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Advancing Integrated Psychiatric Care for the Medically Ill

2023 Webinars – July 12

Wednesday July 12

Title: QT Prolongation, Torsades de Pointes, and Psychotropic Medications: A 5-Year Update

Time/Date: 12:30 - 1:00 PM EDT

Platform: Zoom

Discussant: Scott Beach, MD, FACLP

Moderator: Chris Celano, MD, FACLP

Description: This session’s article will be presented by Dr. Scott Beach. Dr. Beach is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and an attending psychiatrist on the Psychiatry Consultation and Acute Psychiatry Services at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Beach’s interests include QTc prolongation and psychiatric medications, catatonia and related syndromes, neuropsychiatric effects of COVID-19, and deception syndromes. He has authored over 50 peer-reviewed publications and more than 25 book chapters, and he has edited two books.

In preparation for this journal club session, please read the article, which should be available at no charge, beforehand: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0033318217302207