AJP Residents' Journal

国语 – Frank Qi (祁忻), Barrington Hwang (黄品杰) MD, Bushra Rahman VMSIII, Eunice Yuen MD PhD (袁月敏) 从AAPI 心理健康的视角讨论最近事件, 袁医生的CHATogether 计划( www.chatogether.org ),  与其他心理健康资源。因为英文，国语，粤语 版本因翻译原因略有不同. 感谢 Linfeng Wang, Frank Qi, Alice Liao, 袁月敏 翻译本期节目. 國語 – Frank Qi (祁忻), Barrington Hwang (黃品傑) MD, Bushra Rahman VMSIII, Eunice Y...

Barrington Hwang, MD, Bushra Rahman VMSIII, and Eunice Yuen, MD, PhD, discuss recent events in the context of AAPI (Asian American & Pacific Islander) mental health, Dr. Yuen's use of structured conversations in CHATogether to improve AAPI mental health (www.chatogether.org), and more resources. The English, Mandarin, and Cantonese versions may have slight differences due to translation. Thank you...

Blake Novy, M.D. interviews Akeem Sule, M.B.B.S. on the topics of hip hop, film, and Black Culture, as it relates to mental health. Dr. Sule is a co-founder of Hip Hop Psych, a social venture designed to bridge the gap between the medical community and hip hop culture. Additional topics discussed include structural racism, using film and music for psychoeducation, and creative approaches to patien...

Sabina Grech, MD, Blake Novy, MD, and Barrington Hwang, MD, introduce themselves as the media editors for the American Journal of Psychiatry Residents' Journal for the 2021-2022 academic year. They specifically discuss reasons for wanting to serve as a media editor, upcoming podcast topics, and current events. We are also conducting a brief, anonymous survey so we can best learn how to serve the n...

Barrington Hwang, MD, and Matthew Edwards, MD, discuss Matthew's experience as the editor-in-chief. They discuss skills you can develop with the AJP Residents' Journal editorial board, some of Matthew's scholarly work including Freedom House, his reasons for pursuing forensic psychiatry fellowship, and more.

Barrington Hwang, MD, and Mikaela Miller, MD, MPH, discuss climate-related topics with Lise Van Susteren, MD. They specifically discuss reasons for going into psychiatry, the connection between climate and mental health, Dr. Van Susteren's role as an expert witness in a case against the government, climate advocacy, climate-aware psychotherapy, individual and collective agency, plant-based foods,...

Priya Gearin, MD, speaks with Yasmin Escobedo Lozoya, PhD, a neuroscientist who is currently conducting her postdoctoral fellowship research in Dr. Susan Dymecki's Laboratory in the Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School. They discuss Dr. Escobedo's work studying serotonergic circuits and their plasticity, other clinically relevant topics in neuroscience, and the future of the field. 

Barrington Hwang, MD, Raza Sagarwala, MD, and Evan Watkins discuss Concussions in Sports Psychiatry with Aaron Jeckell, MD. They specifically discuss Dr. Jeckell's expertise in concussions, common diagnoses, where to learn more, hazing, and other relevant sports psychiatry topics.

Priya Gearin, MD, and Barrington Hwang, MD, discuss highlights from the most recent issue of the AJP Residents' Journal. Listen as they review articles on SSRI-induced hypersexuality, neurosyphilis with psychosis, and more. 

Barrington Hwang, MD, and Julian Raffoul, MD, PhD, MBA, FACN, meet with A.J. Reid Finlayson, MD, DLFAPA, DFASAM, DFABAM, MMHC. They discuss the history of addiction in the United States, Dr. Finlayson's personal experiences with addiction and psychiatric disorders, his experiences working as a family physician and coroner and consequent transition to psychiatry, Freud and Halsted, and thoughts on...

Priya Gearin, MD, interviews Ken Duckworth, MD, Chief Medical Officer of the National Alliance on Mental Illness and Senior Medical Director for Behavioral Health for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts about his work with NAMI, careers in community psychiatry, and mental health parity. 

Bharat Sampathi, MD, interviews Noah Philip, MD from Alpert Medical School of Brown University on topics in interventional psychiatry and neuromodulation including electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), deep brain stimulation (DBS), and more. We also discuss some of Dr. Philip's latest cutting edge research in the f...

Join Drs. Priya Gearin, MD, Barrington Hwang, MD, and Bharat Sampathi, MD, as they comment on recent events, previous podcasts, upcoming podcasts, and highlight the newest AJP Residents' Journal Issue Call for Editors. https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/journal/ajp-rj

Barrington Hwang, MD, and Robert McKenzie, MD, interview Walter E. Wilson Jr., MD, MHA, on Black mental health. He specifically talks about trauma in child and adolescent populations, psychiatrists in schools, and further resources for learning as it pertains to both African-American mental health and in general. He also shares about his personal experience with police presence in his high school....

Barrington Hwang, MD, and Robert McKenzie, MD, interview Walter E. Wilson Jr., MD, MHA, on Black mental health. He specifically talks about vulnerable populations at a Federally Qualified Health Center, African-American mental health, the strategic role of the psychiatrist in advocacy, role of police officers and trauma on our societal mental health. Next episode, we plan to talk with Dr. Wilson a...

Bharat Sampathi, MD, and Priya Gearin, MD, interview Sydney Wetterstrom, a Division 1 women's volleyball player, on mental health in competitive sports. Sydney provides an athlete's perspective on mental illness and its effects on athletic performance, stigma towards mental health in collegiate and professional sports, and psychiatric medications affecting play. We also discuss Sydney's Student-At...

Priya Gearin, MD, interviews Edwin Raffi, MD, of the Massachusetts General Hospital's Center for Women's Mental Health on prevalence and treatment of mental illness during the perinatal period, career opportunities within perinatal and reproductive psychiatry, and more. 

Barrington Hwang, MD, interviews Terako Amison, MD, at Vanderbilt University Medical Center on the two variants of seasonal affective disorder, proposed etiologies, treatments including light therapy, and risk factors. Seasonal affective disorder is a subtype of major depressive disorder, bipolar I disorder, or bipolar II disorder.

Barrington Hwang, MD, and Julian Raffoul, MD, PhD, MBA, FACN, interview Jonathan Heldt, MD, at UCLA Health on how he got interested in writing, the publishing process, and his books Memorable Psychiatry, Memorable Psychopharmacology, and Memorable Neurology. Dr. Heldt is employed and compensated by the UCLA Health system and US Department of Veterans Affairs. He receives book royalties through Ama...

Bharat Sampathi, MD, interviews Rona Hu, MD, from Stanford University School of Medicine on her initiative Stanford CHIPAO (Communication Health Interactive for Parents of Adolescents and Others). We discuss her theatrical vignettes addressing parent-child conflict, mental health in immigrant families, and cultural psychiatry. https://www.stanfordchipao.com/

Barrington Hwang, MD, y Eric Zabriskie, MD, conversan sobre el sistema peruano de salud mental con Jose Alberto Arriola Vigo, MD, MPH, un profesor asistente de psiquiatría en University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. Específicamente, el doctor Arriola Vigo nos cuenta su camino a la especialidad de psiquiatría, las diferencias entre Perú y los Estados Unidos, y del sistema de salud ment...

Barrington Hwang, MD, and Eric Zabriskie, MD, discuss mental health care in Peru with Jose Alberto Arriola Vigo, MD, MPH, an assistant professor of psychiatry at University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. Dr. Arriola Vigo specifically discusses his path to psychiatry, differences in the practice of psychiatry, and the mental health care structure in Peru. The English version and Spanish...

Bharat Sampathi, MD, interviews Alyson Gorun, MD, from New York Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medicine on the practice of psychoanalysis and psychodynamic psychiatry, the history and future of these treatment modalities, comparisons with other forms of therapy, training opportunities, and more.

Priya Gearin, MD, interviews Margo Funk, MD, at Harvard South Shore Psychiatry Residency Program about QTc prolongation and psychotropic medications. Dr. Funk discusses the significance of the QTc interval, methods to calculate it, and considerations for clinical practice. 

Barrington Hwang, MD, and Julian Raffoul, MD, PhD, MBA, interview Sheryl Fleisch, MD at Vanderbilt University Medical Center on topics related to homeless populations in psychiatry. Dr. Fleisch discusses how she has integrated outreach to this underserved population into her career, structural barriers, memorable patient encounters, and considerations for those early in their career.