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WPS Presidential Symposium 2016 Jointly Provided by the American Psychiatric Association

and the Washington Psychiatric Society

Violence Risk Reduction Tools for Clinical Practice and More

February 27, 2016 • 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Saint Elizabeths Hospital Auditorium 1100 Alabama Avenue SE • Washington, DC

Metro Green Line - Government issued ID required for entry

For more information, email: admin@dcpsych.org • Register at http://dcpsych.org or call 855.605.7243

SPEAKERS• A Public Health Approach to Reducing Firearm Injury - Georges C. Benjamin, MD;

Executive Director, American Public Health Association, Washington, DC

• Neuropsychiatric Aspects of Violence - James Merikangas, MD; Clinical Professorof Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, George Washington University School of Medicine,Washington, DC

• Gun Violence, Urban Youth and Mental Illness - Carl C. Bell, MD; Staff Psychiatrist,Jackson Park Hospital Family Medicine Clinic, Chicago, Illinois

• Veterans and Violence - Col. (Ret.) Elspeth Cameron Ritchie, MD, MPH; ForensicPsychiatry Consultant, Silver Spring, MD

• Creating Mental Health Law Enforcement Partnerships — Use of Crisis Team Training& the Sequential Intercept Model - Leslie Weisman, LCSW, Arlington CommunityServices Board, Behavioral Healthcare Division and Captain Brian M. Berke, ArlingtonCounty Police Department, Arlington, VA

• Suicide and Firearms: Risk Assessment and Intervention - Liza Gold, MD; ClinicalProfessor of Psychiatry, Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC

Light Breakfast and Lunch Provided

Member Rate: $95 • Medical Student/Resident Fellow: $15 Non-Member Rate: $145

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ELECTED OFFICERSPresident- ConstanCe e. dunlaP, Md, dFaPa / President-Elect- JosePh Collins, do, FaPa / seCretary - Chris raCzynski, Md / treasurer - C.M. Prasad, Md, Phd, dlFaPa iMMediate Past President -steven ePstein, Md, dFaPa / ChaPter Presidents: veroniCa slootsky, Md (dC); Marilou tablang JiMenez, Md, dFaPa (Maryland); robert Johnson, Md, dFaPa (virginia)***PATRICIA H. TROY, CAE, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Much has changed in the 25 years since I was a psychiatry resident learning to assess the risk of suicide and homicide in patients. On April 20, 1999, eight years after I completed residency training, the Columbine High School massacre occurred in Colorado. This mass shooting and subsequent ones — Virginia Tech, Fort Hood, Aurora,

Sandy Hook, the Washington Navy Yard, Isla Vista, and Charleston, to name just a few — have sparked debate about the availability of firearms within the United States, the correlation between gun violence and mental illness, and the need for gun control laws. However, while tragic and deserving of our attention, mass shootings are a rare occurrence, accounting for less than 1% of deaths from firearms in our country. ConstanCe e. dunlaP, Md, dFaPa

President, Washington PsyChiatriC soCiety

host, WPs Presidential syMPosiuM

“It is our role, our training, our task as psychiatrists, to know what we are looking for in assessing danger, and how to formulate a treatment plan to reduce risk in a patient with clear risk factors. “No HI/SI” is not sufficient any longer in either our thinking or our decision making. Understanding risk factors and likely precipitants is required for maximum readiness and prevention…”

— Ann Birk, MD, DLFAPAChair, WPS Violence Risk Reduction Work GroupWashington Psychiatrist Magazine, Summer 2013

In the meantime, our attention has been diverted from the more common and frequent occurrences of violence: domestic disputes; first break psychoses; and suicides, homicides, and accidental injuries and deaths caused by the presence of firearms. Also overlooked is the victimization and incarceration of indivi- duals with mental illness and co-morbid substance use disorders.

This Symposium, featuring experts in the field, is designed to dispel common misconceptions about violence and the mentally ill, educate clinicians about firearm culture, and review clinical strategies, innovative public health, law enforcement, and legal initiatives that can reduce the risk of firearm access in at risk individuals.

I hope that you will participate!

9:20 a.m. A Public Health Approach to Reducing Firearm Injury Georges C. Benjamin, MD, MACP, FNAPA, FACEP (E), Hon FRSPH, Hon FFPH Executive Director, American Public Health Association

Georges C. Benjamin, MD is well-known as a health leader, practitioner and administrator. Ben-jamin has served as the executive director of the American Public Health Association, the nation’s oldest and largest organization of public health professionals, since December 2002. He came to that post from his position as secretary of the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Benjamin became secretary of health in Maryland in April 1999, following four years as its deputy secretary for public health services. As secretary, Benjamin oversaw the expansion and improve-ment in the state’s Medicaid program as well as a range of state health regulatory and public

health programs. At APHA, Benjamin also serves as publisher of the nonprofit’s monthly publication, The Nation’s Health, the association’s official newspaper, and the American Journal of Public Health, the profession’s premier scientific publica-tion. He is the author of more than 100 scientific articles and book chapters. Benjamin also serves on several boards such as Research!America, the University of Maryland Medical System and, the Reagan-Udall Foundation. He is a member of the Na-tional Academy of Medicine. For additional information, visit Dr. Benjamin’s full bio: http://www.apha.org/about-apha/executive-board-and-staff/apha-staff/georges-c-benjamin-md/ • APHA: http://www.apha.org/ American Journal of Public Health: www.ajph.org • The Nation’s Health: www.thenationshealth.org

saster and combat mental health issues. Her assignments and other missions have taken her to Korea, Somalia, Iraq, and Cuba. She has over 200 publications, mainly in the areas of forensic, disaster, suicide, ethics, military combat psychiatry, and women’s health issues. She is the senior editor on the just published volumes: Forensic and Ethical Issues in Military Behavioral Health, Women at War and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Related Diseases in Combat Veterans: A Clinical Casebook. Forthcoming books in-clude Intimacy After Injury: Restoring Sexual Health on Return from Combat and Psychiatrists in Combat, Clinicians Experience in the War Zone. Other major publications include the Military Medicine Textbook on Combat and Operational Behavioral Health, The Mental Health Response to the 9/11 Attack on the Pentagon, Mental Health Interventions for Mass Violence and Disaster, Humanitarian Assistance and Health Diplomacy: Military-Civilian Partnership in the 2004 Tsunami Aftermath, and the 2013 series on The Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicines for the Treatment of PTSD in military service members. For more information on Dr. Ritchie, please visit: elspethcameronritchie.com.

Captain Brian Berke

Captain Brian M. Berke has been a member of the Arlington County Police Department for over 25 years. He has served in Operational, Tactical, and Administrative roles during his career. He holds a B.A. in Justice from the American University, and a Master’s in Criminal Justice from Boston Univer-sity. Captain Berke serves as an Adjunct Professor of Criminal Justice at Marymount University. Cap-tain Berke held integral supervisory roles in the 9/11 terrorist attack on the Pentagon, and the Wash-ington Sniper events. Captain Berke is committed to successful outcomes between law enforcement and the mentally ill/developmentally disabled. He was instrumental in developing and implementing Arlington County’s Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) program, and has spoken to a variety of audiences about law enforcement/mental health partnerships and training. Captain Berke is a member of the Arlington Community Services Board (www.arlintonva.us/csb), the CSB Mental Health Commit-

tee, and an original member of Arlington’s Mental Health Criminal Justice Review Committee. He has received numerous awards from the Police Department, the CSB, and NAMI related to his work on issues involving law enforcement and the mentally ill.

1:20 p.m. Creating Mental Health Law Enforcement Partnerships — Use of Crisis Team Training & the Sequential Intercept Model • Leslie Weisman, LCSW

Leslie Weisman, LCSW is a graduate of Georgetown University School of Languages and Linguistics and Boston College Graduate School of Social Work. She has focused on mental health and criminal justice work for over 25 years. She is currently employed as Client Services Entry Bureau Chief at Arlington County’s Behavioral Healthcare Division. She provides direct oversight for Arlington’s Crisis Intervention Center which includes Emergency Services, Jail Diversion/Forensic Case Management, Discharge Planning, Homeless Outreach, Assessment Services, Relationships and a county wide domestic violence initiative. Ms. Weisman is the former Arlington Community Service Board (CSB) NGRI (Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity) Coordinator. She chairs the Arlington Mental Health and Criminal Justice Review Committee, a

longstanding mental health and criminal justice stakeholder group responsible for mental health/forensic initiatives in Arlington. Ms. Weisman is the mental health liaison to the Arlington County Police Department (ACPD) Crisis Negotiation Unit. She has been the mental health liaison to the ACPD since 2003. Ms. Weisman developed Crisis Intervention Team training in Arlington in 2008 partnering with ACPD command staff. Ms. Weisman is trained as a Cross System Mapping Facilitator (for mental health and criminal justice partnering); she spoke on NPR’s Diane Rehm Show representing the community mental health perspective on serious mental illness after the Newtown, CT tragedy. She was appointed to Virginia Governor’s Mental Health Task Group for Campus Safety in 2013 and appointed to Virginia’s Forensic Transformation Team in 2014.

10:00 a.m. Neuropsychiatric Aspects of Violence • James Merikangas, MD, LLC

Dr. Merikangas is a Neuropsychiatrist trained at Johns Hopkins and Yale and now Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, where he teaches forensic psychiatry. He has examined serial killers, sexual sadists, pedophiles, contract killers, and many other violent criminals. He has testified in more than 100 Capital cases, and has consulted to Juvenile Courts. He has published in the Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, The Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, and edited the text, “Brain Behavior Relationships.” He was a founding director of the American Neuropsychiatric Association, and is a former president of the American Academy of Clinical Psychiatrists. He currently has contracts with the Department of Justice in Washington, DC and death penalty legal defense organizations.

10:40 a.m. Gun Violence, Urban Youth and Mental Illness • Carl Bell, MD

Carl C. Bell, MD, Staff Psychiatrist Jackson Park Hospital Family Medicine Clinic MOB - 1st Floor 1625 E. 75th Street Chicago, IL 60649 (773) 633-5450 (cell) bell-carl@att.net (e-mail address) Former President/C.E.O. - Community Mental Health Council, Inc. Director - Institute for Juvenile Research (Birthplace of Child Psychiatry) (ret.) Professor of Psychiatry and Public Health - University of Illinois at Chicago (ret.)

12:40 p.m. Veterans and Violence • COL (Ret) Elspeth Cameron Ritchie, MD, MPH

Dr. Ritchie is a forensic psychiatrist with especial expertise in military and veteran’s issues. She recently joined the Washington DC VA as Chief of the Community Based Outpatient Clinics. Prior to that assign-ment, she was the Chief Clinical Officer, Department of Behavioral Health, for the District of Columbia. She retired from the Army in 2010, after holding numerous leadership positions within Army Medicine, to include the Psychiatry Consultant. She trained at Harvard, George Washington, Walter Reed, and the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, and completed fellowships in both forensic and preventive and disaster psychiatry. She is a Professor of Psychiatry at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Georgetown University, and Howard University School of Medicine. An internationally recognized expert, she brings a unique public health approach to the management, of di-

2:10 p.m. Suicide and Firearms: Risk Assessment and Intervention Liza Gold, MD

Dr. Gold is a clinical and forensic psychiatrist. She is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the George-town University School of Medicine. She is editor of and )contributing author to Gun Violence and Mental Illness (American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc., 2016}, available at https://www.appi.org/Course/Book/Subscription/JournalSubscription/id-3385/Gun_Violence_and_Men-tal_Illness). She is the editor of the American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Forensic Psy-chiatry, and has edited and authored award winning books, as well as numerous book chapters and peer-reviewed articles. She teaches and lectures nationally. Dr. Gold has a private practice in general and forensic psychiatry in Arlington, Virginia. For more information go to: lizahgoldmd.com.

8:30 a.m. Registration and Breakfast9:00 a.m. Welcome and Introductions

• Constance E. Dunlap, MD, DFAPA, WPS President, Symposium Chair• Farooq Moyhuddin, MD, FAPA, Chair Psychiatry Training & Education, Director,

Psychiatry Residency Training, Saint Elizabeths Hospital/DBH• Saul Levin, MD, CEO and Medical Director, American Psychiatric Association• Tanya Royster, MD, Director, DC Department of Behavioral Health• Eliot Sorel, MD, DLFAPA, APA Assembly Delegate

9:20 a.m. Speakers 11:20 a.m. Panel Discussion 11:50 a.m. Lunch 12:40 p.m. Speakers 2:50 p.m. Panel Discussion 3:20 p.m. Closing, Constance E. Dunlap, MD, DFAPA, WPS President, Symposium Chair

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