Advocacy Skills for Psychiatric Physicians: Leading Change in the Practice of Medicine

Wednesday, November 6, 2024

8:00 AM – 12:00 PM EST

Location: Brickell

Lead Speaker(s)

Kristin Kroeger

Chief of Advocacy, Policy and Practice Advancement
American Psychiatry Association, District of Columbia
Kristin Kroeger

Chief of Advocacy, Policy and Practice Advancement
American Psychiatry Association, District of Columbia
Michael J. Peterson, MD, PhD, FACLP, DFAPA (he/him/his)

Professor; Director of Hospital Psychiatric Services; Residency Training Director
University of Wisconsin
Madison, Wisconsin
Michael J. Peterson, MD, PhD, FACLP, DFAPA (he/him/his)

Professor; Director of Hospital Psychiatric Services; Residency Training Director
University of Wisconsin
Madison, Wisconsin
L. Lee Tynes, MD, PhD, FACLP

Vice Chair of Psychiatry
Tulane University Dept. of Psychiatry
New Orleans, Louisiana
L. Lee Tynes, MD, PhD, FACLP

Vice Chair of Psychiatry
Tulane University Dept. of Psychiatry
New Orleans, Louisiana

Speaker(s)

Madeleine A. Becker, MD, FACLP (she/her/hers)

Director, Graduate Medical Education, Director Integrative Medicine Consultation Service.
Marcus Institute of Integrative Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Madeleine A. Becker, MD, FACLP (she/her/hers)

Director, Graduate Medical Education, Director Integrative Medicine Consultation Service.
Marcus Institute of Integrative Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Rebecca Brendel, MD, JD, FACLP, DFAPA (she/her/hers)

Director, Center for Bioethics
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts
Rebecca Brendel, MD, JD, FACLP, DFAPA (she/her/hers)

Director, Center for Bioethics
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts
Kenneth M. Certa, MD DLFAPA

Clinical Professor
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Kenneth M. Certa, MD DLFAPA

Clinical Professor
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Fiona Fonseca, MBBChBAO MS

Chief Resident (PGY4)
St. Mary Mercy Hospital, Livonia MI
Livonia, Michigan
Fiona Fonseca, MBBChBAO MS

Chief Resident (PGY4)
St. Mary Mercy Hospital, Livonia MI
Livonia, Michigan
Patrice Harris, MD, MA

American Medical Association
Chicago, IL
Patrice Harris, MD, MA

American Medical Association
Chicago, IL
Anna D. Ratzliff, MD, PhD

Professor
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington
Anna D. Ratzliff, MD, PhD

Professor
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington
Myo Thwin Myint, MD, DFAACAP, DFAPA, FAAP (he/him/his)

Fellowship and Residency Programs Director
Tulane School of Medicine
Myo Thwin Myint, MD, DFAACAP, DFAPA, FAAP (he/him/his)

Fellowship and Residency Programs Director
Tulane School of Medicine
Ramaswamy Viswanathan, MD, DrMedSc, FACLP

Professor and Interim Chair, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
State University of New York Downstate Health Sciences University
Brooklyn, New York
Ramaswamy Viswanathan, MD, DrMedSc, FACLP

Professor and Interim Chair, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
State University of New York Downstate Health Sciences University
Brooklyn, New York

Consultation-Liaison psychiatrists are involved daily in a wide range of activities that can ‎be defined broadly as advocacy. The interest of physicians in participating in advocacy ‎has grown, and engagement in advocacy early in physician training and practice has ‎increased – including in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry. This inaugural advocacy skills ‎course aims to broadly define advocacy, and through the experience and expertise of the ‎speakers, present an array of ways to engage in advocacy. Participants will learn about ‎ACLP activities affiliated with organized medicine activities at the American Medical ‎Association (AMA) and the American Psychiatric Association (APA), and how individual ‎ACLP members can be more aware and engaged. Participants will engage with ‎speakers in learning and discussing strategies for engagement at national, state, and ‎organization-level advocacy with ACLP leaders. ‎

Learning Objectives:

‎1.‎ Describe the range of advocacy activities, from individual, organizational, ‎regional, and national approaches‎
‎2.‎ As an ACLP member, recognize Academy connections to other organized ‎medicine associations, particularly the American Medical Association (AMA) and ‎American Psychiatric Association (APA). ‎
‎3.‎ Identify strategies to contact local, regional, or national leaders to advocate for ‎change.‎