Psychiatry and Neurology

ECHO – Psychiatry in Primary Care Community of Practice

The purpose of this 9 session community of practice is to build the capacity of primary care clinicians and clinical teams to effectively manage common mental health conditions in adults. It will feature interactive case presentations from the participants. The…

ECHO – Substance Use Disorders in Jails

This 12-session ECHO aims to increase Substance Use Disorder (SUD) identification and treatment by Oregon jail using the Project ECHO model. ECHO is a tele-mentoring program that uses videoconferencing technology to combine brief expert presentations with interactive and practical case…

Association of Medicine and Psychiatry (AMP) Webinar Series

The Association of Medicine & Psychiatry (AMP) hosts a monthly webinar series that serves as a platform for dual trained psychiatrists to discuss the intersection of medicine and psychiatry. These webinars cover a range of topics relevant to both fields,…

The Unremembered Contributions of Drs. William Alanson White, Harry Stack Sullivan, and Clara Thompson: Social Reformers and Clinical Innovators

Underrecognized now, but yet in the early half of the twentieth century, these analysts made revolutionary contributions to socio-cultural theory in psychoanalysis and advanced efforts toward advocating societal reforms. Their seminal writing on psychiatric education, institute training models, community mental…

Dialogues With Holmes Report – Racism as a Central Definer Of Culture

The Holmes Report reminds us that the basis of racism, what it flourishes on is the stance of “we and they”. This impacts almost all aspects of the organizational identity and structure, and there are thin margins from everyday microaggressions…

Freud, Gandhi, and South Asia: Historical, Philosophical and Clinical Perspectives

In an era that is increasingly conscious of race and diversity, analysts and therapists are seeking to identify their own biases in understanding other cultures. Freud (depth psychology) and Gandhi (psychosocial/mutual understanding) will be contrasted and explored in the context…

Ernest Becker’s Magnum Opus “The Denial of Death,” Fifty Years On

In 1974, Ernest Becker was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for “The Denial of Death”. Fifty years later, we will highlight its keen interdisciplinary contributions and theories it has spawned (Terror Management Theory) in synthesizing ideas from philosophy, anthropology, and religion,…