Medical Psychiatry: Comprehensive Update Conference 2026: Program & Speakers

Felicia Smith, MD

How to conduct effective psychiatric consultations on medical and surgical floors, covering the practical craft of the consult itself.

Michelle Jacobo, PhD

Using psychosocial formulation to guide interventions for patients whose medical and psychological problems intersect in complicated ways.

Jhilam Biswas, MD

Navigating the ethics and law of decision-making capacity evaluations when the answer is not clear-cut.

Naomi Schmelzer, MD

Approaches to de-escalating and pharmacologically managing agitated patients on medical units.

Nathan Praschan, MD, MPH

Recognition and treatment of the major life-threatening neuropsychiatric syndromes seen in hospitalized patients.

Sejal Shah, MD

Caring for psychiatric patients boarding in emergency departments while awaiting inpatient placement.

Natasha Fedotova, MD, PhD

A practical framework for evaluating suicide risk in medically ill patients.

Usman Ghumman, MD, MPH

Strategies for managing behavioral crises in hospitalized patients with developmental disabilities across the pediatric-to-young-adult span.

Christopher Celano, MD

The essentials of reading electrocardiograms that consultation-liaison psychiatrists need for safe prescribing.

Margo Funk, MD, MA

Case-based approaches to weighing and reducing QTc-related arrhythmia risk in psychiatric prescribing.

Scott Beach, MD

A survey of which psychotropic and non-psychiatric medications prolong the QT interval and by how much.

Maureen Cassady, MD

Psychiatric assessment and management issues specific to patients in intensive care units.

Linda Herrera Santos, MD, PhD

What drives delirium biologically and how to prevent and treat it in hospitalized patients.

Polina Teslyar, MD

Weighing risks and benefits of psychotropic medications during pregnancy.

Youngjung Rachel Kim, MD, PhD

Managing the medical complications and inpatient care of patients with severe eating disorders.

Sarah Bernstein, MD

Treatment approaches for pregnant patients with substance use disorders, balancing maternal and fetal considerations.

Hadine Joffe, MD, MSc

Recognizing and treating premenstrual dysphoric disorder and mood symptoms of the menopausal transition.

Fremonta Meyer, MD

How to conduct pre-transplant psychiatric and psychosocial evaluations of organ transplant candidates.

Adrienne Taylor, MD

Psychiatric care of patients recovering from severe burns and traumatic injuries.

Nomi Levy-Carrick, MD · MPhil

Applying trauma-informed principles to reduce re-traumatization during inpatient medical care.

David B. Hathaway, MD

Initiating and managing addiction treatment for patients hospitalized on medical services.

Joji Suzuki, MD

Emerging evidence on GLP-1 receptor agonists as potential treatments for addiction.

Carlos Fernandez-Robles, MD, MBA

Foundations of psychiatric care for patients with cancer.

Zachary Sager, MD

Psychiatric contributions to care of patients approaching the end of life.

Damien Miran, MD

Understanding and addressing cognitive impairment associated with cancer treatment.

John Peteet, MD

Clinical, ethical, and legal dimensions of medical aid in dying for the psychiatric consultant.

Ashwini Nadkarni, MD

The interplay between GI illness and psychiatric symptoms, and how to manage both.

Catherine Gonzalez, MD

Psychiatric presentations of endocrine and metabolic disease and their management.

Rishab Gupta, MD

How inflammatory and autoimmune conditions produce neuropsychiatric symptoms and what to do about them.

John Grimaldi, MD

Psychiatric complications of HIV and other infections, including drug-drug interaction concerns.

Scott McGinnis, MD

Practical bedside evaluation of cognitive impairment and dementia in the general hospital.

Daniel Weisholtz, MD

Neuropsychiatric aspects of epilepsy and cerebrovascular disease.

Stanley Lyndon, MD

Psychiatric symptoms in Parkinson disease and other movement disorders and their treatment.

Gaston Baslet, MD

Diagnosing and treating functional neurological and somatic symptom disorders.

Claire Twark, MD

On-demand mini-course on managing patients where chronic pain and substance use disorders overlap.

Roxanne Sholevar, MD

On-demand mini-course on advising patients about medical cannabis.