2023 Virtual Series:
Psychiatry in the 21st Century: Where Might the Future Take Us?
Join us as we explore advances in modern psychiatric treatments straight from the experts. Expect to hear about a range of topics from interventional psychiatry updates and the new TAAR1 receptor to updates on the current state of cannabis and psychedelic research.
This is a 4-part series with sessions falling on the last Thursday of the month between January and April 2023. Sessions will run from 6:30-8 p.m.
Upcoming Sessions:
Back to the Future: Psychedelics in Psychiatry
February 23
Guest Speaker: Fernando Espi Forcen, MD, PhD
Attending Psychiatrist, Massachusetts General Hospital
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Dr. Fernando Espi Forcen has been advanced to Assistant Professor of Psychiatry based on clinical innovations in psychedelics. He graduated from medical school in his hometown at the University of Murcia, Spain. At the same university he read a PhD on the history of mental health in the Middle Ages and early moderl period. Due to the number of publications resulting from this work he was awarded the best PhD award in Health Science at the same university. Fernando came to the United States to train in general psychiatry at MetroHealth Medical Center Cleveland, child psychiatry at the University of Chicago and psycho-oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering. He worked at Rush University in Chicago for five years where he was awarded teacher of the year at the residency program three times. Following his departure from Rush the teaching award was renamed Dr. Espi residency teaching award. At MGH, Fernando has been nominated to the Borus teaching award two consecutive times and has been granted the clinical mentor award at the residency program this year. Fernando has presented at many major psychiatric conferences nationally and internationally and has published over 35 peer reviewed, 16 non peer reviewed articles, 6 book chapters, and 2 books in different areas of psychiatry like psychedelics, history of psychiatry, akathisia, catatonia, psycho-oncology, media and cinema. He is a reviewer for 19 scientific journals and an editor for 3 journals. He founded the journal of humanistic psychiatry and the podcast el último humanista with 20,000 followers.
TAAR1: Science Behind a Potential New TAARget for Schizophrenia
March 30
Guest Speaker: LaGenia Bailey, PharmD
Current State of Cannabis in Psychiatry
April 27
Guest Speaker: Jesse D. Hinckley, MD, PhD
Past Sessions:
Advances in Therapeutic Neuromodulation - January 26
Guest Speakers: Jeffrey I. Bennett, MD, LFAPA and Philip G. Janicak, MD
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