Film Discussion: Rustin; AGLP Celebrates MLK Birthday 

PREVIEW: San Francisco: American LGBTQ+ Mecca
AGLP at the APA annual meeting 

Recorded Sunday, April 30, 2023, 8:00-9:30pm
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The annual APA meeting is back and live!  It  will be happening in San Francisco, May 19th through May 24th.  In this zoom session, we will provide a preview of upcoming LGBTQ+ activities at the APA. Social and educational activities that AGLP is sponsoring will be discussed, including three trips to LGBTQ museum shows.  We have invited several of the speakers of 30 LGBTQ sessions at the APA Meeting to preview their sessions.  Local gay psychiatrists will be on the zoom session to answer questions about San Francisco.  
This call will be a great way to get oriented to the many options for education and fun  at this year's meeting. Please join us! 

Gene Nakajima, MD works in a community mental health clinic in San Francisco and is co-chair of the Education Committee for AGLP. He is also Vice President of the board of the Bay Area Rainbow Symphony. 

Howard Rubin,MD runs a medical student well being program at UCSF School of Medicine and has a small private practice. He is immediate past president of AGLP.

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Virtual Film Discussion: Free Angela & All Political Prisoners (2013)

Recorded Sunday, February 26, 2023
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Description: Free Angela & All Political Prisoners (2013) Angela Davis joins the Communist Party, protests with the Black Panthers, and becomes a principal spokesperson for the burgeoning prison reform movement. As a result, she finds herself fighting to keep her job, and being thrust into the national media spotlight.  She is characterized by her many detractors as a dangerous subversive menace and by her supporters as a strong leader challenging authority and boldly advocating for “Power to All People.”  On August 7th, 1970, Angela is implicated in the politically motivated kidnapping and murder of a judge in a brazen daylight shootout at the Marin County, CA courthouse. Angela flees, convinced she will not be given a fair trial and is placed on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted list. After a national manhunt she is captured two months later. Charged with murder, kidnapping and conspiracy, Angela is put on trial in one of the most sensational court cases of its time. After a two-year legal battle, an all white jury acquits her on all charges in 1972. 

The film is 101 min long.  Please watch on your own.  It is available on Amazon Prime for $3.99 As well as on iTunes, Google Play and Vudu

https://www.amazon.com/Free-Angela-All-Political-Prisoners/dp/B00EHHOEYK

Discussion Moderators:  Nur-ul-Ein, MBBS is a graduate of CMH Lahore Medical College in Pakistan and moved to the US in 2019 for her residency training at SUNY Downstate University of Health Sciences in Brooklyn. During her time in training, she has been involved in working with the underserved in both a clinical and non-clinical capacity as a co-founder of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion council and she will continue to refine her skills as a clinician and advocate as she pursues a forensic psychiatry fellowship at NYU starting July 2023.   

 

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Video Discussion: Artist Kehinde Wiley discusses his practice. 

Recorded Sunday, February 12, 2023
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Video Link:  (Please watch on your own before our AGLP session)  70 min.  No need to watch last 10 min of Q and A. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57SXWs8N4gU&t=357s

Kehinde Wiley (American, b. 1977) has turned the art of portraiture into an international cultural performance, reordering connections between art and politics, and between power and class, by creating grand portraits of black urban men from around the world with a homoerotic twist.  He is best known for his portraits that render people of color in the traditional settings of Old Master paintings. Wiley’s work brings art history face-to-face with contemporary culture, using the visual rhetoric of the heroic, the powerful, the majestic and the sublime to celebrate Black and Brown people the artist has met throughout the world. 

Obama selected Wiley to become the first African American and first out gay artist to paint an official U.S. Presidential portrait for the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. In 2013, during the APA meeting AGLP organized a docent led tour of an exhibit of his at the Contemporary Jewish Museum.   

Video Discussion Moderators:   

Kenn Ashley, M.D., is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Director of Outpatient C-L Psychiatry at Mount Sinai Beth Israel, as well as the psychiatric liaison to the Mount Sinai Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery Post-Surgical Gender Affirmation Surgery Service. He is a former President of AGLP and is currently addressing intersectional issues around diversity/equity/inclusion (DEI) and Social Justice with the APA at the local, state, and national level and the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry. He has written and presented on mental health issues, often involving HIV, DEI, and social justice.  

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AGLP Movie Discussion: Paris is Burning   

Recorded Sunday, January 22, 2023
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Paris Is Burning is a 1990 documentary film directed by Jennie Livingston. Filmed in the mid-to-late 1980s, it chronicles the ball culture of New York City and the African-American, Latino, gay, and transgender communities involved in it.  This documentary focuses on drag queens living in New York City and their "house" culture, which provides a sense of community and support for the flamboyant and often socially shunned performers. Groups from each house compete in elaborate balls that take cues from the world of fashion. Also touches on issues of racism and poverty, 

 Kenn Ashley, M.D., is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Director of Outpatient C-L Psychiatry atMount Sinai Beth Israel, as well as the psychiatric liaison to the Mount Sinai Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery Post-Surgical Gender Affirmation Surgery Service. He is a former President of AGLP, and currently addressing intersectional issues around diversity/equity/inclusion (DEI) and Social Justice with the APA at the local, state, and national level and the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry. He has written and presented on mental health issues, often involving HIV, DEI, and social justice.

Ronald (Ron) Sutton, M.D., M.S., is originally from Chicago, IL. He graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University Medical School and completed his general adult psychiatry residency at Mount Sinai Beth Israel in New York City.  He is currently a first-year fellow at New York Presbyterian Child and Adolescent program in the community and public psychiatry track.   

In recognition of Martin Luther King Birthday.  

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AGLP Video/Theater Discussion: The Habit of Art by Alan Bennett, National Theater London Production

Recorded Sunday, December 11, 2022
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We are excited to present the play, The Habit of Art for our next AGLP Zoom Creative Arts Discussion. Written in 2009 The Habit of Art  by Alan Bennett, centers on a fictional meeting between poet W. H. Auden and composer Benjamin Britten who is in the process of writing the opera Death in Venice, which is based on the novella by Thomas Mann, Auden's father in law. (Auden married the lesbian daughter of Thomas Mann, Erica Mann, to give her British citizenship because her German citizenship was about to be cancelled due to her anti-Nazi activities).   

The action of the play occurs in 1972, in Auden's rooms at Oxford, between an elderly Auden and Britten. Auden has hired a sex worker, Stuart, but when Humphrey Carpenter -- who will write biographies of both Auden and Britten after their deaths -- arrives to interview him, Auden mistakes him for Stuart.  Britten has been auditioning boys for Death in Venice nearby, and arrives unexpectedly (for their first meeting in 25 years after they fell out over the failure of their opera Paul Bunyan). He wants to discuss his misgivings about the themes of Death in Venice and the light that may cast on his own life.  The play is directed by Nicholas Hytner.  Alan Bennett also wrote the plays/films The History Boys and the Madness of King George.  

This National Theatre Production (two hours)  is available to stream for $9.99 for 3 days at 
The Habit of Art - National Theatre at Home (ntathome.com)
Official Trailer:  The Habit Of Art: Trailer - The Habit of Art - National Theatre at Home (ntathome.com)
Review: The Habit of Art | Alan Bennett | The Guardian
Videos about the production  The Habit Of Art: Clip - The Habit of Art - National Theatre at Home (ntathome.com)
Please watch the play on your own
Please feel free to invite friends and members of your household to the discussion. 

This year in particular, we are interested in focusing on gay composer  Benjamin Britten because during the upcoming APA meeting in San Francisco, the SF Symphony and chorus will be performing his War Requiem led by gay conductor Philippe Jordan, music director of the Vienna State Opera with Ian Bostridge, tenor.     Benjamin Britten's War Requiem | 2022/23 Concerts at SF Symphony  May 18 (Th), 19 (Fr), 20 (Sa) There should be $25 rush tickets available on the concert day. Call  for details on the day of performance (415) 503-5577.  Drs. Gene Nakajima, Howard Rubin, and Petros Levounis will be presenting an APA session on this stunning piece of music and  AGLP will organize a group outing to hear it on Saturday May 20th.  War Requiem | Full Movie | Flick Vault - YouTube text to follow along War Requiem: The complete text - Classic FM

Video/Theater  Discussion Co-Moderators: 
(If you are interested in moderating, please contact Gene Nakajima, MD at gnakajima@aglp.org )

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No sessions Sundays Dec 25 and Jan 1.   

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When Love Hurts: Intimate Partner Violence in Transgender Communities

Recorded Sunday, November 20, 2022
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Research is scarce for intimate partner violence within the trans community particularly for prevention and screening. Their current project seeks to understand the frequency and type of abuse experienced and how it correlates to a person's gender affirmation journey.

Speaker: Maya Smith (they/them) is a fourth-year medical student at the University of Michigan.

Co Moderator: Chelsea Cosner, MD (they/them) is a current first year child and adolescent psychiatry fellow at the University of Maryland/Sheppard Pratt in Baltimore, MD. They completed their adult residency at University of Maryland/Sheppard Pratt psychiatry program and medical school at Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine in Miami, FL. Their interests include working with transgender and gender diverse youth and expanding mentorship for transgender and gender diverse medical trainees.

If you would like to be a co-moderator for this session please contact Gene Nakajima, MD at Gnakajima@aglp.org

This session is in recognition of Transgender Day of Remembrance

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(Cyber)Bullying in LGBTQ Youth

Recorded Sunday, November 6, 2022
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Cyberbullying is rampant internationally in adolescents. The consequences of cyberbullying to children and adolescents will be discussed, including its link to depression and suicide in LGBTQA youth.  The use of social media as a tool for information and connection in LGBTQA youth will be discussed as well as the current concern with cyberbullying and youths use of media as ‘a cry for help’ when suicidal. Ways to assist parents, clinicians and school personnel in identifying victims of cyberbullying will be discussed as will educational tools to assist with combating cyberbullying in our communities. Two clinical vignettes will be presented and an open discussion with audience participation will follow presentation of these  clinical case.

Dr. Gabrielle Shapiro is a child, adolescent and adult psychiatrist who is a Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She was a faculty member at UC San Diego for over 15 years, trained at UCI and UCSD. She is presently the Secretary of the APA Foundation Board, former Chair of The APA Council on Children, Adolescents and Their Families, former President of Calaacap and the San Diego Council on Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; she serves on the AACAP PAC, APA- PAC, NYCMS, NYCPS and NYCCAP Boards and has been an Advocate for LGBTQI+ youth and immigrants/human rights for over 20 years. She is a bilingual Spanish speaking community psychiatrist working in Harlem in the Bronx and formerly in border areas and Indian Reservations in California, focused on serving BIPOC children and their families. She is a champion of improving our workforce shortage through use of collaborative care.

Co-Moderator:  Dr. German Velez attended medical school in Bogota, Colombia where he served as a public policy advisor for the city on the topic of Sexual Diversity.  He is currently a third-year resident at Boston University Medical Center. In his passion for the mental health of youth, Dr. Velez has focused his research on the topics of resilience, systems of care, and health disparities, producing publications on Social Determinants of Child and Adolescent Mental Health and participating in several international youth organizations. Dr. Velez is currently the chair of the APA public psychiatry fellowship, a member of the migration work group of the APA council of the Children, Adolescent and their families, a member ofthe APA presidential workgroup on the Future of psychiatry, and an Attendee of the APA board of trustees.

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AGLP Film Discussion: The Hours,  starring Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, and Nicole Kidman

Recorded Sunday, October 23, 2022
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We recently read the novel The Hours for a recent AGLP zoom session and  now will continue our exploration of the story with a discussion of the film version.

The Hours is an Oscar-winning 2002 film, starring Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore based on the Pulitzer prize winning novel by gay author Michael Cunningham.   The film depicts three generations of women who are in dialogue with the classic novel Mrs. Dalloway, either directly or indirectly. Those women are struggling with their sense of identity and purpose, as well as their sexuality, either as lesbians or bisexuals.  They are all dealing with the question of suicide, either their own or of someone they love. The movie was directed by Stephen Daldry, with a screenplay by David Hare and a score by Philip Glass.  It was nominated for 9 academy awards, and Kidman won for best actress.  

In the first thread of the film, the author Virginia Woolf is writing Mrs. Dalloway itself in 1923 as she was struggling with her own mental illness. In the second, set in 1951, in Los Angeles, Mrs. Brown, the wife of a World War II veteran, who is reading Mrs. Dalloway, is planning her husband's birthday party. In 2001 New York City, in the final narrative thread, Clarissa Vaughan is planning a party to celebrate a major literary award received by her good friend and former lover, a poet, Richard, who is dying of an AIDS. Richard has always fondly referred to her as Mrs. Dalloway.

Please feel free to invite your friends/family  to join our discussion.  
Film can be obtained for streaming at:
Amazon Prime  $3.99 - CLICK HERE     
Youtube video for $2.99 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vF0gPdSeSoI
and several other streaming sites.  

Film review - CLICK HERE   
Opera: The Hours is currently being adapted into an opera by composer Kevin Puts, which will be performed Nov 22-Dec 15 at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.  It will be streamed in HD at movie theaters around the world on Sat., Dec. 10th and Wed. Dec. 14th.  Metropolitan Opera | The Hours (metopera.org)

Book Discussion Leaders:  Howard Rubin, MD, is immediate Past-President of AGLP. He is director of the medical student wellbeing program at UCSF School of Medicine, has a private practice in San Francisco, and a masters in creative writing (MFA) from San Francisco State University.

Tamara Murphy, MD, is entering a fellowship in Neuropsychiatry at Case Western University, in Cleveland, Ohio this fall. While a psychiatry resident at Marshall University, she taught lectures on LGBT Mental Health and Transgender Mental Health for residents and medical students. She is a proud member of the AGLP, a mother, an avid knitter, and an aspiring writer who hopes to focus on academic psychiatry when her training is finally complete. 

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Colours of Istanbul: Turkish Queer Identities from the Ottoman Empire to the Current Day

Recorded Sunday, October 2, 2022
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Did you know that the Turkish LGBTQIA+ community has developed its own distinct language? To exist and thrive in conservative public spaces without drawing undue attention to ourselves, we have our own secret code! During our talk, we will crack that code as we present an overview of  Turkey's rich and colorful LGBTQIA + culture and history. We will also focus on the challenging political situation we are facing today with the conservative government. We will conduct this session interactively to facilitate the exchange of intercultural experiences.

Efe Sarı, MS4, is a student attending Acibadem University, Turkey. As a member of the AGLP medical student committee, Efe is looking forward to keep his contact with AGLP and pursue a psychiatry residency in the USA. He is interested in molecular psychiatry and animal research, also involved in activist groups and associations to keep the fire for equality burning in the streets.

Nevin Durdu, MS4, is attending Acibadem University in Istanbul and is a student member of AGLP. She is involved in many streets and campus activist groups fighting for LGBTQIA+, women, and animal rights in her free time. She wants to focus on improving the mental health of minority groups after finishing medical faculty. The talk will describe how Yale's Youth Equity Science/YES Project works to amend stigma-related mental health inequities among LGBT youth. YES promotes LGBT youth mental health in the U.S. and internationally by applying public health science in the service of human rights principles to amend mental health disparities. 

Moderator:  Dr. Sinan Düzyürek was born in 1964 in Eskişehir, Turkey. Upon graduating summa cum laude from Hacettepe Faculty (School) of Medicine, he completed his residency in psychiatry first in Turkey and then in the US.  Following a fellowship, he joined the clinical faculty at the George Washington Uni. school of medicine, department of psychiatry and started a private outpatient practice in DC. Over the years he worked with LGBTQ patients in various capacities and participated in teaching activities and gave lectures and ran workshops about LGBTQ issues in various international and Turkish professional meetings.  

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A Health Justice Approach to Amending LGBTQ Youth Mental Health Inequities: Past accomplishments & current challenges

Recorded Sunday, September 11, 2022
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The talk will describe how Yale's Youth Equity Science/YES Project works to amend stigma-related mental health inequities among LGBT youth. YES promotes LGBT youth mental health in the U.S. and internationally by applying public health science in the service of human rights principles to amend mental health disparities. 

Stewart Adelson, M.D., is a Clinical Associate Professor in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Cornell and Adjunct at Columbia Psychiatry in Gender, Sexuality and Health. He is also a Senior Visiting Fellow at Yale Law School, where he is the founding Director of the Youth Equity Science/YES Project. Dr. Adelson is recipient of the AACAP's Presidential Scholar Award, Rieger Service Award for Program Excellence, NYCCAP’s Hulse Award, and Serves on the Advisory Committee of the global LGBT Rights program of Human Rights Watch.

 

Moderators: Flavio Casoy, MD,  is a psychiatrist in New York and currently works as the Medical Director for Special Projects at the NYS Office of Mental Health. He specializes in mental health systems and mental health policy, including ensuring access to quality care for LGBT patients enrolled in the public mental health system 

Lorraine Lothwell, M.D. (she/her/hers) is a Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist. She has worked at the NYU Student Health Center on the Gender Team, seeing transgender and gender-nonconforming students in need of psychiatric care. Prior to this, she was Medical Director at the Harlem Hospital Child & Adolescent Psychiatry outpatient clinic.  She completed her residency at New York State Psychiatric Institute/Columbia University, and her child psychiatry fellowship at NYU. Currently, Lorraine is in her first year of psychoanalytic training at Columbia, and she has a private practice in NYC.

Joanne Ahola, M.D., P.C., is a psychiatrist in New York. She is medical director of the Weill Cornell Center for Human Rights, which trains medical students to perform asylum evaluations. She has been a member of PHR’s Asylum Network since 1999. She received her medical degree from Stony Brook University School of Medicine and has been in practice for more than 20 years. Dr. Ahola serves as Medical Director of Research Institute Without Walls, an NGO researching and training on issues related to LGBTI asylum seekers. She has published on the mental health challenges of LGBTI asylum seekers with Dr. Ariel Shidlo, and together they have created a scale for assessing sexual orientation and gender identity in LGBT refugees.

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Film Discussion: Firebird

Recorded Sunday, August 28, 2022
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Based on a true story during the Cold War, Firebird follows a handsome, soulful young soldier who embarks on a clandestine romantic affair with a charismatic fighter pilot on an Air Force Base in occupied Estonia at the height of 1970’s Communist rule.

Online streaming options
Film length: 1h 47m.  This film is available to stream through multiple providers.  YouTube, Apple TV, Amazon Prime Video, Google Play Movies, and Vudu each offer rental streaming for the price of $5.99.

Link to the trailer: Firebird trailer

Review: tinyurl.com/firebirdreview2

 

Moderators: Andy Parsley, MS4, is a student attending NYITCOM who will be specializing in psychiatry, upon graduation.  As a member of the AGLP student committee, Andy is avid to remain involved with our organization throughout his career.  He aims to train and practice in Tennessee, Texas, or Florida.

Alex Hunter, MS4, is also a student attending NYITCOM.  He is a native Arkansan who enjoys spending time with his family and exploring outdoors.  His significant other and he hope to return from residency to practice in rural Arkansas.

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Zoom Training: Utilizing, Capturing, and Moving the Needle with Social Media

Recorded Sunday, August 14, 2022
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This session will cover how AGLP and its members  can better utilize social media to grow their reach and how to use it as an effective tool to communicate AGLP’s priorities, events, mission, and voice. The session will also cover how AGLP can leverage their members to grow their social media presence.

Presenter:  Luke Waldron has been with the APA for just about 3 years. He is the Senior Social Media Manager, overseeing the APA’s social media presence which has around 970k followers. He has been working professionally in social media for 9 years with the last 7 for mental health associations. When he’s not working, he is spending time going on hikes with his two dogs around the Washington, D.C. area.

Moderator: Khadija "Kay" Hassan, (she/her) is a MS2 at UAG (Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara). She obtained her MSc. in Health Promotion from Mississippi State University and is a registered nurse. Her goal is to enter a combined Psychiatry-Internal Medicine residency.

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Zoom Discussion: 2023 APA Meeting: San Francisco Here We Come!   
How to submit winning presentations and advanced planning for social events.  

Recorded Sunday, August 7, 2022
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This is an opportunity to meet informally to learn how the annual meeting works and to learn more about the educational content of the meeting, including how to develop and submit presentations for possible inclusion in the annual meeting program. AGLP is spearheading the assembly of sessions (90 min for up to 3 speakers)  for the annual APA meeting (San Francisco, May 19-23).  An important aim of AGLP is to educate psychiatrists who are seeking better exposure to LGBTQ+ mental health topics, which has a direct impact on the quality of care that LGBTQ+ patients receive.  San Francisco usually has great attendence for LGBTQ psychiatrists.  If possible, we will try to group proposals that would work well together in a session. We will also discuss other advanced planning issues such as social events including a trip to the wine country after the conference. 

Moderators:  Gene Nakajima, MD  is a the co-chair of the Education Committee for AGLP and has helped organize AGLP members for several years to submit proposals for conferences for both the APA annual meeting and the Mental Health Services meeting as well as for the World Psychiatric Congress, the European Psychiatric Congress, the DGPPN Congress (German Psychiatric Association), Nordic Psychiatric Association, and the Royal College of Psychiatrists. 

Michael Myers, MD is a Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University in Brooklyn, NY. He has served as a member of (or Consultant to the Scientific Program Committee of APA since 2007. 

Eric Williams, MD is the Associate Dean for Student Affairs and Associate Professor of Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Science at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine. He is the APA Scientific Program Committee Chair for the 2023 APA Annual meeting.

Presenters at the APA conference must register for the conference. AGLP does not provide funding to help with attending the conference although there is a limited travel fund for members who are medical students. 

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Unpacking LGBTQ representation in Unpacking (2021)

Recorded Sunday, July 31, 2022
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In this media review session, we will be "unpacking" the representations, and normalization of queer identities in the multiple international, and Australian award-winning game Unpacking. This block-fitting decorative puzzle game allows you to intimately follow the main character of the game as they transition through eight house moves, and allows you to subtly discover their intersecting identities. 

For more information regarding the game, and how to access it on PC, switch and Xbox One, please visit: https://www.unpackinggame.com/

Chaden Noureddine (she/her/hers) is a psychiatry intern at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Beth Israel. She is the interim AGLP treasurer, and Resident and Fellows Committee co-chair. She is passionate about digital psychiatry, LGBTQIA+ mental health, and queer representation in media, especially in video games. In her free time, she enjoys digital arts, brewing coffee, playing AAA and indie title video games, and exploring NYC eateries.

Co Moderators: Danielle "Dani" Espinoza, BA (she/they) is a rising fourth-year medical student at Albert Einstein College of Medicine excited to apply to Psychiatry this fall! She was born and raised in New York to her Peruvian immigrant parents and is passionate about addressing minority mental health needs and disparities. Growing up her she bonded a great deal with her older brother through their shared love of video games and has found that the medium has a unique, interactive approach to storytelling and a special way of connecting people through collaboration and friendly competition. 

Zoe Kartono (she/her) OMS-4 is a fourth year medical student attending University of North Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine. She was president of TCOM’s Psychiatry Club, a member of TCOM’s Pride at UNTHSC organization, and a volunteer for Crisis Text Line. She is interested in child/adolescent psychiatry and forensic psychiatry. In her free time, she enjoys exploring the city with her dog, being a foodie, and playing the guitar.

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Film Discussion: The Death and Life of Marsha P Johnson (2017) 

Recorded Sunday, June 12, 2022 
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Description:  The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson is a 2017 documentary film directed by David France. It chronicles Marsha P. Johnson a prominent Black figure in gay liberation and transgender rights movement in New York City from the 1960s to the 1990s and co-founder of Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries. The film centers on activist Victoria Cruz's investigation into Johnson's death in 1992, which was initially ruled a suicide by police despite suspicious circumstances.

Watch the movie on your own. 1h 45m on Netflix. You can join Netflix for a month (Basic $9.99) and then cancel your subscription.  
Please feel free to invite your social circle to the discussion. 
Trailer:  The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson | Official Trailer [HD] | Netflix - YouTube
Review:   ‘The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson’ Review | Tribeca 2017 – The Hollywood Reporter
In recognition of Juneteenth which is the following week.  

Discussion Moderators:  Terrance Embry, MSCI, is a graduate of Meharry Medical College and current Resident at Yale Department of Psychiatry. He is a member of the APA's Black and LGBTQ Caucuses as well as a member of the AGLP’s BIPOC Committees. 

Terence L. Howard, MS, is graduate from the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University and a  resident at the University of California, San Francisco Adult Psychiatry Residency Training Program. He contributes to AGLP's BIPOC committees, while also retaining professional affiliations with the APA.   

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Book Discussion: Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo   

Recorded Sunday, June 5, 2022
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Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can't remember exactly when the feeling took root—that desire to look, to move closer, to touch. Whenever it started growing, it definitely bloomed the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club. Suddenly everything seemed possible. But America in 1954 is not a safe place for two girls to fall in love, especially not in Chinatown. Red-Scare paranoia threatens everyone, including Chinese Americans like Lily. With deportation looming over her father—despite his hard-won citizenship—Lily and Kath risk everything to let their love see the light of day.  

Malinda Lo is the winner of the National Book Award, the Stonewall Book Award, and the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature. Her debut novel Ash, a Sapphic retelling of Cinderella, was a finalist for the William C. Morris YA Debut Award, the Andre Norton Award for YA Science Fiction and Fantasy, the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award, and the Lambda Literary Award. She writes the biweekly newsletter Lo & Behold on writing and culture, and she can be found on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. Her website is malindalo.com.
Review https://www.glbtrt.ala.org/reviews/book-review-last-night-at-the-telegraph-club-by-malinda-lo/

Book Discussion Leaders:  

Allison Rhodes (she/her) is an MD/MPH candidate at Tufts University School of Medicine and an incoming psychiatry resident at Tufts Medical Center. She serves as the Medical Student Committee Chair of AGLP: The Association of LGBTQ Psychiatrists and as a Board Member of GLMA: Health Professionals Advancing LGBTQ Equality. Allison is half Chinese, and her mother immigrated to the US from Hong Kong in the 60s. She is excited to explore the intersections of her LGBTQ+ identity and her Chinese heritage in this book group. Allison is interested in C/L and geriatric psychiatry and lives in Somerville, MA with her fiancée. 

Chaden Noureddine (she/her/hers) is a fourth-year medical student at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, and an incoming resident at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Beth Israel, starting July of 2022. She immigrated from Lebanon to the United States at 17 years old. She is one of the AGLP Medical Student Committee members. She is eager to learn about the intersectionality of Chinese and LGBTQIA+ identities through this book discussion, and to listen and learn from the group’s shares and experiences. She is passionate about medical education, psychotherapy, and advocacy. In her free time, she enjoys digital arts, brewing coffee, over-analyzing film tropes, and playing video games.

Francis Yang (he/him) is a medical student at Michigan State University College of Human Medicine. He is originally from Los Angeles but grew up overseas in Singapore and Shanghai before returning to the United States for college. He is one of the incoming Medical Student Committee Co-Chairs of the AGLP, a member of the Medical Student Pride Alliance National Leadership Team, and a part of the AMA Medical Student Section Committee on LGBTQ+ Affairs.

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PREVIEW: The Big Easy: AGLP at the New Orleans APA

Recorded Sunday May 15th, 2022
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The annual APA meeting is back and live! After a two-year hiatus, it will be happening in New Orleans next week, May 20 through May 25. In this zoom session, we will provide a preview of upcoming LGBTQ+ activities at the APA in New Orleans. Gene Nakajima, MD, will start by highlighting the LGBTQ+ programming at the APA Meeting. Amir Ahuja, MD, will discuss AGLP activities, both social and educational. Mark Townsend, MD, Doug Alexander, MD, and other New Orleans local arrangement committee members, will talk about the city, make recommendations, and answer any of your questions. This will also be a way to network before the meeting.   

Mark Townsend, MD  Originally from California, Dr. Townsend has been a  Louisiana State University Health Science Center (LSUHSC) faculty member for nearly 30 years, and is George C. Dunn Professor and Executive Vice Chair of the Psychiatry Deptartment. He is a two-time local arrangements chair for AGLP for the APA meeting.   

Amir Ahuja, MD, is Indian American, Director of Psychiatry at the Los Angeles LGBT Center. He is the President of AGLP and the former Vice President of External Affairs for GLMA: Health Professionals Advancing Equality.  He is currently the president of the LGBTQ caucus of the APA.    

Gene Nakajima, MD works in a community mental health clinic in San Francisco and is co-chair of the Education Committee for AGLP. He is also Vice President of the board of the Bay Area Rainbow Symphony.   

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Achieving the Authentic Self: Coming Out and Finding Support among Asian Americans

Featuring two talks, one on South Asians and the other on Chinese for Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

Recorded Sunday May 8, 2022
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Peer Support Group Model Addresses the Mental Health of LGBTQ South Asians
LGBTQ+ South Asians face a diverse array of stressors including depression, loneliness, PTSD, and minority stress. Due to the stigma and inaccessibility of mental health resources, peer support groups developed by community groups have been instrumental in alleviating some of these stressors. This talk will highlight the cultural context of LGBTQ South Asians, their mental health needs, and elucidate the myriad ways that peer support groups help this community.

Lakshman Kalasapudi (he/him) is a second year student at Cooper Medical School. Prior to medical school, he was an advocate in the South Asian community in New York City where he worked on a variety of issues such as older adults services, LGBTQ rights, and grassroots research.

Sexual Orientation Disclosure Among Gay Chinese/American Male Emerging Adults. 
Disclosing one’s sexual minority identity can be challenging for LGBTQ+ Asian Americans because of cultural values lik collectivism and filial piety (i.e., loyalty and obedience to one's parents and elders). This talk will highlight the findings of a qualitative study of gay Chinese/American male emerging adults and present a new, contextual model of sexual orientation disclosure. 

A. Ning Zhou, MD (he/him) is a child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist at the San Francisco Department of Public Health. He also directs the LGBTQ+ Mental Health Area of Distinction for the UCSF Psychiatry Residency Training Program. 

In recognition of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month (May) in the US.  

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Bollywood Film Discussion: Badhaai Do (2022) with special discussion moderator, Professor Dinesh Bhugra, CBE, former president of the World Psychiatric Association

Recorded Sunday, May 1, 2022
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Description: Badhaai Do (transl. Give Felicitations) is a 2022 Indian, Hindi comedy drama film written by Suman Adhikary and Akshat Ghildial and directed by Harshavardhan Kulkarni. It stars Rajkummar Rao and Bhumi Pednekar as a couple in a lavender marriage. Instead of coming out to their families a gay man and a lesbian, they enter into a marriage of convenience to appease their parents. However, chaos soon ensues when the woman's girlfriend comes to live with the unlikely couple.
In recognition of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month (May) in the US.  

Discussion Moderators:  

Fiona Fonseca, MBBChBAO, MS is a PGY-4 chief resident in Psychiatry at St. Mary Mercy Hospital in Livonia, MI, an Indian citizen, and an international medical graduate who completed high school and medical school in Ireland.

Nina Bihani, MD  was born and raised in the Metro Detroit area, completed her undergraduate and medical training at Wayne State University and is now a second-year resident at the Detroit Medical Center.

Professor Dinesh Bhugra, CBE  MA, MSc, MBBS, DSc(Hon), PhD, FRCP,FRCPE, FRCPsych, FFPHM, FRCPsych(Hon), FHKCPsych(Hon), FACPsych(Hon),FAMS(Singapore), FKCL, MPhil,  LMSSA, FAcadME, FRSA, DIFAPA
President, Royal College of Psychiatrists (2008-2011), President, World Psychiatric Association (2014-2017), President , British Medical Association (2018-2019), Professor Emeritus of Mental Health and Cultural Diversity, Kings College London

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Imagine…Informed Mental Health Care for the LGBTQ Community: Process and Impact of Creating a LGBTQ Mental Health Training Clinic

Recorded Sunday, April 17, 2022
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Description:  We will discuss the process of developing a residency training clinic focused on LGBTQ mental health care, the wider impact of creating such a clinic, and the experience of trainees in the clinic.

Robert D. Davies, MD (he/him) – Dr. Davies is a Professor and Vice Chair of Education in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado SOM, where he is also the Program Director of the Psychiatry Residency Training Program. He is the Co-founder and Medical Director of the CU Medicine LGBTQ “Imagine” Clinic and the Co-founder of the UCHealth Integrated Transgender Program.

Kyle Baird, DO (he/him) – Dr. Baird is a PGY-4 in the Psychiatry Residency Training Program at the University of Colorado SOM. This July, he will be joining the faculty of the Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado SOM as the Associate Program Director of the Psychiatry Residency Training Program.

Discussion Moderator:  Dr. Seth Rosenblatt is a psychiatrist who currently serves as medical director for behavioral health at Total Health Care in Baltimore, a federally qualified health center. 

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Educational Session: Why Black Feminist Theory Still Matters

Recorded Sunday, March 20th, 2022
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Description: Black feminist theories arose from the failure of mainstream feminist organizations to address issues relevant to the lives of BIPOC people. Black feminist thought is inclusive of the issues facing LGBTQIA+ communities. This interactive discussion will address the ways in which a Black feminist analysis can address the concerns of Queer people and promote wellness and community building.

Presenter: Khadija "Kay" Hassan, (she/her) is a MS2 at UAG (Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara). She obtained her MSc. in Health Promotion from Mississippi State University and is a registered nurse. Her goal is to enter a combined Psychiatry-Internal Medicine residency.

Discussion Moderators: Cheryl D. Wills, M.D., DFAPA,  is a general, child and forensic psychiatrist, is Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University,  serves on the APA Board of Trustees, and chaired its APA Presidential Task Force on Structural Racism. She has coauthored treatment guidelines with the APA Guideline Writing Group and speaks nationally and internationally about mental health, culture and law. Amir Ahuja, MD, is Indian American, Director of Psychiatry at the Los Angeles LGBT Center. He is the President of AGLP and the former Vice President of External Affairs for GLMA: Health Professionals Advancing Equality.  He is currently the president of the LGBTQ caucus of the APA.    

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Film Discussion: Rafiki (2018) directed by Wanuri Kahiu

Recorded Sunday, March 13th, 2022
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Description : Rafiki is a 2018 Kenyan drama film directed by Wanuri Kahiu. Starring Samantha Mugatsia and Sheila Munyiva, the film tells the story of the romance between two young women, Kena and Ziki, amidst family and political pressures around LGBT rights in Kenya.

Discussion Moderators : Blessing Oyeniyi, MD, is a Nigerian American PGY-4 Chief Resident in the Adult Psychiatry program at The University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School where she will be completing an Addiction Psychiatry residency next year. Her interests include improving diversity and inclusion in medicine.

Natalie Umesi, MD, MBA, is a 1st year adult psychiatry resident in New York City. Her main areas of interest are addiction and cultural psychiatry. When Natalie is not volunteering for SMART Recovery NYC in her spare time, she enjoys thoughtful discussion about how challenging life experiences are portrayed through film.

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Film/TV Series Discussion:
Harlem (2021) | Created by Tracy Y. Oliver (Episode 4)

Recorded Sunday, March 6, 2022
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Description: From writer Tracy Oliver (Girls Trip), this comedy follows a group of stylish & ambitious black girlfriends in Harlem NYC: a rising star professor struggling to make space for her love life; a savvy tech entrepreneur always dating someone new; a no-filter singer; and a hopeless romantic fashion designer. Together, they level up into the next phase of their careers, relationships & big city dreams.

Discussion Moderators: Natalie Umesi, MD, MBA, is a 1st year adult psychiatry resident in New York City. Her main areas of interest are addiction and cultural psychiatry. When Natalie is not volunteering for SMART Recovery NYC in her spare time, she enjoys thoughtful discussion about how challenging life experiences are portrayed through film.

C. Freeman, MD, MBA, FAPA, is a Los Angeles based board certified psychiatrist who is committed to creating healthier lives through delivering health care of the highest quality and providing mental health education to the community. Dr. Freeman is the first and only African American President of the Los Angeles County Medical Association. She is currently the Parliamentarian of the American Psychiatric Association Board of Trustees, a member of the Investment and Oversight Committee, and Area 6 Assembly Rep.

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Queerness is a Black Aesthetic

Recorded Sunday, February 13th, 2022
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Description: Through an observational analysis of how queerness is provisionally accepted and rejected in black and non-black spaces, I discuss how queerness and blackness are intertwined. The defining and reification of these two entities as separate under a Eurocentric framework has led to an acrimonious relationship between the two. I explore the ways in which this tension is managed by individuals, plays out on a larger scale, and is affronted in certain spaces.

Presenter: Lukman-Afis Babajide, MD, is currently a Transgender Psychiatry Fellow at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai after completing residency at Rutgers New Jersey School of Medicine in Psychiatry. He has an interest in political organizing and theory which he attempts to incorporate in his practice. Upon completion of fellowship, Dr. Babajide will be moving west to California to work in an outpatient setting with the trans, non-binary, and gender queer populations there.

Moderators: Kenneth Ashley, MD, ACPsych, FACLP, DFAPA, is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He has written and presented on mental health issues at the intersection of HIV, LGBT, diversity, and health equity.

Murad Khan, MD, is a PGY-3 psychiatry resident at Yale. He is currently a Resident Leader of the Human Experience Track of Yale’s Social Justice and Health Equity Curriculum and the Resident Leader of its Psychoanalytic Gatherings Group.

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Orientation about Journal of Gay and Lesbian Mental Health (JGLMH), Chris McIntosh, MD

Recorded Sunday, February 6th, 2022
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Description:  In this zoom session, JGLMH Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Chris McIntosh will provide an orientation to the Journal for new and old members, including how to access your online subscription, included with AGLP membership. He will describe the Journal's peer review process and provide a primer on how to review an academic manuscript, with additional commentary provided by Drs. Kenneth Ashley and Neir Eshel, members of the JGLMH Editorial Board.  Potential authors of articles, particularly residents planning to submit for the Annual Resident Paper Award (deadline March 15th), are encouraged to attend.  We will finish with a brainstorming session about a potential name change for the journal.

Presenters: Christopher McIntosh, MD, is the Editor-in-chief of the Journal of Gay and Lesbian Mental Health which is in its 32nd year of publication. He is an Associate Professor with the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto

Kenneth Ashley, MD, ACPsych, FACLP, DFAPA is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He has both written and presented on mental health issues often at the intersection of HIV, LGBT, diversity, and health equity.

Neir Eshel, MD PhD (he/him/his) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, where he splits his time between treating patients in the LGBTQ+ program and running a small lab focused on addiction and aggression. 

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Video/Theater Discussion: Angels in America A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Millennium Approaches, Part One and Perestroika, Part Two  by Tony Kushner, National Theatre London Production

Recorded January 30th, 2022
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In December, AGLP organized a successful video discussion, focusing on the play Angels in America, Part One.   We decided to have a follow up session to discuss all of Angels in America, Parts One and Two.  We encourage you to come to this session even if you did come to the previous one.   

Description: Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on American Themes (1991) is a two-part play by American playwright Tony Kushner. The work won numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Tony Award for Best Play, and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play. 

Film Discussion Moderators: 

Daniel Parkinson, MD was born in Utah and raised Mormon and did the semi-obligatory 2 year mission (in Montreal) before finishing school at BYU and leaving the church. He left Utah for residency at University of Massachusetts and subsequently moved to Minneapolis where he has worked the past 25 years doing adult inpatient psychiatry. 

Jordan Vajda, MPH, MA, MDiv is a 4th year medical student at The Ohio State University currently applying for residency in psychiatry. He completed his MPH in epidemiology at The Ohio State University this past summer and has an MA in theology from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, CA. He focused his MA thesis on soteriology--the branch of theology dealing with doctrines of salvation--and specialized in the Mormon doctrine on exaltation.

Andy Parsley, MS3 is a native of the Memphis area, where he is currently a medical undergraduate.  With absolute focus on a career in psychiatry, Andy hopes to serve the LGBT population as a resident, attending, and volunteer for years to come.

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Film Discussion: Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin
Zoom Discussion with Special Guest, Walter Naegle, Rustin's Surviving Spouse  

Recorded Sunday, January 23rd, 2022
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Description: Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin is a 2003 American biographical documentary film co-produced and co-directed by Nancy Kates and Bennett Singer (co director of Cures). The documentary tells the story of Bayard Rustin, the African-American civil rights activist, notable for his activism for racial equality, gay rights, socialist issues.  He helped to organize the 1963 March on Washington, the biggest protest America had ever seen.

Special Zoom Guest Walter Naegle [1] is an American artist and photographer who is the surviving partner of American Civil Rights leader Bayard Rustin, and the executive director of the Bayard Rustin Fund,[2]which commemorates Rustin's life, values, and legacy.[3] He will answer questions about Rustin.

Film Discussion Moderator: Richard Dudley, Jr., MD has a private practice in both clinical and forensic psychiatry in New York City. 

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Film Discussion: My Name is Pauli Murray 

Recorded Sunday, January 9th, 2022
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Mary Barber, MD and Dan Hicks MD, former AGLP Presidents, are pleased to lead a discussion of a film about Pauli Murray.  She is an essential and dynamic part of our history, representing a pioneer in civil rights, women's rights, LGBT issues, long before others were speaking out. She was an unsung hero that we all should know about. 

Description: My Name Is Pauli Murray is an 2021 American documentary film, directed by Betsy West and Julie Cohen. It follows the life of lawyer and activist Pauli Murray who was instrumental in arguing that the equal protection clause of the fourteenth amendment outlawed discrimination based on sex.[2]  Murray's influence on Ruth Bader Ginsburg is covered in detail throughout the film. 

Film Discussion Moderators: Dan Hicks, MD  is a retired Clinical Professor of Psychiatry from Medstar Georgetown University and lives in Washington, DC.  He trained at Indiana University Medical Center, and was former President of AGLP.  Over 40 years, he worked inpatient, outpatient, substance abuse, consultation/liaison, partial hospitalization and collaborative care. 

Mary Barber, MD, is past president of AGLP; a public sector psychiatrist for over twenty years; She recently graduated from Union Theological Seminary where she prepared to become an Episcopal priest; She is also a wife and mother.

Curley L. Bonds, MD is the Chief Medical Officer for the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health. He has held clinical leadership positions at Charles R. Drew University (CDU) and the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He holds faculty appointments as Health Sciences Clinical Professor at UCLA and Professor at CDU. 

This session is organized in recognition of MLK's Birthday. 

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Case discussion: LGBTQ youth with complex psychiatric presentations 

Recorded Sunday, December 19, 2021 
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LGBTQ youth care has been an expanding field over the last few years. More youth are coming out and despite advancements in societies, there are ongoing unique challenges in mental healthcare of these young people. This presentation is focused on increasing skills by clinical discussion about two hypothetical cases of young LGBTQ youth. The presenters will present the cases and discuss the presentation and management within the panel. The audiences are encouraged to participate by comments, questions and discussions. 

Brandon Johnson, MD: Brandon Johnson is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai where he is the medical director of a day treatment school called CARES and the associate program director of the child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship. Dr. Johnson is an expert in working with LGBTQ+ youth, serves on the sexual orientation and gender identity issues committee at AACAP, and has written and presented numerous times on topics related to mental health of LGBTQ+ youth. Dr. Johnson has developed a particular interest in LGBTQ+ mental health in school settings through his work at the CARES program. Disclosures: None

Jonathon Wanta, MD: Jonathon Wanta is a first year fellow in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago. He is the Trainee Member of AACAP's Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Issues Committee and also serves on the Board of Pride CAPA. He has presented at AACAP on gender and sexuality issues and has numerous publications in the field. 
Disclosures: None

Shervin Shadianloo, MD: Shervin is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell where he has been the lead psychiatrist in two transgender programs at LIJ Hospital and Friedman Program at Lenox Hill Hospital where he currently works. He is also Medical Director of the BALANCE eating disorder program and has his private practice. He is a member of multiple committees at APA and AACAP and is the President elect for Pride CAPA. Disclosure: None 

Cosponsored by Pride CAPA (www.pridecapa.org) and AACAP’s SOGIIC (American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry) (Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Issues Committee) and AGLP: The Association of LGBTQ Psychiatrists (www.aglp.org)

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Technological Addictions: The New Frontier of Addiction Medicine from Loot Boxes to Teledildonics 

Recorded Sunday, December 12, 2021
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Addiction to video games, cybersex, internet gambling, texting and emailing, e-baying and online auctions, and other technologies can be every bit as addictive as substances leading to the loss of jobs, loved ones, and happiness. This session will focus on the addictive potential of technology and its relation to LGBTQ+ mental health of 2021. 

Petros Levounis, MD, MA, serves as professor and chair of the Department of Psychiatry and associate dean for professional development at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. Dr. Levounis has published 14 books including the self-help paperback “Sober Siblings: How to Help Your Alcoholic Brother or Sister—and Not Lose Yourself,” the textbook of “Substance Dependence and Co-Occurring Psychiatric Disorders,” the pocket guide to “LGBTQ Mental Health: The Spectrum of Gender and Sexuality,” and the first book on “Technological Addictions.” 

Information about the book very recently published by APA press  https://www.appi.org/Products/Addiction-Psychiatry/Technological-Addictions

Moderators: Philip Wong, MD is a psychiatry resident at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. Prior to receiving his medical education at Rutgers NJMS, he studied psychology and philosophy at New York University. Chun Tong, MD is the chief resident of Rutgers New Jersey Medical School Psychiatry Residency program. He is also a member of AAAP (American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry), APA (American Psychiatric Association), AGLP, and was recently accepted into the Mount Sinai West Addiction Psychiatry fellowship. 

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AGLP Video/Theater Discussion: Angels in America A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Millennium Approaches, Part one  by Tony Kusher, National Theater London Production

Recorded Sunday, December 5, 2021 
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Description: Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia (1991) is a two-part play by American playwright Tony Kushner. The work won numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Tony Award for Best Play, and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play. 

This session is in recognition of World AIDS Day    

Film Discussion Moderators: 

Bill Gilmer, MD is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, and Director of Psychiatric Research and Academic Development at Edward Hines, Jr VA Hospital.  

Daniel Parkinson, MD was born in Utah and raised Mormon and did the semi-obligatory 2 year mission (in Montreal) before finishing school at BYU and leaving the church. He left Utah for residency at University of Massachusetts and subsequently moved to Minneapolis where he has worked the past 25 years doing adult inpatient psychiatry. 

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How Medical Students, Residents and Mental Health Professionals Can Assist LGBTI Asylum Seekers in 2021

Recorded Sunday, November 14, 2021  
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Join seasoned asylum evaluator Joanne Ahola and asylee health professional Giorgio Falcao to learn about the unique conditions of persecution LGBTI asylum seekers face in their home countries and here in the U.S., strategies of assessment and documentation, the impacts of Title 42, MPP and detention, and how you can be involved, including how to start an asylum clinic in the med school where you attend or teach.

Joanne Ahola, MD has two professional passions: her psychiatric practice in NYC and the mental health evaluation of torture survivors, most especially LGBTI asylum seekers.

Giorgio Falcao BSN, RN, PMHNP candidate (he/him) is and LGBTIQ asylee who has been in the U.S. for eight years. He has a degree in Nursing from CUNY Hostos (where he was valedictorian) and a BSc in Nursing from CUNY School of Professional Studies (summa cum laude.)

Moderators:  Darya Terekhova, MD, PhD and Adriana de Julio, MD. 

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Supporting Intersex Patients: What Psychiatrists and Medical Students Need to Know

Recorded Sunday, October 24, 2021
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Despite growing inclusion of intersex populations in sexual and gender minority health and advocacy, many psychiatrists are unfamiliar with the mental health needs of intersex persons. This talk will introduce psychiatrists and medical students to psychiatric support for patients with intersex traits/differences of sex development and their families. The presenters will ground the discussion of clinical needs and controversies in the historical approach to sex variations, overlaps with LGBTQ populations, and current growth and gaps in intersex mental health research. Finally, the presenters will discuss common psychosocial challenges for patients and their parents by drawing from clinical case examples.

Katharine B Dalke, MD MBE (bioethics) is an assistant professor in the departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health and Humanities at the Penn State College of Medicine. Her work focuses primarily on the behavioral health of persons who are LGBTQI+ or have differences of sex development. She has been recognized for her work with appointment to the Pennsylvania Governor's Commission on LGBTQ Affairs, the Sexual and Gender Minority Research Office's Working Group at NIH, and two consensus committees on LGBTQI+ population research at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 

Miriam Muscarella, MD is a resident psychiatrist in her third year at Stanford University. She is a lead author and founder of www.dsdteens.org, a website for youth with intersex traits/differences of sex development (DSD). She has worked internationally and in the US in research and clinical care for people with intersex traits/differences of sex development; and she has worked extensively in patient advocacy, peer support, and education related to intersex variations for over 15 years.

Moderators:   
Dr Jacques Ambrose is currently the medical director of Columbia University Medical Center’s Faculty Practice, Department of Psychiatry-- specializing in health equity, diversity/equity/inclusion (DEI), and system-level innovation integration.  Balancing business development with clinical medicine, he also previously served as a subspecialist strategy consultant in operations management and user design for mid-sized industries through the Mass General Brigham Connected Health’s Pivot Lab. Clinically, Dr Ambrose completed his psychiatric trainings at Dartmouth and MGH, public health training at the CDC, and has a master's in health management from Harvard University.  

This session is in recognition of Intersex Awareness Day (October 26) , which is the anniversary of intersex activists picketing the American Academy of Pediatrics in 1996 because of their recommendations for early surgical correction of genital difference.

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A quick review of the Bisexual  Chapter by Sarah Noble, DO, and the Transgender chapter by Murat Altinay, MD 

from Pocket Guide to LGBTQ Mental Health edited by Levounis and Yarbrough by APA Publishing

Recorded Sunday, September 19, 2021
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Talks based on chapters from the Pocket Guide to LGBTQ Mental Health edited by Petros Levounis, MD MA, and Eric Yarbrough, MD, by APA Publishing.  https://www.appi.org/Products/Sexuality/Pocket-Guide-to-LGBTQ-Mental-Health  

Psychiatrist's role in taking care of bisexual patients:  In this talk she will discuss a brief history of bisexuality in western history. Then review five of the common misconceptions about bisexual people and then end with some helpful take aways for clinicians.   

Sarah Noble, DO  (Bisexual Chapter)  works at Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia where she is the Medical Director of Outpatient Behavioral Health and is part of the Pride Clinic which specializes in LGBTQ competent care.  She is also the secretary for the AGLP, the national organization for LGBTQ psychiatrists.  

Psychiatrist’s role in taking care of Transgender Patients:  Dr. Altinay will discuss layers of gender identity and expression, and gender dysphoria. He  will then review how to start an initial evaluation of a transgender patient and talk about a psychiatrist’s role in transgender care.     

Murat Altinay, MD (Transgender Chapter)  who has been working with treatment resistant depression (TRD) population since 2007 has had extensive experience in the use of neuromodulation therapies (DBS and TMS). Dr. Altinay's also specializes in LGBT Mental Health and is the co-founder and the co-director of the Cleveland Clinic PRIDE clinic where he primarily focuses on Transgender Mental Health.  

This session is given in recognition of Bisexual Awareness Week September 16-23

Moderators:  Teddy G. Goetz, MD, MS  (he/him or they/them) is a psychiatry resident at the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to earning his M.D. at Columbia, he studied biochemistry and gender studies at Yale, conducting research on a wide spectrum of biologically- and socially-determined aspects of gender-based health disparities, including earning his M.S. developing the first animal model of gender-affirming hormone therapy. His current focuses include mixed-methods research on LGBTQ mental health, as well as narrative medicine and physician advocacy. More about his scholarly and artistic work can be found at teddygoetz.com.

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AGLP Film Discussion: The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Desiree Akhavan

Recorded Sunday, August 29, 2021
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Description  The Miseducation of Cameron Post is a 2018 drama film by Iranian American director Desiree Akhavan and written by Akhavan and Cecilia Frugiuele, based on the 2012 novel by Emily M. Danforth. Native American actor Goodluck plays a Lakota two-spirit young man who along with African American and Maori American actress Lane, are her two friends at the center. 

Watch the  Movie on your own. The movie is 91 min. You must be a member of Amazon Prime to watch the movie for free. If you are not a member, it costs $3.99 to rent.  

Film Discussion Leaders: Natalie Umesi, MD, MBA is a psychiatry resident in New York City. She has an interest in women's mental health, addiction psychiatry, and cultural psychiatry. As an enthusiast of storytelling and analyzing film, Natalie enjoys thoughtful discussion on how challenging life experiences are portrayed through this medium of art. 

Adriana de Julio, MD grew up on the Navajo Nation. She started her career in medicine studying environmental disasters and managing refugee camps. She is a board certified psychiatrist and did a fellowship in Behavioral Neurology / Neuropsychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital. 

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AGLP Book Discussion: Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo

Recorded Sunday, August 22, 2021
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Short 128 page or 2 hours (audiobook) novella. Cleric Chih (non binary) and their companion Almost Brilliant, a talking bird or neixin who has a perfect memory, are tasked with collecting and recording history. They arrive at Thriving Fortune, the former home of the exiled Empress In-Yo, who passed away a year ago. On the glowing banks of Lake Scarlet, they meet Rabbit, an elderly woman who tells them of her life story as a trusted servant to the Empress and of the time the two spent at Thriving Fortune.

Nghi Vo is the author of the acclaimed novellas When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain and The Empress of Salt and Fortune, a Hugo Award and Ignyte Award finalist and the winner of the Crawford Award.

Medical students/residents/fellows:  If you want a free copy of this novel for the book group, please send your mailing address and telephone number to Roy Harker, Executive director of AGLP at rharker@aglp.org     

Book Discussion Leaders:  Faye Chao, MD attended Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia and completed her general psychiatry residency training at Harvard Longwood. She went on to an addiction psychiatry fellowship at NYU, and was the unit chief of the inpatient addiction service at the Addiction Institute of Mount Sinai before joining the VA.

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AGLP Film Discussion: Uncle Frank by Alan Ball

Recorded Sunday, August 8, 2021 
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Description  Uncle Frank is a 2020 American comedy-drama film written, directed, and co-produced by Alan Ball. The film stars Paul Bettany. Sophia Lillis, and Lebanese actor Peter Macdissi. Set in the 1970s, Uncle Frank is a road movie about a gay man who confronts his past.   Themes include trauma, being closeted, having internalized homophobia, parental abandonment for being gay and using alcohol to “cope”. 

Film Discussion Leaders: Dr. Sami Khalifé is a psychiatrist and a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. He graduated from the Lebanese University Faculty of Medicine in 2002 and completed a residency in Psychiatry at the Cleveland Clinic followed by a fellowship in Mood Disorders at the National Institute of Mental Health. Dr. Khalifé is the co-author of the Handbook of AIDS Psychiatry. 

Dr. Lana Elhalabi is a psychiatrist and a psychoanalysis candidate, in private practice in Providence, Rhode Island.  She graduated from the American University of Beirut Medical Center in 2003 and completed a post-doc fellowship in psychopharmacology at UCSF in 2005.  

Dr. Norm Hartstein is a retired-psychiatrist residing in West Hollywood.  He graduated from Albert Einstein and completed residency and child fellowship at UCLA-NPI--where he served on the clinical faculty for many years.  He attended his first APA meeting in 1973 and got involved with the AGLP before it had that name in the early 1980's. 

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AGLP Zoom Discussion:  Become part of the solution.  
Learn about Opportunities In Organized Psychiatry: From District Branches to the APA and Beyond

Meeting with APA President-Elect Rebecca Brendel, MD, JD

Recorded Sunday, August 1, 2021
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Description:  Volunteering for our psychiatric and medical organizations presents many opportunities to foster and nurture collegiality, advance our learning, and contribute to leadership on critical issues for our profession.  In this session, Dr. Brendel will present an overview of the structure of APA, review the council and committee appointment process for 2022 which is currently underway, and highlight opportunities for member engagement in organized psychiatry and medicine.

Rebecca Weintraub Brendel MD, JD is President-Elect of the American Psychiatric Association.  Dr. Brendel is Director of the Master of Bioethics Program and Associate Director of the Center for Bioethics at Harvard Medical School.

Moderators:  Amir Ahuja, MD, is Indian American, Director of Psychiatry at the Los Angeles LGBT Center. He is the President of AGLP and the former Vice President of External Affairs for GLMA: Health Professionals Advancing Equality.  He is currently the president of the LGBTQ caucus of the APA.    

Information about how to apply for a presidential appointment to an APA Component. Applications are due on September 1.   https://www.psychiatry.org/about-apa/meet-our-organization/councils

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AGLP Zoom Discussion: 2022 APA Meeting: New Orleans Here We Come! Meeting with members of APA scientific program committee on how to submit winning presentations

Recorded Sunday, July 25, 2021
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This is unique opportunity to meet informally with Cathy Crone, MD,  Scientific Program Committee (SPC) Chair and Eric Williams, MD, SPC Vice Chair, to learn how the annual meeting works and to learn more about the educational content of the meeting, including how to develop and submit presentations for possible inclusion in the annual meeting program.  

Moderator:  David R Beckert MD, is an assistant professor at the Medical University of South Carolina, located in Charleston where he completed his psychiatry residency training.

Please contact us at  conference@aglp.org at if you are interested in presenting in a session.  Please send us your contact information (email and cell phone) the title and a brief 75 word description of the talk(s).  

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AGLP Virtual Film Discussion: Country People, a short directed by AGLP member David Bobrow, MD  

Sunday, July 18, 2021
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Description:   Country People , a 14-minute film, is a love letter to lesbian and gay literature. It is about a writer who finds pride and its mysteries in small town life. But the deepest secrets we hold can still shock the heart.

David Bobrow, MD  is a psychiatrist who works with foster youth and at risk teens at residential treatment centers and a children's shelter in San Diego.    He has won screenwriting awards at Oaxaca Film Fest, Rome Internacional Cinefest, and Cannes Screenplay Contest.

Richard Hall is remembered as a pioneer of LGBT fiction who died during the AIDS Epidemic. His courageous stories have been polished over until they glow with depth and wisdom.  His books have been out of print. Attached is a pdf of the short story. (13 pages) 

Moderators:
Marny Hall, PhD  is the sister of Richard Hall. She is a lesbian psychotherapist and author, and has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area since the late 1960s. Among her publications are The Lesbian Love Companion, Queer Blues (coauthored with Kimeron Hardin), and Sexualities 

Dan Hicks, MD is a past president of AGLP and served on the APA LGBT committee.   Originally a Hoosier, he has worked at Indiana University, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, and most recently as Clinical Professor from Medstar Georgetown University Hospital.

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Update on LGBTQ+ Policy and How Psychiatrists Can Get Involved

Recorded Sunday, July 11, 2021

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Talk # 1: "Decoupling Mental Health Crises from Policing - Psychiatry's Role and LGBTQ+ Implications"

Dr. Rafla-Yuan will review how the recent congressional mandate for a new 988 number for mental health crises provides an opportunity for decoupling crisis response from policing. He will also discuss the role of state level advocacy for this and other LGBTQIA+ advocacy issues.

Talk # 2 "Religious LIberty Laws and LGBTQ+ People

The Supreme Court decriminalized private consenting same sex behavior in 2003 and in 2015 allowed gay marriage under the principle that these liberties are protected under t the 14th Amendment’s Due Process Clause. The reaction of religious conservatives was to advocate, that forcing individuals to go against their religious principles violates their 1st Amendment rights protecting freedom of religion. That reaction is gaining ground. On 6/17/21 the Court ruled that a Philadelphia Catholic Social Services agency was within its rights to refuse to place children with same sex couples because of religious objections. Dr. Scasta’s discussion will focus on what needs to be done to abort this trend. 

Talk # 3:  "Transgender Policy Discussion - Bathroom Bills and Athletic Inclusion"

Dr. Louik will discuss the current issues surrounding Transgender policy, as there have been recent changes. In particular, much has been made of Transgender inclusion in organized sports, and we have seen this take shape throughout the USA as well as abroad, most notably in the Olympics. In addition, the Supreme Court recently decided not to take up the “Bathroom Bill” lawsuit challenge, which has repercussions for the plaintiff in this case, as well as for future cases. 

Moderator: Amir Ahuja, MD, is Indian American, Director of Psychiatry at the Los Angeles LGBT Center. He is the President of AGLP and the former Vice President of External Affairs for GLMA: Health Professionals Advancing Equality.  

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2021 Journal of Gay and Lesbian Mental Health Outstanding Resident Paper Presentation

Suicidality and Non-Suicidal Self-Injury Among Transgender Populations - A Systematic Review

Recorded Sunday, June 27, 2021, 2021
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The winner of the 2021 Outstanding Resident Paper Award, Myriam Vigny-Pau, MD, will present her review, Suicidality and Non-Suicidal Self-Injury Among Transgender Populations - A Systematic Review, the winning manuscript this year.

Dr. Myriam Vigny-Pau is a third-year psychiatry resident at the University of Toronto. She is co-chair of the community of practice Queer in Psychiatry (QuiP), embedded within the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, and has completed research regarding the mental health of the LGBTQ2S+ community throughout her medical career.

Moderators:  Christopher McIntosh, MD, is the Editor-in-chief of the Journal of Gay and Lesbian Mental Health which is in its 31st year of publication. He is an Associate Professor with the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto

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How Cultural Competence can Reduce Bias and Improve Psychiatric Care for Marginalized Groups

Recorded Sunday, June 20, 2021
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This session will attempt to explain how bias contributes to health disparities in minority and other marginalized groups, review how organized medicine is addressing structural racism, and describe how to address structural racism in everyday practice. Intersectionality will be addressed including tie-ins with how interventions for structural racism apply to sexual minority groups, and vice versa. 

Cheryl D. Wills, M.D., DFAPA,  is a general, child and forensic psychiatrist, is  Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University, serves on the APA Board of Trustees, and chaired its APA Presidential Task Force on Structural Racism. She has coauthored treatment guidelines with the APA Guideline Writing Group and speaks nationally and internationally about mental health, culture, and law.

Moderators:    Elie G. Aoun, MD, is a psychiatrist in general, addiction and forensic practice in New York on faculty at Columbia University and at Central New York Psychiatric Center as the Sex Offender Management liaison psychiatrist.

Amir Ahuja, MD, is Director of Psychiatry at the Los Angeles LGBT Center. He is the President of AGLP and the former Vice President of External Affairs for GLMA: Health Professionals Advancing Equality.  He is also on the APA Council on Minority Mental Health and Health Disparities and the President of the APA Caucus of LGBTQ Psychiatrists. 

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AGLP Book Discussion: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, by Ocean Vuong

Recorded Sunday, June 13, 2021
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The novel is written in the form of a letter by a young Vietnamese American nicknamed Little Dog, whose life mirrors that of Ocean Vuong. The letter is written to Little Dog's mother Hong, more often called or translated as Rose (hồng).   

Please feel free to invite your social bubble to the book club. 

Book Discussion Leaders:  David Tran, MD, Clayton Chau, MD, and Nathan Ha, MD.

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AGLP Medical Student Graduation

Recorded Sunday, June 6, 2021
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AGLP Educational  Session: South Asian LGBTQ Mental Health

Recorded Sunday, May 23, 2021
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Talk 1: Finding Home in Spaces In Between

Talk 2: Contextualizing South Asian LGBTQ Identities

Talk 3: Epidemiology and Disparities  

This session is in recognition of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

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LGBTQ+ Asian Americans: Coming Out, Intersectionality, & Racism During COVID

Recorded Sunday, May 16, 2021
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Cosponsored by Pride CAPA (www.pridecapa.org), AACAP’s SOGIIC (American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry) (Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Issues Committee) and AGLP:  The Association of LGBTQ Psychiatrists (www.aglp.org) 

Talk # 1 A Source of Strength and Community: Coming Out & Intersectionality Among Gay Chinese Male Emerging Adults
Dr. Zhou  will present data from a qualitative research study examining the coming out experiences and intersectionality of gay young men of Chinese descent, and also describe a new model of coming out for LGBTQ+ Asian Americans.  

Talk #2 Examining Issues of Racism Experienced by LGBTQ Asian Americans During COVID-19
Dr. Vito will address racism against LGBTQ Asian Americans as there has been a rise since the outbreak of the pandemic, as LGBTQ Asians and people of Asian descent have been marked by derogatory language such as “Chinese virus” or “Kung Flu” related to COVID-19.

Moderators:  Chris Esguerra, MD MBA is a psychiatrist and entrepreneur focused on integrating health care and social services, as well as evolving health care through technology and different care pathways. 

Dr Sufen Chiu is a MD PhD who retired from academic medicine and research during the great recession.

This session is in recognition of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month.  

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Film Discussion: The Half of It (2020) by Alice Wu

Recorded Sunday, May 9, 2021
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Description of Movie:  The Half of It is a 2020 American coming-of-age comedy-drama film written and directed by Alice Wu. It stars Leah Lewis, Daniel Diemer, Alexxis Lemire, and Collin Chou.  The film is a modern loose retelling of Cyrano de Bergerac in which teenage Ellie Chu begins writing love letters on behalf of the inarticulate Paul Munsky to his crush, Aster Flores.  

Film Discussion Leaders:   Faye Chao, MD, attended Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia and completed her general psychiatry residency training at Harvard Longwood. She went on to an addiction psychiatry fellowship at NYU, and was the unit chief of the inpatient addiction service at the Addiction Institute of Mount Sinai before joining the VA.

Heather Kim, MD  is a 2nd year child and adolescent psychiatry fellow at Yale Child Study Center. She completed her general psychiatry residency training at Duke University Medical Center and received her MD from Medical College of Wisconsin. Her main areas of interest are trans health, health justice, and social psychiatry.

Violette Hong, MD, completed her BA at UC Berkeley, MD at UICOM Peoria, and residency and fellowship at UCSF.  She is Board-Certified in Child, Adolescent, and Adult Psychiatry and in Lifestyle Medicine.  She has a full time private practice in Berkeley, CA.   

Prelude:  Dr. Kurtis Kaminishi is a geriatric psychiatrist and UCSF assistant clinical professor. He practices and teaches medical students and fellows at the San Francisco VA medical Center.  He will be playing Philip Glass Piano Etude no. 11. CLICK HERE to vew...

This session is in recognition of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month.  

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AGLP Annual Membership Meeting

Recorded May 2, 2021
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AGLP 2021 Annual Awards Ceremony

Recorded Sunday, April 25, 2021
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This year honoring Howard Rubin, M.D., with the 2021 James Paulsen Award; the Friends Community Center this year with the 2021 Stuart Nichols Award; State Representative Sheila Kuehl with the 2021 Barbara Gittings Award; and Peggy Rajski, Randy Stone (posthumously), and Celeste Lecesne, of the Trevor Project, with the 2021 Distinguished Service Award.

The awards presentations will be preceded by a presentation by the Director of Education for the American Psychiatric Association (APA), Tristan Gorrindo, M.D., who will provide an introduction on how to navigate the virtual offerings of the APA Annual Meeting which will begin on Saturday, May 1. This introduction should prove useful especially to those who have not attended a virtual meeting of this scope in the past. The same registration listed below will apply for this session.

Funding for this event is sponsored, in part, by Professional Risk Management Services (PRMS), with our gratitutde for their sustained support for these events.

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Book Discussion: The Prophets, by Robert Jones, Jr.

Recorded Sunday April 18, 20217:30pm-8:45pm
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With a lyricism reminiscent of Toni Morrison, Robert Jones, Jr., fiercely summons the voices of slaver and enslaved alike, from Isaiah and Samuel to the calculating slave master to the long line of women that surround them, women who have carried the soul of the plantation on their shoulders. As tensions build and the weight of centuries—of ancestors and future generations to come—culminates in a climactic reckoning, The Prophets masterfully reveals the pain and suffering of inheritance, but is also shot through with hope, beauty, and truth, portraying the enormous, heroic power of love.

Book Discussion Leaders: 

Terrance Embry, MSCI is an MD Candidate at Meharry Medical College and an incoming Resident Physician at Yale Department of Psychiatry. He is a member of the APA's Black and LGBTQ Caucuses as well as a member of the AGLP’s Medical Student and BIPOC Committees.

Terence L. Howard, MS is a MD candidate from the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University in Long Island, NY, and incoming PGY1 resident at the University of California, San Francisco Adult Psychiatry Residency Training Program. He contributes to AGLP's medical student and BIPOC committees, while also retaining professional affiliations with the APA and SNMA. 

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Film Discussion: The Prom (2020) starring Meryl Streep

Recorded Sunday, April 11, 2021
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Cosponsored by Pride CAPA (www.pridecapa.org), AACAP’s SOGIIC (American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry) (Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Issues Committee) and AGLP:  The Association of LGBTQ Psychiatrists (www.aglp.org)
  
The movie is based on a Tony-nominated musical. The Prom was nominated for six Tonys in 2019. It tells the story of Emma, a queer high school student who wants to bring her girlfriend to senior prom. However, the Indiana school's PTA bans her from doing so. A  troupe of hilariously self-obsessed theater stars swarm into a small conservative Indiana town in support of the couple.  

Film Discussion Leaders:   Serena Chang, MD is the Director of Psychiatry at Callen-Lorde Community Health Center and an Assistant Clinical Professor at NYU School of Medicine, where she lectures on human sexuality. Gabrielle Shapiro, MD is a clinical Professor at The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, chair of the APA Council on Children, Adolescents and Their Families, a member of the APAF, Aacap-pac, NYCMS, NYCPS and NYCCAP Boards. Jose Vito, MD DFAPA is a child, adolescent, and an addiction psychiatrist in NYC. He is a Clinical Assistant Professor at NYU School of Medicine and a forensic tele-psychiatrist at the Office of Mental Health State of New York (OMH) with a private practice in NYC.  

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Gender Dysphoria, a personal and professional perspective

Recorded Sunday, April 4, 2021
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Gay men are a pretty homogeneous group. They have different preferences but at the end of the day they are still men. Lesbians are a pretty homogeneous group. They have different preferences but at the end of the day they are still women. Transgender individuals can be men, women, non-binary, heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, or pansexual. The average lifespan for a transgender woman of color is estimated to be 35 years of age. Our overall suicide attempt rate is 41%. And still we are the fastest growing demographic in the United States. There are 20 million transgender stories in the United States. The following is but one of them.

Speaker:  Jami Woods, D.Ph, MD, ABPN, ASCP Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Vice Chair for Diversity and Inclusion at the University of California Riverside. Originally a pharmacist by training, she went back to medical school, practiced primary care medicine for eight years before completing a second residency in psychiatry. She is board-certified in psychiatry and subspecialty certified in psychopharmacology. Her areas of academic interest include the neurobiology of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, autism spectrum disorders, and gender dysphoria. She is a transgender female and her pronouns are she/her/hers.

Moderators:  Anderson Still, MD, Attending Psychiatrist with the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, which includes working as the program psychiatrist for the Gender and Sexuality Development Clinic. 

Nat Mulkey, is a graduate of Hendrix College and fourth year medical student at Boston University School of Medicine. They have matched into psychiatry at the University of Vermont's combined adult/child program. Throughout medical school they have worked on child health advocacy projects and LGBTQI+ medical education. Their interests include pharmacology, sexual health, working with gender diverse youth, bipolar disorder, depression and suicidality. They are non-binary and use the pronouns they/them/theirs. 

This session is being done in recognition of International Transgender Day of Visibility which is on March 31.  

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Virtual Book Group: Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, by Audre Lorde 

Recorded Sunday, March 21, 2021
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Description:  A little black girl opens her eyes in 1930s Harlem, weak and half-blind. On she stumbles - through teenage pain and loneliness, but then to happiness in friendship, work and sex, from Washington Heights to Mexico, always changing, always strong. This is Audre Lorde's story. A rapturous, life-affirming autobiographical novel by the 'Black, lesbian, mother, warrior poet', it changed the literary landscape.

Book Group Leaders:   Khadija "Kay" Hassan is a first-year medical student at Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara.  She has a BSc. in nursing and a master's in health promotion. Her interest is in promoting mental health as an integral component of health care in marginalized communities.

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Watch Party & Film Discussion: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Recorded Sunday, March 14, 2021
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Film Description:  The film focuses on Ma Rainey, an influential blues singer, and dramatizes a turbulent recording session in 1920s Chicago. Starring Viola Davis and Chadwick BosemanDirected by George Wolfe. Based on the play by August Wilson, Produced by Denzel Washington.  The movie also received GLAAD Media and Golden Globe nominations. Movie Trailer:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ord7gP151vk 

Sarita Metzger, MD, MPH is a PGY-4 Resident at the University of Pennsylvania.

Natalie Umesi, MD, is the Director of Clinical Coordination at Mindful Urgent Care, New York's first psychiatric urgent care offering same-day appointments. She has an interest in cultural and addiction psychiatry. As a lifetime enthusiast of coming-of-age films, Natalie enjoys thoughtful discussion on how challenging life experiences are portrayed through this medium of art.

This film discussion is organized in recognition of Women's History Month. Please feel free to invite your social bubble to the movie and discussion.  

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Zoom Session:  Our Vision for the APA: President-Elect Vivian Pender, MD and newly elected APA Trustees speak to AGLP

Recorded Sunday, March 7, 2021
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Vivian Pender, MD, president-elect of the APA, will meet with AGLP to discuss her Presidential Theme: Social Determinants of Mental Health, focusing on adverse childhood experiences, racism, social justice and equity.   AGLP members Elie Auon, MD, (Early Career Psychiatrist) ECP trustee-elect, and Felix Torres, MD, Minority/Underrepresented (M/UR) trustee elect, will join the discussion and also address how AGLP members can get more involved in the APA. 

Vivian B. Pender, MD, DLFAPA, President-Elect, American Psychiatric Association, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Med College,Training & Supervising Psychoanalyst, Columbia University, Special Adviser to the APA on the UN, Main Representative to the UN, International Psychoanalytical Association Ed, The Status of Women, 2016

Felix Torres, MD, MBA, DFAPA is the proud father of Gemini Twins with his husband Ray. He is the Chief of Forensic Medicine for the Texas Health and Human Services Commission’s State Hospital System. Dr. Torres  recently won the election for APA Minority/Underrepresented Representative Trustee 

Elie G. Aoun, MD, is a psychiatrist in general, addiction and forensic practice in New York on faculty at Columbia University and at Central New York Psychiatric Center as the Sex Offender Management liaison psychiatrist. Dr. Aoun’s work focuses on examining the intersection of Substance Use Disorders (SUD) and the law. He works closely with medical students as well as psychiatric residents and fellows at Columbia University where he serves as the co-director of the sexual behavior clinic and rotation.

Moderator:   Mark Townsend, MD  is the George C Dunn Professor and Executive Vice Chair in the Department of Psychiatry at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center New Orleans.  He is the current president of the APA LGBTQ Caucus.  Dr. Townsend has held several positions within the Association, including Membership Committee and terms in the Assembly as LGBTQ and Louisiana District Branch representative.   

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Virtual Book Group: Girl, Women, Other by Bernardine Evaristo 

Recorded Sunday, February 21, 2021
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Description:  Bernardine Evaristo, a Nigerian British novelist is the winner of the 2019 Booker Prize, the highest literary honor in the English language. Girl, Woman, Other is a magnificent portrayal of the intersections of identity and a moving and hopeful story of an interconnected group of Black British women.

Book Group Leaders:   Blessing Oyeniyi, MD, is a Nigerian American 3rd year psychiatry resident at UT Austin Dell Medical School with an interest in improving diversity and inclusion in medicine.

Sarah Noble, DO currently works at Albert Einstein Medical Center where she is the Medical Director of Outpatient Behavioral Health.

This book group is organized in recognition of Black History Month.   

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Virtual Film Discussion:  Tongues Untied  (1989) directed by Marlon Riggs

Recorded Sunday, February 14, 2021
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Description: Marlon Riggs' essay film Tongues United gives voice to communities of black gay men, presenting their cultures and perspectives on the world as they confront racism, homophobia, and marginalization. It broke new artistic ground by mixing poetry (by Essex Hemphill and other artists), music, performance and Riggs' autobiographical revelations. The film was embraced by black gay audiences for its authentic representation of style, and culture, as well its fierce response to oppression. It opened up opportunities for dialogue among and across communities.  Tongues Untied has been lauded by critics for its vision and its bold aesthetic advances, and vilified by anti-gay forces who used it to condemn government funding of the arts.It was even denounced from the floor of Congress.   

Film Group Discussion Leaders:  Marshall Forstein, MD, (leader), Richard Dudley, Jr., MD, Billy Jones, MD,  Eric Williams, MD, and Leon Cushenberry, MD

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AGLP Virtual Book Club Real Life by Brandon Taylor    

Recorded Sunday, January 17th, 2021
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Description: Almost everything about Wallace is at odds with the Midwestern university town where he is working  toward a biochem degree. An introverted young man from Alabama, black and queer, he has left behind his family without escaping the long shadows of his childhood. For reasons of self-preservation, Wallace has enforced a wary distance even within his own circle of friends—some dating each other, some dating women, some feigning straightness. A series of confrontations with colleagues, and an unexpected encounter with an ostensibly straight, white classmate all over a late summer weekend conspire to fracture his defenses while exposing long-hidden currents of hostility and desire within their community.  

Author:  Brandon Taylor is the senior editor of Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading and a staff writer at Lit Hub. He holds graduate degrees from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the University of Iowa, where he was an Iowa Arts Fellow at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in fiction.

Hosts: Terrance Embry, MSCI is a MD Candidate at Meharry Medical College, and a Psychiatry applicant for this current residency cycle. He is also a member of the AGLP’s Medical Student Committee.

Terence L. Howard, MS is a MD candidate from the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University in Long Island, NY and current psychiatry residency applicant. Along with AGLP, he is a member of the Student National Medical Association and American Psychiatric Association.    

This book club was organized in recognition of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Birthday. 

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AGLP Zoom Educational Session:  Focusing on Sex and Relationships in the LGBTQ Community, and Inpatient Consideration for LGBTQ patients

Featuring two talks based upon articles from the first LGBTQ issue of Focus, APA’s Journal of Lifelong Learning in Psychiatry

Recorded Sunday, January 10, 2021
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Sex and Relationship Issues in Work With the LGBTQ Community 

In working with LGBTQ individuals and couples, an understanding of their unique experiences and how they shape individuals’ strengths and weaknesses can help clients overcome challenges to self-esteem and to the forming and maintaining of satisfying relationships.

Alan Schwartz, MD and Christopher McIntosh, MD.

Care Considerations for LGBTQ Patients in Acute Psychiatric Settings 

This article addresses the needs of LGTBQ patients in acute psychiatric settings. Inclusive, affirming communication and culturally competent history taking, risk assessment, treatment environments, and discharge considerations are discussed.

Matthew Fadus, MD, Kenneth Hung, MD, and Flavio Casoy, MD.  

Moderators: Peter Ureste, MD and Jack Drescher, MD

Sex and Relationship Issues in Work With the LGBTQ Community
Care Considerations for LGBTQ Patients in Acute Psychiatric Settings

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Panel Discussion:  Journey or Rollercoaster? The Pleasures and Perils of Becoming a Queer Parent

Recorded Sunday, January 3, 2021
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This panel discussion brings together AGLP psychiatrists who will be discussing their journey into parenthood.  They will delve into the emotional process of choosing to become parents and the logistics of making their dreams a reality.   Felix Torres, MD, MBA, DFAPA will speak about his experience as a member of a gay couple, using a full service egg donation and surrogacy company, from choosing the egg donor to matching with a gestational carrier, and from implantation to delivery of twins.  Tim Van Deusen, MD,  will speak about the process and his experiences of an “open adoption”, where he and his partner have maintained an ongoing relationship with their 14 year old daughter’s birth mother and family.  Sufen Chiu, MD, PhD will speak about two women physicians raising biracial children: balancing the demands of residency, academic careers, on-call, breast feeding, and more.    This session will be of particular interest to members who are interested in having children.

Felix Torres, MD, MBA, DFAPA is the proud father of Gemini Twins with his husband Ray. He is the Chief of Forensic Medicine for the Texas Health and Human Services Commission’s State Hospital System. Dr. Torres is running for APA Minority/Underrepresented Representative Trustee in the upcoming election.

Tim Van Deusen, MD, is a child and adolescent psychiatrist and Associate Professor at the Yale School of Medicine.  His work focuses on adolescents and young adults with serious mental illness.  He also has a private practice in Fairfield, Connecticut.

Dr Sufen Chiu is a MD PhD who retired from academic medicine and research during the great recession. After 5 years in solo practice, she is site director and busy general and child adolescent psychiatrist for Mercy Medical group in Sacramento: a large multi specialty group. 

Moderators:   Gary Huang, MD  is a child psychiatrist working for Kaiser Redwood City. He and his partner have a 2 year old son who keeps them busy. Gary Robert Collins, MD is a proud father of twin boys: Ben and Noah, and twin girl/boy Eve and Simon through gestational surrogacy with his spouse Adam.  Dr. Collins trained at UCLA & NYU, where he remains on faculty as a forensic psychiatrist and is in full time practice in Manhattan and suburban New Jersey.   Gary is on the NY Tristate Board of Family Equality Council.  

 

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AGLP Zoom Educational Session:  Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll in LGBTQ Communities

Featuring two talks based upon a chapter from the GLMA Handbook on LGBT Health. 

Recorded Sunday, December 6, 2020 
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Speakers:  Elie G. Aoun, MD, is a psychiatrist in general, addiction and forensic practice in New York on faculty at Columbia University and at Central New York Psychiatric Center as the Sex Offender Management liaison psychiatrist. Faye Chao, MD attended Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia and completed her general psychiatry residency training at Harvard Longwood. She went on to an addiction psychiatry fellowship at NYU, and was the unit chief of the inpatient addiction service at the Addiction Institute of Mount Sinai before joining the VA. She is board certified in both General and Addiction Psychiatry.  

Description:  There is limited research on maladaptive patterns of substance use that do not meet diagnostic criteria for substance use disorders (SUDs) in LGBTQ communities, but available data suggest higher rates of SUDs than the general population. This session will review patterns of drug and alcohol use in LGBTQ communities and their relationship to sexual behaviors and expression.

Moderators:  Penelope Proctor Ziegler, M.D. (Penny) is a retired addiction psychiatrist from Fernandina Beach, FL who has been medical director of several addiction treatment programs; medical director/CEO of three state Physician Health Programs (most recently Florida’s Professionals Resource Network); and Executive Director of IDAA, a confidential recovery organization for healthcare professionals and their loved ones. She is certified by the ABPN in general and addiction psychiatry, and in addiction medicine by the American Board of Addiction Medicine. 

Michael Murphy MD, MPH is a graduate of Harvard Medical School and completed residency at McLean and MGH. After serving for 12 years in various regional and national roles, he is currently the Executive Medical Director at a large addiction care facility in Florida where he started an addiction medicine fellowship.

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AGLP Zoom Educational Session:  At the Forefront of Transgender Mental Health

Featuring three talks based upon recent articles from AGLP’s Journal of Gay and Lesbian Mental Health. 

Recorded Sunday, November 22, 2020
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Transgender patients’ satisfaction with their mental health providers prior to gender affirming surgery

Natalia Parra, MD and Lydia A. Fein, MD MPH 

Given the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) guidelines requiring transgender patients to present letters from mental health professionals prior to gender affirming surgery (GAS),  we designed a study to evaluate patient satisfaction with their mental health provider (MHP) prior to GAS. We demonstrated that transgender patients were highly satisfied with their MHP prior to GAS, regardless of the length of this relationship. This finding supports current WPATH SOC (Standards of Care) recommendations and may provide reassurance to those who perceive these guidelines to be barriers to GAS for transgender patients.

The transgender organ donor: New frontiers in advocacy for mental health providers

Kelly J. Park, MD and Stephanie H. Cho, MD

This presentation will trace ways in which inadequate understanding of transgender health and broader social disparities can interact during the evaluation of a transgender living organ donor and discuss how psychiatrists can advocate for greater health equity in transplant medicine.

The peculiar case of the standards of care: Ethical ramifications of deviating from informed consent in transgender-specific healthcare

Madeleine Lipshie-Williams, MD 

This talk will address the alternate model of consent used in most transgender-specific care in the United States.  We will briefly review basic bioethical principles and the informed consent model, and then contrast this to the "Standards of Care" model.  We propose that the differences rest on prioritization of different bioethical principles in the two models, with the Standards of Care model placing an inappropriate value on nonmaleficence due to a pathological understanding of transness, which ultimately leads to increased harm.

Moderators: Dan Karasic, MD, and iMurat Altinay, MD. 

Prior to this session, there will be a AGLP Zoom panel:  Applying for Psychiatry Residency and Jobs: Perspectives from Trans and Gender-Diverse Psychiatrists (Tamar Camal MD, Hilary Maia Grubb, MD, Alexis Chavez, MD, Rahil Rojiani, MD) from November 22 6:00PM to 7:25PM EST,  3:00PM to 4:25PM PST. 

This session is in recognition of Transgender Day of Remembrance, which is two days before (Nov 20). 

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Applying to Psychiatry: Interview Tips from LGBTQ+ Residents

Saturday, November 21, 2020, 4:00pm-5:30pm PST / 7:00pm-8:30pm EST

The medical student committee of AGLP has organized a panel of LGBTQ+ psychiatry residents to meet with students via Zoom to answer questions about interviews and give tips. Please join us in this exclusive and illuminating session!

Panel: Veronica Ridpath, DO,  Matthew Gunther, MD, Dennis Dacarett Galeano, MD MPH, Dr. Blessing Oyeniyi, Dr. Carolyn Kraus-Koziol, and Sophie Lieberman

Moderators: Jay Louik (he/him) and Terrance Embry, MSCI (he/him) 

This panel is open to AGLP members and nonmembers. 

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Zoom Panel Discussion: Applying for Psychiatry Residency and Jobs: Perspectives from Trans and Gender-Diverse Psychiatrists.

Sunday November 22, 2020, 6:00pm to 7:25pm EST, 3:00pm to 4:25pm PST

The medical student committee of AGLP has organized a Zoom panel of distinguished trans and gender-diverse psychiatrists to meet with trans and gender-diverse medical students/residents/early career psychiatrists to answer questions about applying to residencies and jobs as trans and gender-diverse applicants. Please join us for this exclusive and illuminating session.

Panelists: Dr. Tamar Carmel is a proud, out, queer and trans-masculine physician who works as a Community Psychiatrist and Integrated Care Psychiatrist in an LGBTQ+ health center in Pittsburgh, PA. Hilary Maia Grubb, MD (she/her/hers) is a queer and genderqueer psychiatrist and educator in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has developed curricula in cultural humility with gender diverse populations for health professions providers and trainees at Columbia University Medical Center and UCSF Medical Center, and is currently an attending psychiatrist on the Consultation-Liaison Service at UCSF. Rahil Rojiani (they/them) is a queer, genderfluid, South Asian Ismaili Muslim, and a 2nd year resident at Harvard’s community psychiatry program at Cambridge Health Alliance. Alexis Chavez, MD is a founder of multiple award-winning clinics with focuses on LGBTQ mental health and interdisciplinary trans health. She has trained providers across the country to be more competent working with LGBTQ patients. Dr. Jami Woods is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Vice Chair for Diversity and Inclusion at the University of California Riverside. Originally a pharmacist by training, she went back to medical school, practiced primary care medicine for eight years before completing a second residency in psychiatry. She is board-certified in psychiatry and subspecialty certified in psychopharmacology. Dr. Jack Pula is a psychiatrist and psychotherapist in private practice in New York City, Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University, and graduate of the Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. 

This session is open only to trans, non-binary, gender-diverse, and genderqueer medical students, psychiatry residents, and psychiatrists. Both AGLP and non-AGLP members are welcome.  Please feel free to forward this invitation to any trans/gender diverse psychiatrists and medical students that you may know.  

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AGLP Zoom Educational Session:  Focusing on Psychotherapy for LGBTQ patients and Mental Health Care for LGBTQ Veterans

Featuring two talks based upon articles from the first LGBTQ issue of Focus,  APA’s Journal of Lifelong Learning in Psychiatry
Recorded Sunday, November 15, 2020
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Issues Arising in Psychotherapy With Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Patients Jack Drescher, MD, and Matthew Fadus, MD (CLICK HERE to download article)

Although psychotherapy with LGBT patients does not differ substantially from psychotherapy with other patients, issues such as minority stress and being closeted invariably arise with patients belonging to a sexual or gender minority

Jack Drescher, MD, is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in private practice in NYC. He is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University, Faculty Member at Columbia’s Division of Gender, Sexuality, and Health, Senior Psychoanalytic Consultant at Columbia’s Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, Adjunct Professor at New York University’s Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and a Training and Supervising Analyst at the William Alanson White Institute. He is author of Psychoanalytic Therapy and the Gay Man (Routledge) and Emeritus Editor of the Journal of Gay and Lesbian Mental Health.

Matthew Fadus, MD is a 1st year child and adolescent psychiatry fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital/McLean and completed general psychiatry residency at the Medical University of South Carolina and pediatrics internship at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. He is originally from Springfield, MA. 

Toward Optimizing Mental Health Care for Sexual and Gender Minority Veterans William Byne, MD, PhD, and Joseph Wise, MD (CLICK HERE to download article)

Because many health care providers are not prepared to address the needs of sexual and gender minority veterans, the authors identify the areas of cultural and clinical competence necessary for psychiatrists and other mental health professionals to provide high-quality care for this population.

William Byne, MD, PhD is Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Columbia University and a psychiatrist with the New York Transgender Identity Program.   He was previously with the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the LGBT veteran care coordinator at the Bronx VA Medical Center.

Joseph Wise, MD is psychiatrist in private practice in Brooklyn, NY, working with children, adolescents, and adults.  Joe is a former active-duty US Army psychiatrist, including a deployment to Iraq.  He is co-editor of "Gay Mental Healthcare: Providers and Patients in the Military" published by Springer, 2018. 

Moderator: Michael Kauth, PhD is a clinical psychologist and Director of LGBT Health in the Veterans Health Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs.  He is also Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX and author of The Evolution of Human Pair-Bonding, Friendship, and Sexual Attraction (Routledge).

This session is not a Journal Club so you don’t have to read the articles beforehand; but please peruse them if you are interested. These articles are in Focus (Summer 2020 Vol 18 #3)

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LGBTQ People of Color: Caught in the intersection of systemic racism and anti-LGBTQ oppression

CME ZOOM Session
2.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits

Reorded Sunday November 8th, 2020
CME Recording Access will be available shortly

Course Description: The BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) committee of AGLP: The Association of LGBTQ Psychiatrists has organized a symposium on systemic racism and intersectionality in (LGBTQ) Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer POC, particularly focusing on black people. Debbie Carter, MD, will speak about the history of the theory of intersectionality developed by Kimberle Crenshaw to describe the way in which social identities overlap, intersect, interact, and impact mental health. A. Ning Zhou, MD, will discuss the basics of anti-Black racism in the LGBTQ communities, and anti-LGBTQ bias and gender role rigidity in the Black community. Murad Khan, MD will explore the co-construction of race and gender and its implications for the mental health of Black LGBTQ people. Kenn Ashley, MD will speak about the issues related to the disparities in violence targeting Black transwomen.

 

 

 

 

 

Debbie Carter, MD, is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Colorado.

A. Ning Zhou, MD, is a child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist at the San Francisco Department of Public Health, where he works at Chinatown/North Beach Mental Health Services, at Dimensions Clinic for Queer and Trans Youth and at Castro-Mission Health Center.

Murad Khan, MD, is a PGY-2 Psychiatry Resident at Yale. He is currently a Resident Leader of the Human Experience Track of Yale’s Social Justice and Health Equity Curriculum and the Resident Leader of its Psychoanalytic Gatherings group.

Kenneth Ashley, MD, ACPsych, FACLP, DFAPA is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He has both written and presented on mental health issues often at the intersection of HIV, LGBT, diversity, and health equity.

CME Registration. Cost for obtaining CME Credit is $15 for AGLP members, $30 for non-members. There is no fee if you are auditing the course only and do not want CME credit.

Recorded Session. A few weeks after the session, we will also be providing the opportunity to obtain CME through watching the recording. The same rates will apply.

Accreditation Statement

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint providership of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and AGLP: The Association of LGBTQ Psychiatrists. The APA is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Designation Statement: The APA designates this live activity for a maximum of 2.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits ™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

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AGLP Zoom Educational Session: Helping LGBT Youth, Treating family members of Transgender people

Featuring two talks based upon articles from the first LGBTQ issue of  Focus,  APA’s Journal of Lifelong Learning in Psychiatry
Recorded Sunday, November 1, 2020

CLICK HERE to see the recording...

Mental Health Care for LGBT Youths by Lorraine E. Lothwell, MD, Naomi Libby, MD, and Stewart L. Adelson, MD.  LGBT youths are at high risk for psychiatric and other health problems. Therapeutic work focusing on unique developmental issues affecting identity and addressing stigma can help foster healthy psychosexual development. Resources are available for clinicians helping these youths.

Lorraine Lothwell, MD, is a Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist in NYC. She works at the NYU Student Health Center on the Gender Team, seeing transgender and gender-nonconforming students in need of psychiatric care and she is in private practice. Lorraine is on faculty at NYU, supervising third year psychiatry residents and medical students. Prior to coming to NYU, she was Medical Director at the Harlem Hospital Child Psychiatry outpatient clinic. 

Stewart L. Adelson MD, (Columbia and Cornell Medical Schools and Yale Law School) is lead author of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry’s practice parameter on LGBT youth and Director of the Youth Equity Science/YES Project, a collaboration of mental health, legal, and human rights experts working to fight stigma and decrease suicide and other mental health disparities among LGBT youth in the U.S. and globally.

 

Naomi Libby, MD, is a child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist and psychotherapist in New Haven, CT. She is Assistant Clinical Professor at the Yale Child Study Center, Medical Director of the Clifford Beers Clinic, psychiatric consultant to the Yale Pediatric Gender Program, and maintains a private practice. Her areas of specialization include working with transgender and gender-diverse youth and their families and autism spectrum disorders across the lifespan.

 

Treating Family Members of Transgender and Gender-Nonconforming People:  An Interview with Eric Yarbrough, MD, by Benjamin Fey, MD, Joanne Ahola, MD and Flavio Casoy, MD.  Build your confidence in applying the clinical skills you've had all along to patients who are family members and significant others of transitioning and gender non-conforming folks. We will present cases and pearls of wisdom drawn from our Ask the Expert article and your experiences. Click your ruby slippers and join us.

 

 

 

 

 

Benjamin Fey, MD  is a psychiatrist in Brooklyn, New York and currently works as an inpatient psychiatrist at Maimonides Medical Center and Assistant Clinical Professor at SUNY Downstate. His areas of interest include LGBTQ+ mental health, public psychiatry, and narrative psychiatry.

Joanne Ahola, MD is a psychiatrist in private practice in NYC and Medical Director Emeritus of the Weill Cornell Center for Human Rights. She is a Co-Author and Thematic Reviewer of the UN document, Manual on Effective Investigation and Documentation of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment and Punishment, commonly known as the Istanbul Protocol.

Flavio Casoy, MD  is a psychiatrist in New York and currently works as the Medical Director for Special Projects at the NYS Office of Mental Health.  He specializes in mental health systems and mental health policy, including ensuring access to quality care for LGBT patients enrolled in the public mental health system.  

Moderator: Brandon Johnson, MD   is an assistant professor of psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai where he is the associate program director for the child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship. Dr. Johnson has expertise in working with LGBTQ youth and their families, and is a member of the sexual orientation and gender identity issues committee at AACAP.
This session is not a Journal Club so you don’t have to read the articles beforehand; but please peruse them if you are interested.

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AGLP Zoom Educational Session:  AIDS, Trauma, and Burdens of History

Featuring two talks based upon articles from the Journal of Gay and Lesbian Mental Health (JGLMH)

Recorded Sunday, October 18, 2020 

The traumatic sequelae of surviving the AIDS crisis, by Kyle Baird, DO.  

Dr. Baird is currently employed by the Mental Health Center of Denver, between his 3rd and 4th year of training, as a part of the community mental health career program within the University of Colorado psychiatry residency. His professional interests include community mental health, addiction psychiatry, and trauma- and stressor-related disorders.

 

 

The association between HIV/AIDS and childhood sexual abuse: An exploratory case study by Xavier Diao, MD  

Dr. Diao is a first-year child and adolescent psychiatry fellow at the NewYork-Presbyterian bi-campus program at Cornell and Columbia. He completed his training in general psychiatry at The Mount Sinai Hospital. His clinical interests include minority mental health (LGBTQ and Asian/Pacific Islander), psychodynamic psychotherapy, and the psychiatric care of transitional age youth.

This zoom session features recent articles from AGLP’s Journal of Gay and Lesbian Mental Health.  Dr. Baird will briefly review the evolution of trauma- and stressor-related disorders in the field of psychiatry and discuss several formulations regarding the prolonged psychological sequelae that may develop in survivors of the HIV/AIDS crisis.  Dr. Diao will speak about the association between HIV/AIDS and childhood sexual abuse, illustrated by a case example. He will explore epidemiologic, etiologic, and psychiatric considerations of risk-taking behavior in individuals with a history of childhood sexual trauma.  His paper won the 2019 JGLMH Outstanding Resident Paper Award. 

Moderators: Chris Wallis, MD, is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at UCSF and a faculty member at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis. He works with adolescents and adults as individuals and couples in his private practice in San Francisco. Dan Hicks, MD, is a past president of AGLP and served on the APA LGBT committee.   Originally a Hoosier, he has worked at Indiana University, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, and most recently as Clinical Professor from Medstar Georgetown University Hospital.  

THIS SESSION IS ONLY FOR MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS AND TRAINEES INCLUDING MEDICAL STUDENTS

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AGLP Zoom Lecture:  Designing Babies:  How Technology is Changing the Ways We Create Children

Recorded Sunday, September 20, 2020

Description:  Robert Klitzman, MD  will be discussing his new book, Designing Babies: How Technology is Changing the Ways We Create Children. Moderator:  John Kruse MD, PhD has been an AGLP member since his residency at UCSF and has been practicing outpatient psychiatry in San Francisco for twenty-five years. He and his husband are raising twin daughters who are high school seniors. 

CLICK HERE to see the recording

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Semi-Annual Membership Meeting and AGLP 2020 Awards Ceremony

Recorded Sunday, August 30, 20203:00pm

 

 

Because of the success of our virtual annual membership meeting in May, we plan to have more frequent general membership meetings so that we can all stay connected during this difficult time. Please come and find out what AGLP is currently doing to bring you educational/social/networking/antiracist programs for the rest of the year. Give us your feedback and get more involved with the organization. We will discuss preliminary planning for the 2021 APA Annual meeting. We will also present the delayed 2020 AGLP awards. Please spread the word about the award recipients.

AGLP 2020 Paulsen Award: Eric Yarbrough, M.D., for his outstanding contributions to the LGBTQ+ Community at-large, and AGLP as President.

AGLP 2020 Barbara Gittings Award: Debbie Carter, M.D., for her significant advocacy and care for the LGTBQ+ Community,
under-represented minorities, and children.

AGLP 2020 Stuart Nichols Community Service Award: The Morris Home, Philadelphia, fFor their demonstrated commitment to support trans- and gender-nonconforming individuals. Morris Home, the only residential recovery program in the country to offer comprehensive services specifically for the transgender community, provides a safe, recovery-oriented environment in which people are treated with respect and dignity.

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First AGLP Zoom Case Conference:  The case of the "agitated" transgender woman: Treating transphobia in the hospital

Recorded Sunday, August 23, 2020  

This case conference is only for health professionals.
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Description:  Psychiatry Consultation-Liaison service was consulted for possible treatment for an "agitated" 29-year-old transgender woman, with a history of HIV who was hospitalized for an anorectal abscess. She was upset she was  misgendered several times by her  care team. She indicated that it had been a long time since anyone has called her by “that name,” and those actions had made her angry and irritable, and her hospital stay, unbearable. Patient admitted she was verbally aggressive; however, she stated she was able to calm down and utilize humor to cope with her situation (“they can call me a tree or an elephant, I don't care.”). 

Antoine (Tony) Beayno, MD is a Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry fellow at Mount Sinai. He recently completed his residency in Psychiatry at the American University of Beirut.  He is a board member of the Lebanese Medical Association for Sexual Health (LebMASH). Interests include LGBTQ+ and  HIV  Psychiatry. 

Discussant:  Marshall Forstein, MD was one of the first openly-gay residents at Massachusetts General Hospital, and has worked with people with AIDS since his residency in 1981. He works with the LGBTQ communities and with people with HIV and teaching and training at Harvard Medical School, and is very involved with the APA's committee on HIV. In 1986, he and his husband were one of the first gay male couples to adopt an infant in the Boston area. Dr. Forstein is currently the Vice Chair of Psychiatry at Cambridge Health Alliance, the public sector health care system affiliated with Harvard Medical School. 

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AGLP Book Discussion Group, James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room

Recorded Sunday, August 16th, 2020

Giovanni's Room is the second novel published by James Baldwin who was an African American writer, thinker, and civil rights activist. Published in 1956, it is one of the early frank depictions of a love relationship between two men. Like Baldwin himself, the protagonist of Giovanni's Room, David, is an American ex-pat living in Paris who meets and falls in love with an Italian man. The book has had incredible staying power and is considered a queer classic. The African American literary critic, Hinton Als recently published a re-appraisal of the work in the New York Times, discussing Baldwin's choice to write this story about two white men and about his use of a "metaphor, the distance of whiteness".

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/05/t-magazine/james-baldwin-giovannis-room.html

Co-Hosts: Curley L. Bonds, MD, is the Chief Medical Officer for the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health. Eric Williams, MD, is the Assistant Dean for Student Affairs and the director of the Introduction to Clinical Medicine first-year medical student course at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine.

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AGLP Zoom Film Discussion:  Abomination: Homosexuality and the Ex-Gay Movement

An AGLP produced documentary. 

Recorded Sunday, August 9, 2020 

Description:  In 2006, AGLP produced the documentary, Abomination: Homosexuality and the Ex-Gay Movement, which focuses on the lives of four people, for whom reparative or other ex-gay treatments were unsuccessful, against a backdrop of the religious, scientific, and non-scientific spirit of the time.  

Five diverse discussants will speak about how much has stayed the same and what has changed, in reference to spirituality, conversion therapy, and LGBTQ rights since this documentary was made.   

Discussants:   Beth M. Belkin, MD, PhD, DFAPA, DFAACAP, Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical College; Jack Turban, MD MHS is a fellow in child and adolescent psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine, where he researches the mental health oftransgender youth. He also a frequent op-ed contributor, with writing in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Vox, and The Los Angeles Times; Jose Vito, MD, DFAPA is a child, adolescent, and an addiction psychiatrist in NYC. He is a Clinical Assistant Professor at NYU School of Medicine and a forensic tele-psychiatrist at the Office of Mental Health State of New York (OMH) with a private practice in NYC.; Dr. Ken Campos is a Distinguished Fellow in the APA, who is focused on schizophrenia.  He was formerly a neurochemistry researcher, and then spent 20 years in closed locked hospital service.  His current passion is producing a podcast to educate and support the caregivers of a loved-one who is living with severe mental illness.; David L. Scasta, MD, DLFAPA is a forensic psychiatrist based in Princeton, NJ and a past president of AGLP.  He co-chaired the committee which produced the documentary, Abomination, Homosexuality and the Ex-Gay Movement; Moderator: Amir Ahuja, MD  is the Director of Psychiatry at the Los Angeles LGBT Center. He is the President of AGLP and the Vice President of External Affairs for GLMA: Health Professionals Advancing Equality. 

Prelude:  Stanley Harris, MD DLFAPA, is a University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry Clinical Professor who hosted chamber music concerts, prior to COVID-19, in his Los Angeles home. Lester H Groom: Psalm 40:11 "Let loving kindness and truth preserve us."  https://www.facebook.com/StansMusicParlor90019/

CLICK HERE to see the recording.

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AGLP/Journal of Gay and Lesbian Mental Health Educational Zoom Session

Learning How to Thrive: Resilience in LGBTQ Youth and Young Adults

Welcoming members of Pride CAPA and AACAP’s SOGIIC (American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry) (Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Issues Committee)

Recorded Sunday, July 26

Presentation #1: “It truly does get better:” Young sexual minority men’s resilient responses to sexual minority stress. Dr. Audrey Harkness is a psychologist and research assistant professor at the University of Miami in the Department of Public Health Sciences. Dr. Harkness’ research focuses on sexual and gender minority mental health and HIV-prevention and treatment. Dr. Harkness will be describing a qualitative study that identified themes of resilience among young sexual minority men who completed a course of cognitive-behavioral therapy to address minority stress underlying their distress. The analysis revealed three categories of resilience: (1) cultivating internal affirmation strategies, (2) building supportive relationships and community, and (3) using cognitive and behavioral skills to cope with minority stress. The study is a secondary analysis from Project ESTEEM (R01MH109413; PI: Pachankis) and was recently published in AGLP’s Journal of Gay and Lesbian Mental Health: https://doi.org/10.1080/19359705.2020.1713276

Presentation #2: Resiliency in the Clinical Setting: Focusing on LGBTQ+ Youth and Transitional-Age Populations. Annalyn Gibson, MD is a second year Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellow at the University of Rochester where she completed her Adult Psychiatry Residency. She enjoys employing psychotherapeutic techniques and keeping in mind the family and community systems in play when working with patients of all ages. Dr. Gibson will review resiliency and its specific implications in reducing minority stress for the LGBTQ+ youth and transitional-age populations. We will additionally cover ways in which we can strengthen these resiliency factors in our work with patients in the clinical setting.
This session is not a Journal Club so you don’t have to read the article beforehand; but please peruse it if you are interested. The print copy will be coming in the mail shortly for AGLP members Vol 24 #3 258-280 or click on the link above.

Moderators:

Shervin Shadianloo, MD, is a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, working as an Assistant Professor at Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. He is the lead psychiatrist in LGBTQ care, in particular transgender care at transgender programs across Northwell Health System. He also runs a private practice in Manhattan.

Christopher McIntosh, MD, is the Editor-in-chief of the Journal of Gay and Lesbian Mental Health which is in its 31st year of publication. He is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto.

Musical Prelude: Scott Leibowitz, MD is a child and adolescent psychiatrist who is the Medical Director of Behavioral Health for the THRIVE Gender Development Program at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at OSU College of Medicine. He is the Co-Chair of the SOGIIC for AACAP and the chapter lead for the Adolescent Assessment Chapter for WPATH’s upcoming 8th edition of the Standards of Care. He has been playing piano since he was 6 years old.

CLICK HERE to see the recording.

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AGLP Educational Zoom Session

The AGLP Oral History Project:  Jack Drescher, MD interviews Billy Jones, MD, Margie Sved, MD and Marshall Forstein, MD  based on recent interviews from the Journal of Gay and Lesbian Mental Health as a jumping off point for a stimulating meeting of the minds.

Recorded Sunday, July 19, 2020

Description:  Dr. Drescher interviews Dr. Jones, who gave the 2020 AGLP/APA John Fryer, MD, award lecture Black and Gay: Historical Perspectives of Black Gay Men, as well as two former AGLP Presidents, Drs. Sved and Forstein, on their historical efforts to combat homophobia in American Psychiatry and the intersection of their personal and professional lives and identities.

Moderators:  Mary Barber, MD, is past president of AGLP; a public sector psychiatrist for over twenty years; studying at Union Theological Seminary preparing to be an Episcopal priest; a wife and mother.

Robert Kertzner, MD, is an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University in the Division of Gender, Sexuality, and Health, and maintains a private practice in New York City.

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AGLP Educational Zoom Session

Desire, Disgust and Disgrace – how sex affects our well-being

Recorded Sunday, July 12

Description:  Our first international zoom session at a special time. Michael King will talk about sex and mental health, the links between type, quality, and frequency of sexual behavior and happiness, and how disgust about sexual practices affects the mental health of LGB and gender non-conforming people.  

Michael King is Professor of Psychiatry in the Division of Psychiatry at University College London Medical School.  He has been interested in the health and well-being of lesbian, gay and bisexual people for over 30 years and has conducted research into AIDS and HIV; the mental health of LGBT+ people; the history of ‘treatments’ of homosexuality and the role of psychotherapists with LGB people.  He established the Royal College of Psychiatrist’s Special Interest Group in Gay and Lesbian Mental Health in 2001 and is a member of its current Executive Group.  https://www.ucl.ac.uk/psychiatry/people/king

Moderaters:

Götz Mundle, Prof. Dr. med, is a psychiatrist and psychotherapist from Berlin.

Josep Vilanova is a Consultant Psychiatrist currently working in Leicester (United Kingdom) and is also the Finance Officer of the Rainbow Special Interest Group of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.

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Gay Sexuality and Dating

Featuring two talks based upon articles from the Journal of Gay and Lesbian Mental Health (JGLMH)

Recorded Sunday, June 21, 2020

The Way of the World:  How heterosexism shapes and distorts male same-sexuality, a thesis
by Ronald E. Hellman, MD, MS, DLFAPA, former Associate Professor, Institute for Advanced Medicine, Mt. Sinai Hospital New York, and current associate editor of JGLMH  

Disconnected Connectedness:  The Paradox of digital dating for gay and bisexual men
by David Goldenberg, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical College, and the faculty of New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute.  He is also in private practice in Manhattan. 

Moderators:

Jack Turban, MD, is a child psychiatry fellow at Stanford University School of Medicine, where he researches the mental health of transgender youth
Timothy McCajor Hall, MD PhD FAPA FASAM, Assistant Clinical Professor at UCLA and associate member at the New Center for Psychoanalysis. 

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A Model for LGBTQ Mental Health Care and Medical Student Training

Recorded Sunday, June 7, 2020

Description: Challenges and opportunities in using the medical student-run clinic model to build training and curricula in LBGTQ mental health while providing specialized access to mental health care for the NYC LGBTQ population. We will also share adaptations implemented in response to the pandemic.  For information about the clinic go to https://wellnessqlinic.weill.cornell.edu/

Presenters:  Jess Zonana MD, Medical Director, Weill Cornell Medicine Wellness Qlinic, Weill Cornell Medicine, Chief, Adult Ambulatory Services, Department of Psychiatry, New York Presbyterian Hospital.

Jess Spellun, MD, Mental Health Director, Weill Cornell Medicine Wellness Qlinic, Fellow in Public Psychiatry, New York Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia University Irving Medical Center.

Constance Zhou, Co-Executive Director, Weill Cornell Medicine Wellness Qlinic, MD-PhD Candidate, Weill Cornell/Rockefeller/Sloan Kettering Tri-Institutional MD-PhD Program

Matthew Wickersham, Co-Executive Director, Weill Cornell Medicine Wellness Qlinic, MD-PhD Candidate, Weill Cornell/Rockefeller/Sloan Kettering Tri-Institutional MD-PhD Program

Moderators:
Charles P. Samenow, MD, MPH is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the George Washington University School of Medicine. He is the clerkship director and runs the Human Sexuality curriculum in the medical school.

Brian Palmer, MD, MPH, is currently interim VP for Mental Health and Addiction Services, Allina Health, Minneapolis, MN, and previously Vice Chair for Education, Mayo Clinic, Department of Psychiatry and Psychology.

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From Stonewall to Tomorrow: Drawing on LGBTQ+ History to Improve your Practice

Recorded Sunday, May 24th, 2020
Description: Together we’ll look at the history of psychiatry and the modern gay rights movement as a way to understand ongoing challenges faced by clinicians and LGBT+ patients.

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Presenters:  

James Koved MD, Assistant Professor, Oregon Health and Science University;
Caitlin Rippey MD PhD, Senior Fellow, University of Washington Medical Center;
Jesse Markman MD MBA, Assistant Professor, University of Washington Medical Center & Associate Chief of Staff for Mental Health, VA Puget Sound

Abstract:

Historically, major medical and mental health institutions have pathologized homosexuality, promoting stigma and shame. Today there remain significant gaps in provider and institutional knowledge and attitudes on this topic, even amongst well-meaning individuals, which contributes to the barrier to care for this patient population. This session is designed for participants of all identities who want to strengthen their cultural humility skills. We will engage with the history of psychiatry and the modern LGBTQ+ movement, then use this foundation to discuss actionable steps to address ongoing challenges.

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AGLP Outstanding Resident Paper Award

ZOOM Session Sunday May 3, 2020, with Dustin Nowaskie, MD

RECORDED VIDEO AVAILABLE ON AGLP'S FACEBOOK PAGES
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Moderators
Erick Hung, MD  Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry UCSF, Program Director of Adult Psychiatry Residency Program 
Serena Yuan Volpp, MD, MPH, former Treasurer of AGLP, is a Clinical Associate Professor at NYU School of Medicine.

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John Fryer Award and Lecture

Billy Jones, M.D.
Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry, NYU Langone Health

Black and Gay: A Historical Perspective of Black Gay Men
Recorded Sunday, April 26, 2020

RECORDED VIDEO AVAILABLE ON AGLP'S FACEBOOK PAGES
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AGLP-Sponsored Fryer Award Discussion/ Q & A Session with Billy Jones, M.D.  
Recorded April 26, 2020

Moderators:

Kenneth Ashley, MD is Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and past president of both AGLP and the NY County District branch of the APA. 

Richard G. Dudley, Jr., MD maintains a private practice in clinical and forensic psychiatry in New York City; has taught at New York University School of Law; and has focused much of his practice and writings on the mental health of African-American adolescent and adult males.

Jack Drescher, MD is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Columbia University, Adjunct Professor, New York University, Training & Supervising Analyst, William Alanson White Institute, Emeritus Editor, Journal of Gay and Lesbian Mental Health and 2018 winner of the John Fryer Award.

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