Saturday, April 13

All times are in EDT.

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

8:00 - 10:30am

Coffee Bar [Outside Crystal Ballroom]


8:30 - 9:00am

Announcements, Reflections, & Introductions to Keynote

[Crystal Ballroom]

What have we learned, what have we shared, and where do we go from here?

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


8:30 - 9:00am

Announcements, Reflections, & Introductions to Keynote

[Crystal Ballroom]

What have we learned, what have we shared, and where do we go from here?

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


9:00 - 10:30am

Keynote Speaker: Meaningful Community Engagement Matters: Trust and Trustworthiness are Front and Center

[Crystal Ballroom]

Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola, MD, PhD, Professor of Internal Medicine, Director, Center for Reducing Health Disparities, UC Davis


10:30 - 10:45

Break


10:45 - 12:00

Workshop: I feel helpless: Utilization of family and systems modalities to inspire hope and effect change

[Belgravia]

Namita Arboleda, MD; Madeleine Abrams, LMSW; Emily Kager, MD; Julia Vileisis, MD, Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Workshop: Rhythms of Resilience: Culturally Inclusive Music Exploration Groups for Psychiatric Patients

[Kensington]

Tai West, MD, JD; Joseph Fedner, LSW, MBA; Nicholas Velmahos, MD, Hackensack Meridian Ocean University Medical Center

Symposium: The US National Institutes of Health Transformative Research to Address Health Disparities and Advance Health Equity Program. Projects on Mental Health

[Crystal Ballroom]

  • Health Disparities Programs at NIH - ComPASS and THD (Cheryl Boyce, PhD, National Institutes of Health, Office of the Director)

  • Transformative Research to Address Health Disparities and Advance Health Equity Program: Overview of Cohorts 1 and 2. (Nadra Tyus, PhD, National Institutes of Health, Office of the Director)

  • The ComPASS program and its connection to mental health (Dr. Collene Lawhorn, National Institute of Mental Health)

  • Transformative Research to Address Health Disparities and Advance Health Equity Initiative: Mental Health Projects. (Mauricio Rangel-Gomez, PhD, National Institute of Mental Health)

Workshop (SSPC): Decrease Stigma and Increase Access to Mental Health Services for Asian Americans by a Culturally Adaptive Multidisciplinary Approach —--Our 8 Years of Efforts

[Windsor-A]

Huixing Lu, MSW; Xiaoping Shao, MD; Yao-Yao Zhu, MD, Chinese Culture and Community Services Center, Inc.


12:15 - 1:45

Lunch & Learn (Deli Buffet Included)

[Crystal Ballroom]

Using PhotoVoice as a participatory research method to collaborate with people with lived experience.

Sauharda Rai, PhD, Center for Global Mental Health Equity at George Washington University
Binita Acharya, BPH,
Transcultural Psychosocial Organization – TPO Nepal
Wilfred Gwaikolo
MPH, MSc
Ruta Rangel,
Center for Global Mental Health Equity at George Washington University
Gaurav Dutta, PhD, University of North Dakota


2:00 - 3:30

Workshop: Towards a culturally informed approach to the classification of personality disorders

[Windsor-A]

Samrad Ghane, PhD, Parnassia Psychiatric Institute

Symposium: Culturally adapted assessment of mental health problems and interventions for refugees

[Belgravia]

  • Mental Health Among Refugees from the Middle East and Ukraine: A Network Analytic Comparative Study of Post-Migration Stressors (Arwin Nemani, MSc, Goethe University)

  • Explanatory models and treatment preferences among Ukrainian refugees in Germany: A formative study (Schahryar Kananian, PhD, Goethe University)

  • Culturally adapted cognitive-behavioral group therapy plus problem solving training for mental disorders in refugees: a multicenter randomized-controlled trial (Ulrich Stangier, Prof. Dr., Goethe University)

Paper Session: Interprofessional Strategies for Culturally Competent Care: Insights from AAPI Family Dynamics, Intercultural Training Workshops, and Mental Health Interventions

[Kensington]

  • Building Interprofessional Cultural Competency: Using simulation and improvisation to address Intergenerational Issues in Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) families. (Priscila Rodrigues Armijo, MD, University of Nebraska Medical Center; Kenneth Fung (he/him), MD, FRCPC, MSc, DFAPA, DFCPA, Toronto Western Hospital; University of Toronto)

  • The Montérégie intercultural training workshops: Preliminary results from a participatory-based evaluative research (Janique Johnson-Lafleur, PhD, Institut universitaire Sherpa, McGill University; Élise Bourgeois-Guérin, PhD, Université TÉLUQ)

Workshop: Cultural Competency - is there still a need for it?

[Crystal Ballroom]

Kenneth Fung (he/him), MD, FRCPC, MSc, DFAPA, DFCPA, Toronto Western Hospital; University of Toronto
Lisa Andermann, MD, MPhil, University of Toronto
Asma Sleihat, MSW, New Beginnings Clinic, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Norma Hannant, MSW, New Beginnings Clinic, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Hung-Tat (Ted) Lo (he/him), MD, FRCPC, Asian Community Psychiatric Clinic