In mid-November 2017, Drs. Henderson, Borba, Durham and Gutner travelled to Bogota, Colombia where they are working to establish a collaboration with Universidad de los Andes and its teaching hospital, Fundacion Santa Fe de Bogota. This growing collaboration seeks to identify and implement collaborative teaching initiatives including the development of a psychiatry residency program at the Universidad […]
Andrew Clark, Director of Medical Student Education, was recently interviewed in a piece on solitary confinement for teenagers in The New Yorker magazine. The article profiles Jermaine Gotham, whose stints in solitary confinement, starting at the age of sixteen, had profound implications due to his age as well as his experience with trauma and mental health. Read the New Yorker article here. […]
In December 2017, Dr. Lisa Fortuna, the Director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, went on a medical mission trip to Puerto Rico. Lindsay Kalter at the Boston Herald published Dr Fortuna’s description of her trip, available here. Below is an excerpt. “The people in the rural areas don’t have access to sufficient medical care. Many […]
Chris Streeter, MD, was a VIP speaker at the third annual International Conference on Yoga in New Dehli, India. This year’s conference theme was “Yoga for Wellness.” Yoga experts, teachers, researchers and policy makers from 44 countries participated in the conference, which covered recent research trends regardng yoga in integrated medicine, non communicable diseases, mental health, women’s health, cancer, […]
Early this March, Dr. David Henderson and Dr. Christina Borba joined Dr. Brian Jack, Professor and Chair of the Department of Family Medicine at the Boston University School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center on a trip to Lesotho. Lesotho is a small, mountainous country in southern Africa that is entirely surrounded by South Africa […]
On June 16, 2017, American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry (AAAP) President John A. Renner, Jr., and AAAP CEO Kathryn Cates-Wessel met with U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price in a roundtable discussion on strategy and policy options to address the opioid healthcare crisis. DATA 2000 organizations are the organizations authorized to provide waiver training […]
Tasha Ferguson, LMHC and Clinical Director of the BMC Emergency Services Program, participated in a presentation on managing individuals experiencing behavioral health crisis. The meeting was hosted by the Consulate General of Canada, Boston, and Tasha was invited by the Canadian Consular staff at the recommendation of DMH. Individuals in attendance included representatives from the […]
The American Psychiatric Association selected the National Consortium of Torture Treatment Programs (NCTTP) as the recipient of the 2017 Human Rights Award. NCTTP President, Lin Piwowarczyk, MD, MPH, accepted this award on behalf of the NCTTP at the APA Annual Meeting in San Diego. “The APA Human Rights Award recognizes extraordinary efforts by individuals and […]
The Boston University and Boston Medical Center Department of Psychiatry, Global and Local Center for Mental Health Disparities is engaged in an ongoing partnership with the University of Liberia, A.M. Dogliotti College of Medicine to increase mental health capacity and improve the quality of mental health care in Liberia. This partnership, led by Drs. Henderson […]
