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‘We encourage you to plan ahead to make the most of your meeting experience’
From Natalie Jacobowski, MD, chair, General Sessions Subcommittee of the Annual Meeting Committee
CLP 2024 has a broad array of excellent General Sessions planned that support the Annual Meeting theme and cover a wide range of C-L Psychiatry, including some C-L subspecialty domains and topics that have not been recently presented at ACLP. The General Sessions subcommittee is proud to provide a preview to some of what you can anticipate at this year’s meeting—highlights of a few tracks and themes to inspire you to review the meeting schedule and start to select some of the sessions you want to attend in advance.
In line with the meeting theme, there is an Integrative Medicine and Whole Person Health track and integrative medicine themes across other tracks as well.Take This, It’s Good For You will discuss the placebo effect and the ability to utilize this real, measurable, and powerful effect within C-L Psychiatry. The integrative and whole person theme is also being explored within several subspecialty C-L domains, including transplant psychiatry, psycho-oncology and brain tumors, functional neurologic disorders, burn psychiatry, and more. The meeting also includes skill-based integrative sessions regarding hypnosis within critical care and hospital psychiatry, as well as a hands-on session regarding utilizing the vagus nerve in treating psychiatric illness.
In the spirit of our theme of promoting whole health through innovative and integrative approaches to C-L Psychiatry, a new track this year emphasizes nutrition and eating disorders. One of the featured sessions Nutrition and Your Brain (Body too) will integrate nutrition in our practice of C-L Psychiatry in an interactive format. To further enhance your integrative medicine knowledge, we encourage exploring What’s Really Bugging You? – The Role of the Gut Microbiome in Modulating Psychiatric Disease in the C-L Setting. Obesity and the intersection with psychiatry is explored within multiple sessions with sessions covering management of obesity and co-occurring psychiatric disorders, an ethnoculturally sensitive approach to weight, body habitus, and health, and a pharmacology focus on antipsychotic-induced metabolic syndrome. Eating disorder care and ethics coincide to discuss: Should we Allow Patients with Eating Disorders to Die? Ethical Considerations and the Debate Over Terminal Anorexia.
“We hope this sampling piques your interest with familiar and novel topics pertinent to C-L Psychiatry”
Of course, some perennial topics of interest to the ACLP membership will be highlighted in some new and intriguing sessions sure to catch the attention of many. Delirium will be highlighted in a timely session Review of the Updated American Psychiatry Association Clinical Practice Guidelines for Delirium given the imminent publication of these guidelines. A range of speakers from trainees to one of the co-creators of the Bush-Francis rating scale will present Catatonia and Delirium: Integrative Approaches to Phenomenology, Diagnosis, and Treatment. The complex, important, and hot topic of medical assistance in dying will again be featured in what hopes to be a widely applicable session: Controversial Topics in Medical Assistance in Dying: Both Sides Now.
And in addition to those perennial topics, several topics that have not been recently presented are included within the meeting schedule. A sampling of some of the subspecialty psychiatry presented includes: whole person care for patients with burn injuries, the latest updates in sickle cell care, innovative approaches for patients living with HIV/AIDS care, and integrating addiction care into C-L practice—all included in this year’s schedule. Women’s Health is highlighted within one of this year’s tracks with child psychiatry with sessions including post-partum care and the psychiatric sequelae of menses and gynecologic disorders and child psychiatry highlighting social media and the impact of the virtual self across the lifespan, as well as the phenomenon of illness and diagnosis-seeking in the AYA population via TikTok. Beyond social media, important social themes impacting our patients and the practice of psychiatry will also be emphasized through sessions such as C-L Psychiatry’s Role in Responding to Whole Health Needs of Patients Who’ve Experienced Human Trafficking and In Crisis Together: Psychiatric and Medical Care of New Migrants to the United States.
Multiple non-clinical sessions round out the rich array of clinically oriented sessions. Artificial Intelligence and Its Potential Impact on C-L Training: Amplifying Innovation or Assailing Integrity? will highlight these cutting-edge technological advances and their impact on medicine and psychiatry. Important topics in fellowship education include sessions highlighting innovative perspectives on the structure of C-L Psychiatry training in residency and fellowship, as well as awareness and skills for intervention regarding navigating bias and microaggressions in C-L Psychiatry education. A featured session, Advancing Women in Leadership: Current Challenges in Future Opportunities, is sure to be of interest and benefit to ACLP community.
Many excellent sessions are included in the schedule beyond those highlighted here in this brief overview, but we are hopeful that this sampling piques your interest in the 2024 Annual Meeting with familiar and novel topics pertinent to C-L Psychiatry. We encourage you to plan ahead to make the most of your meeting experience, and we look forward to seeing you in Miami!