AFP CONFERENCE

“WORKING WITH FAMILIES IN VARIOUS PSYCHIATRIC SETTINGS”

8am-11am PST/11am-2pm EST VIRTUAL ONLY

NO CHARGE FOR ATTENDANCE

View recording of conference here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/14MEsEO4A65rdNfa7eHmyuKKwWBJJDtLl/view?usp=drive_link

SCHEDULE (EST)

 11-11:10am: Introduction by Dr. Glick on the state of psychiatric practice, it’s efficacy, and why it isn’t used more in practice

 11:10-11:45am: Family Work in Outpatient Setting (Carolyn Fulton)

11:45-12:20pm: Role of Family Engagement in a Partial Hospitalization Program (Dr. Tumuluru)

12:20-12:30pm: Break

12:30pm-1:05pm: Family and Family Interventions in Institutional Care (Dr. Gogineni)

1:05-1:40pm: Understanding and Treating Adolescent Eating Disorders (Dr. Spector and Dr. Spettigue)

1:40-2pm: break out rooms based on participant’s practice care settings

About Our Speakers

 Ira D. Glick, M.D.

Ira D. Glick, M.D., Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, previously Director of Inpatient Hospitalization Services and Chief of the Schizophrenia Clinic at Stanford University School of Medicine, has an extensive background in research, education and academic medicine. He has been a professor at three prestigious medical schools (the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), Weill Cornell Medical, and Stanford) as well as the Senior Science Advisor to the Director of the National Institute of Health (NIMH). He was Visiting Scholar at UC San Diego, is a Visiting Fellow at Weill Cornell Medical College, and now Adjunct Professor at the NYU School of Medicine and at Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia. He has been on the Board of the American Family Therapy Academy as well as founder and long-time Board member of both the International society for Sport Psychiatry and the American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology (ASCP).

Carolyn Fulton, LCSW

Carolyn Fulton, LCSW is an Ackerman trained family therapist, who has been practicing individual, family, couple, and support group psychotherapy for 23 years. She graduated from the Ackerman Institute for the Family’s clinical externship program in 2015, after completing both her undergraduate and graduate degrees in Social Work. Most of Carolyn’s career has been spent working in academic medical settings, with a clinical focus on families in oncology and palliative care. She spent 9 years working at Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK), on the in-patient GI medical oncology and supportive care services, in addition to serving as the Social Work Coordinator for MSK’s Family Therapy Clinic, through the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Carolyn’s efforts to highlight the unique needs of the young adult patient at the end of life, from a family systems lens, afforded her many opportunities to speak and teach as well as implement programs for this patient population at MSK. Most recently, Carolyn worked as a clinical instructor for University of Colorado’s outpatient psychiatry department, assisting with teaching efforts for psychiatry residents and child and adolescent fellows on family therapy frameworks and techniques, as well as working full time for UCHealth’s palliative care service. Currently, she works in her private practice, and continues to lecture, teach, and clinically supervise therapists in the community.

Rameshwari Tumuluru, M.D.

Dr. Tumuluru is a Professor of Psychiatry and a Clinician Educator. She is the Medical Director of the Southside Partial and IOP Program at UPMC Western Behavioral Health (WBH) and is an attending psychiatrist at the Center for Autism and Developmental Disabilities (CADD program) at UPMC WBH. Dr. Tumuluru is active in promoting best practices for intermediate levels of care at the program and advocating for this practice nationally. She incorporates cultural sensitivity and humility into her daily clinical practice and is actively involved in teaching these practices to various levels of learners—including medical students, residents, and fellows. She is also involved in DEI activities in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh, facilitates the Training and Education initiatives for the Department, and is a member of the Department’s DEI Leadership Council. She is also involved in DEI activities at a national level. She is a co-investigator in various research projects primarily in Autism and Developmental Disabilities. A fun fact and proud accomplishment of Dr. Tumuluru's is that she received funding to create a garden at the Partial Program to promote wellbeing through Mindfulness as a practice for the children and the staff.

Rama Rao Gogineni, MBBS, M.D,

Rama Rao Gogineni., MBBS, MD is a graduate of Kakatiya Medical College,Osmania University. Dr.Gogineni finished Psychiatry residency at University of Pennsylvania and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry fellowship at Medical college of Pennsylvania. He has training in Family therapy and psychoanalysis. He is currently professor of psychiatry and Senior Educator in Developmental psychiatry at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University. He is an active, contributing member of US and world psychiatric organizations. To his credit he has several publications, presentations and 4 books on the way.

Noah Spector, M.S.W, Ph.D, RSW

Dr. Noah Spector is a Lecturer  in the University of Ottawa department of psychiatry and has worked as a social worker on the Eating Disorders team at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) in Ottawa for the past 5 years.  He specializes in acute treatment of youth with severe anorexia nervosa.  Noah is also the program director of the Mind Matters team at the CHEO research institute, which includes all CHEO based researchers who study the development of, and optimal contexts for, young people’s brains and  minds. Dr. Spector has co-taught the family therapy seminar at CHEO for psychiatric and social work learners for the past eight years.

Wendy Spettigue, MD, FRCPC

Dr. Wendy Spettigue is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and has worked on the Eating Disorders team at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario in Ottawa for the past 24 years.  She specializes in family-based therapy for youth with severe anorexia nervosa.  Her years of clinical work, leadership, research, teaching and advocacy for eating disorders led her to be awarded the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada’s 2019 Specialist of the Year award for Ontario. Dr. Spettigue has received over 9 million dollars in research funding, and has authored numerous papers and book chapters on pediatric eating disorders.