Thursday, April 11

All times are in EDT.

You may attend any sessions, regardless of which organization you registered through.

7:30am - 6:00pm

Registration (Outside Crystal Ballroom)

7:30am - 10:30am

Coffee & Tea Bar [Outside Crystal Ballroom]

8:30 - 9:00am

Welcome to the 45th Annual Meeting [Crystal Ballroom]

Alan Teo, MD, MS, SSPC President & Oregon Health & Science University

9:00-10:15am

Panel Discussion: Transformative Community Engagement Strategies: Reshaping cultural psychiatry and shifting power

(Crystal Ballroom)

Amy Gajaria MD, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), Margaret and Wallace McCain Centre for Child, Youth, & Family Mental Health, University of Toronto

Josephine Pui-Hing Wong, RN, PhD, Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing, Dalla Lana School of Public Health (Status-appointment), Toronto Metropolitan University

Brie Kohrt, PhD, Children’s National Hospital/George Washington University

Alan Teo, MD, MS, Oregon Health & Science University

10:15 - 10:30am

Break and Connecting

10:30am - 12:00pm

Symposium: Advancing Suicide Prevention among Ethnoracially Minoritized Youth through Community-Engaged Research

(Kensington)

  • Biopsychosocial risk factors related to Guyanese youth suicide behavior: A community-based approach (Ellen-ge Denton, PsyD)

  • Understanding belongingness and burdensomeness through the eyes of Latinx and Black adolescents in the United States (Carolina Vélez-Grau, PhD, Boston College)

  • Online racial discrimination and suicidal ideation among Latinx/e adolescents in the U.S. (Lillian Polanco-Roman, PhD, The New School, Dept. of Psychology)

  • Online Racial Discrimination on Depression and Suicidal Ideation among Ethnoracially Minoritized Young Adults in the U.S.: The Roles of Sleep and Family Support (Jazmin Reyes-Portillo, PhD, Montclair State University)

Workshop: The “Othering” of Lived Experience within Global Mental Health research

[Crystal Ballroom]

Alejandra Paniagua-Avila, MD, DrPH, MPH, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University

Manaswi Dangraula, PhD, MPH, New School for Social Science Research

Tony V. Pham, MD, MScGH, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital

Syd Gravel, MOM, OOO, Co-Lead of the Peer Support Team, Peer Support Specialist

Workshop: Hope Modules – Countering Demoralization from Chronic, Severe, or Uncontrollable Stressors in Global Mental Health [Belgravia]

James Griffith, MD, MS, George Washington University

Aryan Tafreshi, MD, George Washington University 

Greg Kreitzer, BA, MEd, George Washington University

12:00 - 1:30

Lunch (on own)

1:30 - 3:00pm

Hughes and Spiegel Fellowship Award Presentation

[Crystal Ballroom]

First- and Second-Generation Immigrants’ Criteria and Concerns about Accessing Mental Health Care

Sarah Benkirane, BA, Université du Québec à Montréal

Paper Session: Navigating Interprofessional and Cross-Cultural Approaches to Mental Health Care

(Kensington)

  • Migration background, eating disorder symptoms, and healthcare service utilization: findings from the Stockholm Public Health Cohort (Mattias Strand, MD, PhD, Karolinska

    Institute & The Transcultural Center)

  • Cultural Concepts of Distress in Haiti: Understanding "Maladi Moun" in the DSM-5 (Jude Mary Cénat, PhD, School of Psychology, University of Ottawa Guesly Michel, Edny Pierre, Eurine Manguira)

  • Evaluation of an Individual Learning Opportunity Utilizing an Asian American Studies-Themed Mental Health Workbook (Richard Zhang, MD, MA; Rocio Chang, PsyD; Grace Chan, PhD; Trisha Pitter, MS; University of Connecticut)

Paper Session: Innovations and Challenges in Mental Health Task Sharing and Intervention Selection

(Belgravia)

  • How to select a psychological intervention that can be delivered by non-specialists: An illustrated guide (Ruta Rangel, Center for Global Mental Health Equity at George Washington University)

  • Task Sharing Approaches to Mental Healthcare: Lessons Learned from Community-Academic Partnerships (Chynere Best, Center for Global Mental Health Equity at George Washington University)

3:00 - 3:15

Break

3:15 - 4:45pm

Workshop: Decolonizing mental health care for Spanish-speaking communities: How supporting and valuing bilingual/bicultural providers disrupts oppression in healthcare settings

(Kensington)

Brie Kohrt, PhD, Childrens National Hospital/George Washington University
Yessenia Mejia, PsyD, NYU Langone
David Martinez, PhD, University of San Francisco/ALAS

Workshop: Implementing a Community Psychiatry Fellowship to Train Future Mental Health Professionals in Cultural Psychiatry

(Crystal Ballroom)

Haryashpal Bhullar, DO; Ana Turner, MD; Thomas Finstein, DO; Brian D. Allgood

Paper Session: Healing Through Understanding: Exploring Trauma Across Generations, Power Structures and Spaces

(Belgravia)

  • Integrating community-based approaches to address perinatal mental health and transgenerational trauma in post-conflict settings: Lessons from Northern Sri Lanka (Fiona C. Thomas, PhD, MSc, Toronto Metropolitan University)

  • Food, memory, and transgenerational trauma (Mattias Strand, MD, PhD, Karolinska Institute & The Transcultural Center)

  • Addressing Power Imbalances in Humanitarian Aid: Exploring Treatment Paradigms for Moral Injury and Decolonizing Aid (Gwen Mitchell, PsyD)

4:45 - 5:00pm

Break

5:00 - 6:00pm

Mentorship Roundtables

(Kensington)

  1. Career Mentorship in Cultural Psychiatry – James Griffith, Jaswant Guzdar, Francis Lui, James Boehnlein

  2. Research and Publishing in Peer-Reviewed Journals – Alan Teo

  3. Training/Education – Kenneth Fung, E. Yuen, Larry Merkel

6:30 - 8:30pm

Welcome Reception and Dinner (Dinner Served) (Crystal Ballroom)

Join us for complimentary cocktails and soft drinks with delicious appetizers before our sit-down dinner!