizing your strengths and clarifying the deeply held values that fuel your desire to lead. It is also about equipping your leadership tool belt with important skills that may come in handy on your journey ahead.

An Experiential Course in Reflective Writing: Creative Narratives to Promote Whole Health in Our Patients and Ourselves
New! This FREE preconference offering will utilize a brief skills course format to deliver a high-yield experience for attendees in 2½ hours. Participants will gain a heightened awareness of how reflective writing can feed the personal and enrich the professional in elevating satisfaction and meaning in the practice of C-L Psychiatry. In this interactive course, facilitators will lead participants through a series of exercises to foster integration of narrative writing into C-L Psychiatry practice with patients, encourage the development of reflective writing as a part of personal whole health, and explore how creative writing skills can enhance academic creativity and professional satisfaction. All that is required is that you bring a notebook, a writing utensil, and a willingness to try something new! Speakers are (l-r): Madeline Li, MD, Rachel Hammer, MD, and J. Michael Bostwick, MD, FACLP.

An Experiential Course in Reflective Writing: Creative Narratives to Promote Whole Health in Our Patients and Ourselves

New! This FREE preconference offering will utilize a brief skills course format to deliver a high-yield experience for attendees in 2½ hours. Participants will gain a heightened awareness of how reflective writing can feed the personal and enrich the professional in elevating satisfaction and meaning in the practice of C-L Psychiatry. In this interactive course, facilitators will lead participants through a series of exercises to foster integration of narrative writing into C-L Psychiatry practice with patients, encourage the development of reflective writing as a part of personal whole health, and explore how creative writing skills can enhance academic creativity and professional satisfaction. All that is required is that you bring a notebook, a writing utensil, and a willingness to try something new!

Professor Madeline Li, MD, Rachel Hammer, MD, and J. Michael Bostwick, MD, FACLP. — Speakers are (l-r): Madeline Li, MD, Rachel Hammer, MD, and J. Michael Bostwick, MD, FACLP.

Clinical Updates in Emergency Psychiatry: Integrated Care at its Best
Sponsored by ACLP’s Emergency Psychiatry SIG, the American Association for Emergency Psychiatry and The Behavioral Emergency Section, ACEP, this course will focus on behavioral emergencies frequently seen in the emergency department (ED). This comprehensive course will teach culturally informed psychiatric assessment in improving patient experience and decreasing behavioral agitation in the ED setting. The course offers tips, and tricks that can be employed to ensure that consults are comprehensive, efficient, and tailored for the emergency medicine setting. Through presentations, interactive cases presentations, and panel discussions, you will learn to apply standardized approaches to complex suicide risk assessment. You will also understand legal requirements that impact the standard of care and clinical decision-making in the ED. Panelists will discuss how to implement a mental health care plan allowing for proactive interventions, health promoting programming, and medical interventions. Disposition planning will also be covered, as well as what exactly makes a patient ‘medically clear.’ Speakers are (l-r): Austin MacKenzie, MD; Scott Simpson, MD, FACLP; Shuchi Khosla, MD; Victor Stiebel, MD, FACLP; and Priyanka Amin, MD.

Clinical Updates in Emergency Psychiatry: Integrated Care at its Best

Sponsored by ACLP’s Emergency Psychiatry SIG, the American Association for Emergency Psychiatry and The Behavioral Emergency Section, ACEP, this course will focus on behavioral emergencies frequently seen in the emergency department (ED). This comprehensive course will teach culturally informed psychiatric assessment in improving patient experience and decreasing behavioral agitation in the ED setting. The course offers tips, and tricks that can be employed to ensure that consults are comprehensive, efficient, and tailored for the emergency medicine setting. Through presentations, interactive cases presentations, and panel discussions, you will learn to apply standardized approaches to complex suicide risk assessment. You will also understand legal requirements that impact the standard of care and clinical decision-making in the ED. Panelists will discuss how to implement a mental health care plan allowing for proactive interventions, health promoting programming, and medical interventions. Disposition planning will also be covered, as well as what exactly makes a patient ‘medically clear.’

Speakers are (l-r): Austin MacKenzie, MD; Scott Simpson, MD, FACLP; Shuchi Khosla, MD; Victor Stiebel, MD, FACLP; and Priyanka Amin, MD.

Hypnosis and Mindfulness for C-L Psychiatrists Treating Anxiety and Pain
This course will explore hypnosis, an integrative care practice, that has been used clinically for hundreds of years. Hypnosis is a useful skill for C-L psychiatrists to acquire and can be used for control of anxiety, insomnia, pain, or phobias that interfere with medical treatment in the inpatient or outpatient setting. This intervention can be particularly helpful in situations where complex medical issues or medical frailty may limit the use of psychotropic medications. Participants will work in large and smaller groups, to learn and practice inductions and self-hypnosis with supervision of trained facilitators. Speakers are (l-r): Philip Muskin, MD, MA, LFACLP, DLFAPA, Pamela Mirsky, MD, FACLP; Alba Lara, MD; and Christina Garza, MD, FACLP, FAPA.

Hypnosis and Mindfulness for C-L Psychiatrists Treating Anxiety and Pain

This course will explore hypnosis, an integrative care practice, that has been used clinically for hundreds of years. Hypnosis is a useful skill for C-L psychiatrists to acquire and can be used for control of anxiety, insomnia, pain, or phobias that interfere with medical treatment in the inpatient or outpatient setting. This intervention can be particularly helpful in situations where complex medical issues or medical frailty may limit the use of psychotropic medications. Participants will work in large and smaller groups, to learn and practice inductions and self-hypnosis with supervision of trained facilitators.

Playing Catch Up in the ICU: The Role of Psychiatrists in Navigating Mental Status Alteration in Critically-Ill Patients
The Critical Care Psychiatry SIG presents an ever-popular course in navigating complex intensive care cases. Presenters will go through the assessment of mental status, the differential diagnosis of mental status alteration in the critical care setting, and the role of critical care psychiatrists. The course covers the management of pain, immobility, anxiety, and sleep disruption in the ICU. Faculty will demonstrate skills in conducting state-of-the-art bedside neuropsychiatric testing—and the introduction of novel technologies for the assessment of altered mental status. Our experts will discuss multiple psycho-pharmacological prevention and management of techniques that could be used in critical care units; pharmacologic neurotoxicities and their complications; drug-drug interactions; as well as differentiating and managing potentially lethal medication side-effects such as serotonin syndrome and NMS. Speakers are (l-r): Jihoon Ha, MD; Shixie Jiang, MD; José Maldonado, MD, FACLP; and Matthew Gunther, MA, MD.

Playing Catch Up in the ICU: The Role of Psychiatrists in Navigating Mental Status Alteration in Critically-Ill Patients

The Critical Care Psychiatry SIG presents an ever-popular course in navigating complex intensive care cases. Presenters will go through the assessment of mental status, the differential diagnosis of mental status alteration in the critical care setting, and the role of critical care psychiatrists. The course covers the management of pain, immobility, anxiety, and sleep disruption in the ICU. Faculty will demonstrate skills in conducting state-of-the-art bedside neuropsychiatric testing—and the introduction of novel technologies for the assessment of altered mental status. Our experts will discuss multiple psycho-pharmacological prevention and management of techniques that could be used in critical care units; pharmacologic neurotoxicities and their complications; drug-drug interactions; as well as differentiating and managing potentially lethal medication side-effects such as serotonin syndrome and NMS.

Speakers are (l-r): Jihoon Ha, MD; Shixie Jiang, MD; José Maldonado, MD, FACLP; and Matthew Gunther, MA, MD.

Psycho-Oncology Crash Course: Psychiatric Care of Patients with Cancer for the General C-L Psychiatrist and Psycho-Oncology Specialist
Speakers are (l-r): Damien Miran, MD; Jon Levenson, MD, FACLP, DFAPA; Katiuska Ramirez, MD; Sheila Lahijani, MD; and Stephanie Schmitz, MD. This course, led by the Psycho-Oncology and Palliative Medicine SIG, teaches holistic management of patients with cancer, and about the complex field of psycho-oncology. It reviews the current state of psycho-oncology care and the role of C-L psychiatrists in cancer care. Current treatment approaches in oncology will be reviewed with a focus on interaction/interference with psychiatric care. The course will focus on the treatment of associated symptoms including depression, anxiety, existential distress, and a range of neuropsychiatric symptoms. CAR-T cell therapy will also be reviewed, as well as common sequelae including graft-versus-host disease, cytokine release syndrome, and immune effector cell-associated neurotoxicity syndrome.The course will also discuss ethical considerations in the treatment of the whole patient, including approaches to end-of-life care and advanced care planning in patients with advanced cancers.

Psycho-Oncology Crash Course: Psychiatric Care of Patients with Cancer for the General C-L Psychiatrist and Psycho-Oncology Specialist

Speakers are (l-r): Damien Miran, MD; Jon Levenson, MD, FACLP, DFAPA; Katiuska Ramirez, MD; Sheila Lahijani, MD; and Stephanie Schmitz, MD.

This course, led by the Psycho-Oncology and Palliative Medicine SIG, teaches holistic management of patients with cancer, and about the complex field of psycho-oncology. It reviews the current state of psycho-oncology care and the role of C-L psychiatrists in cancer care. Current treatment approaches in oncology will be reviewed with a focus on interaction/interference with psychiatric care. The course will focus on the treatment of associated symptoms including depression, anxiety, existential distress, and a range of neuropsychiatric symptoms. CAR-T cell therapy will also be reviewed, as well as common sequelae including graft-versus-host disease, cytokine release syndrome, and immune effector cell-associated neurotoxicity syndrome.The course will also discuss ethical considerations in the treatment of the whole patient, including approaches to end-of-life care and advanced care planning in patients with advanced cancers.

Updates in Transplant Psychiatry
This course is focused on solid organ transplantation and prepares C-L psychiatrists working with transplant teams of the field’s latest medical and psychosocial developments. Faculty will cover up-to-date practical information in a concise and interactive format, focusing on updates in important nomenclature: living donation, relevant toxicology, early liver transplantation for alcohol-associated liver disease, and vascularized composite allotransplantation. The course also provides an overview on psychosocial assessment in organ donation. Details of living donor evaluations will be discussed, such as APOL1 testing, as well as other relevant issues such as soliciting living donors. There will also be a review of diagnostic evaluation of substance use disorders, monitoring abstinence/adherence, identifying relapses, and their role and relevance in psychosocial candidacy evaluations for transplantation. Presenters will discuss therapies, such as ELT (Electro-Lymphatic Drainage Therapy), for severe acute alcohol-associated hepatitis and other emerging interventions for managing recurring alcohol use disorder. Speakers are (l-r): Yelizaveta Sher, MD, FACLP; Shruti Mutalik, MD; David Fipps, MD; Filza Hussain, MD, FACLP; and Gerald Scott Winder, MD, MSc, FACLP.

Updates in Transplant Psychiatry

This course is focused on solid organ transplantation and prepares C-L psychiatrists working with transplant teams of the field’s latest medical and psychosocial developments. Faculty will cover up-to-date practical information in a concise and interactive format, focusing on updates in important nomenclature: living donation, relevant toxicology, early liver transplantation for alcohol-associated liver disease, and vascularized composite allotransplantation. The course also provides an overview on psychosocial assessment in organ donation. Details of living donor evaluations will be discussed, such as APOL1 testing, as well as other relevant issues such as soliciting living donors. There will also be a review of diagnostic evaluation of substance use disorders, monitoring abstinence/adherence, identifying relapses, and their role and relevance in psychosocial candidacy evaluations for transplantation. Presenters will discuss therapies, such as ELT (Electro-Lymphatic Drainage Therapy), for severe acute alcohol-associated hepatitis and other emerging interventions for managing recurring alcohol use disorder.

Speakers are (l-r): Yelizaveta Sher, MD, FACLP; Shruti Mutalik, MD; David Fipps, MD; Filza Hussain, MD, FACLP; and Gerald Scott Winder, MD, MSc, FACLP.

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