Dismantling Stigma for All: Addressing Physician and Patient Mental Health Including Suicide Risk
Dismantling Stigma for All: Addressing Physician and Patient Mental Health Including Suicide Risk
it Overcoming obstacles The webinar forum will connect clinicians with industry experts on suicidal ideation and clinicians with lived experience to discuss dismantling the stigma around seeking mental health treatment.
Speakers will also discuss practical strategies, action steps, and evidence-based resources on how to identify those physicians and patients at risk for suicide and connect them to the most appropriate care.
September 8, 2022, noon CT
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Daniel Miller, MD
Chief of Graduate Medical Education and Behavioral Health Integration, Sun River Health
Dr. Miller is a practicing family physician and chief of Graduate Medical Education and Behavioral Health Integration for Sun River Health, a 45-site New York State FQHC serving approximately 225,000 patients throughout New York’s Hudson Valley, Long Island and New York City.
Dr. Miller also serves on the Board of Directors of the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) and is co-chair of its Behavioral Health and HIV Service Integration Committee, as well as a co-chair of the NACHC Board Task Force on Undoing Racism . He is an assistant professor of family medicine at New York Medical College.
Clinical interests of Dr. Miller have long focused on the interplay between our physical health and our emotional, social, and spiritual lives. In addition to his training in family medicine, he is trained in body-centered approaches to psychotherapy and healing, including Primary Emotional Energy Recovery (PEER) and Internal Family Systems (IFS).
Christine Yu Moutier, MD
Chief Medical Officer, American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
Dr. Moutiern serves as chief medical officer for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and knows the impact of suicide firsthand. After her lived experience and the loss of colleagues to suicide, she dedicated herself to the fight against this leading cause of death. As CMO, Dr. Moutier champions a nationwide movement driven by AFSP’s blend of science and grassroots. As the leading private funder of suicide research, AFSP seeks to translate research into action for families, communities, health professionals and policy makers. With a long-standing commitment to suicide loss survivors and those with lived experience and a nationwide chapter network, AFSP brings together a large, diverse community where authenticity, healing, and hope result.
Dr. Moutier has testified before Congress, appeared at the White House and provided congressional briefings on suicide prevention. She co-anchored CNN’s Emmy Award-winning suicide prevention program Finding Hope, serves as an expert nationally and internationally, and remains committed to the mission of saving lives and bringing hope to those affected by suicide.
Stephen O’Connor, PhD
Head of the Suicide Prevention Research Program, National Institute of Mental Health
Dr. O’Connor is chief of the Suicide Prevention Research Program at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). Services and Intervention Research Division. Dr. O’Connor manages a grant portfolio that includes projects on youth and adult suicide risk detection and interventions to reduce suicidal ideation, attempts and deaths. Before joining NIMH, Dr. O’Connor has conducted research focused on early intervention for survivors of attempted suicide in trauma centers; Group-Based Treatment for Suicidal Veterans; a stepped and collaborative care approach to reduce posttraumatic stress, depression, substance use, and suicide risk in hospitalized trauma patients; and other health services-oriented efforts to improve screening, assessment, and treatment of suicidal individuals in traditional and nontraditional behavioral health settings.
Dr. O’Connor completed doctoral training in clinical psychology at the Catholic University of America, as well as a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Injury Prevention and Research at the University of Washington Harborview.
Scott Pasichow, MD, MPH
Assistant Medical Director of EMS, Southern Illinois University
Dr. Pasichow is an emergency physician and EMS physician at Southern Illinois University and an active voice for resident and physician well-being. He is currently a member of the Emergency Medicine Section Council within the AMA House of Delegates and an Illinois State Medical Association representative to the Young Physicians Section. Scott also serves as the American College of Emergency Physicians Young Physician Advisor to the ACEP Council. He has received grant funding to assess attitudes toward and use of parental leave in the Emergency Medicine residency and is a strong advocate for equity and equity in the use of leave throughout the medical home.
Dr. Pasichow has also been vocal in fighting public and medical licensing board stigma around mental health care treatment for physicians by sharing his experience with anxiety, depression and suicide during residency. His story can be found at ACEP Magazine Now and in the AMA The Movement Medicine Podcast AND Medical Resident Series. You can find him on Twitter at @SPMD16 and Facebook at Scott. Pasichow.
