American Association of Chairs of Departments of Psychiatry · 2020-03-25 · Dr. Gottlieb provided an excellent presentation on current and future issues for Chairs of Psychiatry

I would like to start by thanking Jed Magen for his service as President this past year and for all he has done to advance our organization’s mission to have a larger impact in the field of psychiatry. This is an exciting time to be in academic psychiatry. Increasing numbers of medical students are choosing a career in psychiatry, making it more competitive to obtain a residency position than at anytime during my tenure as a chair. This larger applicant pool is welcome at a time when we are seeing an increasing need for psychiatric services. The challenge for us in academic psychiatry is to be able to meet this need by training more psychiatrists. This will entail advocating for more residency slots and ensuring that our departments have the resources to well prepare their trainees. The AACDP welcomes your involvement in our organization, which was created to help chairs provide academic based clinical care, research and education. The collegial meetings provide an opportunity to network with other chairs, share information, and develop leadership skills. The fall meeting was in Boston on September 6th and 7th. Jeffrey Geller, President Elect of the American Psychiatric Association, addressed the group and answered questions. Gary Cottlieb presented “The Current State of Health Care and Impact on Behavioral Health”. There also was an interactive panel discussion on “The Relationship Between Chair and Dean”. The committees on Education, Research, Advocacy, Clinical Enterprise and Programs met as well as the Executive Committee. Greg Dalack presented a lecture as the recipient of the Leadership Award. Your involvement in AACDP is welcome and encouraged. If you would like to join or wish further information about current committee openings please contact Frances Bell, our Executive Director. The spring meeting is in Philadelphia in April during the American Psychiatric Association 173rd Annual Meeting. The fall meeting will be at the APA Headquarters in Washington, DC on September 18th with an advocacy day on the Capitol Hill taking place the day before on September 17th arranged for us by the APA staff. Thank you for this opportunity to work with you during the coming year.

Timothy J. Soundy MD

P.O. 570218 • Dallas, TX 75357-0218 • Phone: 972-613-0985 • Email: [email protected] • www.AACDP.org

November 2019 Volume 3, Number 2

American Association of Chairs of Departments

of Psychiatry

President’s Message

Chairs’ Corner e-newsletter

In this issuePresident's Message ................................................................................................................................................................. Page 1

AACDP Leadership Award ......................................................................................................................................................... Page 2

AACDP Meeting Speakers ......................................................................................................................................................... Page 2

Welcome New Members .......................................................................................................................................................... Page 11

Liaison Report ......................................................................................................................................................................... Page 11

Committee Reports .................................................................................................................................................................. Page 12

Furture Meetings ..................................................................................................................................................................... Page 32

Executive Committee ............................................................................................................................................................... Page 32

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AACDP Leadership Award

Gregory Dalack, MDGregory Dalack, Chair of Psychiatry at University of Michigan and past president of AACDP was this year’s selection for the AACDP Leadership Award. Here is a summary of his presentation “Reflections on Leadership”, delivered at the AACDP meeting on September 6, 2019:

Dr. Dalack conveyed his deep gratitude to colleagues and the association for this recognition.

He then focused on personal reflections about his own journey to leadership opportunities, starting at the Ann Arbor VA as Mental Health Clinic chief, then as chief of the MH Service. He emphasized both the importance of taking risks in new leadership roles (“the timing is rarely perfect”), working with good teams, and sometimes leading from the middle- knowing when to let others bring forward good ideas and drive initiatives forward. He reflected on the twists and turns in his path that occurred when he tried to take advantage of transition opportunities. One particular transition opportunity came when the role of Associate Chair for Education was offered to him. This was a bit of a leap beyond his passion as an educator to learn more about education administration while advancing his own pedagogy. He commented that it was in this transition that he started to attend Association of Academic Psychiatry (AAP) meetings, and took the Master Educator sequence that AAP offers.

The next opportunity was to take on the department’s Vice Chair role a year later. Shortly after taking that role, his chair decided to step down and the opportunity to become interim chair presented. Excited trepidation led him to rise to this challenge, but not identify himself as a candidate for the permanent chair role until he had been interim for a year and “understood better not only what I knew, but what I did not know” about the chair role – emphasizing that it is important to take reasonable risks. He was selected as chair in 2010.

He commented on the stresses of leadership roles like ours: you are typically the recipient of complaints and disgruntlement, and much more rarely the recipient of faculty and staff acknowledgement and gratitude (“few folks say to their chair, I am happy and have everything I need…”). Obviously, we do better when our ego is not at stake. He conveyed his own sense of trying to “be like a duck” and let those comments “roll off your back like water” rather than taking them personally, working hard to solve problems because it is the right thing to do, not because you will be remembered for it.

He then engaged the audience in a discussion about the top 3-4 challenges we face as chairs in the next 5-10 years. For him, these were summarized as: enhancing Partnerships, in our own departments, our communities, etc.; embracing Paradigm Shifts, particularly in the way psychiatric care is delivered; emphasizing and supporting growth in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion; and taking a greater role in Advocacy for patients, cost-effective forms of treatment, reimbursement models, etc. at the local, state and federal levels. Finally, he encouraged those assembled to “Challenge yourself to do new things.” For him, in recent years, this included learning about Collaborative Care and becoming a psychiatric consultant to two clinics. More recently, he challenged himself to compete in a “mini-sprint” triathlon with family members.

He expressed profound gratitude for the support and collegial relationships that the AACDP has afforded him, and hoped he can continue to give to others in return for all that the association has given to him. Finally, he gave special thanks to his wife Amal for her support of him and his family throughout the journey.

He ended by saying: “the leadership road can be one you blaze, but also one where you occasionally follow the good advice


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of others. It is important not to have your identity totally locked up in any one role or set of activities. Continually challenge yourself in some way and remember to have fun with colleagues, trainees, family, friends!”

“I am deeply appreciative of your support and this very humbling and wonderful recognition. Thank you!”

Gary Gottlieb, MD

Dr. Gottlieb provided an excellent presentation on current and future issues for Chairs of Psychiatry leading behavioral health services.


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Petros Levounis, MD Summary:Not a Chair, Not a Dean: Leadership Careers for Academic Psyhiatrists Outside AcademiaTraditional leadership tracks for academic psychiatrists point in the direction of becoming residency training program director, chair of one’s department of psychiatry, or dean of the medical school. In this workshop, we will explore alternative leadership pathways that lead to equally, if not more, gratifying and meaningful careers. Government-appointed directors and elected officials, hospital senior managers, CEOs of medical professional organizations, research leaders in industry or National Institutes, advocacy champions, health-related innovators and entrepreneurs, forensic experts, artists, and media personalities are some examples of “thinking outside the box” possibilities for psychiatrists who have trained and excelled in academic environments.

Liaison Report:American Association of Medical Colleges Meeting in Phoenix, Arizona, Showcases Mental Health and Addiction Treatment

Welcome New Members:Adam Brenner, Julie Gentile, David Henderson, Israel Liberzon, Samantha Meltzer-Brody, Peggy Nopoulos, Edward Norris, James Patterson, Prameet Singh, Rihard Smith, Carol Timminga, John Wagner, and Sarah Wakefield


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Committee Reports:

Advocacy CommitteeThe committee has had 2 meetings by phone conference on July 8th and Nov 4th. We have decided to pursue a Legislative day for AACDP with congressional representatives. Our initial focus is psychiatric work force, residency spots and mental health parity. We recognize that there are many other organizations able to advocate effectively on many other aspects of mental health. We plan to liaise with the APA advocacy committee to ensure that there is minimal duplication of effort.

We plan to work towards an initial presentation in Washington, DC in conjunction with the APA meeting in Philadelphia in April 2020. We will be working closely with Craig Obey, Director of Governmental Relations at the APA. We will then follow up with another presentation in Washington, DC along with our fall AACDP meeting in September 2020.

We plan to conference at least every 2 months to develop and refine this agenda.

We appreciate any input from other members of the AACDP.

Thanks

Thad

Communications CommitteeHoward Liu was appointed to chair a new Communications Committee. The Committee will encourage Chairs and Departments of Psychiatry to develop professional Twitter accounts to share innovations, recognize achievements and share best practices. If you are interested in working on this committee, pleaase contact Howard: [email protected]

Program CommitteeThe Program Committee reviewed the date for the 2020 Spring Meeting, Friday, April 24 in Philadelphia.

There will be a new meeting plan and schedule for the Fall 2020 Meeting. We will be meeting at the APA Headquarters on Friday, September 18 for our program, with an Advocacy Day on Thursday, September 17. The APA Staff is working with us to set up the Advocacy Day so advance plans will be need to be made for your attendance.

Research CommitteeThe consensus of the research group was that we thought that we should generate a survey that would be a review of the state of the field combined with a needs assessment. The intent would be to use these data to create for Departments that did not have significant research infrastructure a mechanism for partnering with institutions that had more sophisticated research programs in order to help initiate a greater breadth of research throughout the AACDP membership.

Clinical Enterprise CommitteeThe Clinical Enterprise Committee intends to share Best Practices from our organizations as a way of building upon the value of AACDP to our members. Please share any programs with me from your Department that you would like us to broadcast to our Listserve on a once monthly or so basis. To start things off, I would like to share a model of care we have developed for the addiction treatment of patients hospitalized on a med/surg floor with sepsis secondary to injection drug use disorders. It is a collaborative program involving multiple Departments and disciplines. A detailed description begins on the next page. Please feel free to contact Dr. William Rea, Director of Addiction Psychiatry at Carilion for more information ( [email protected] )

We look forward to your comments and feedback!




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William S Rea MD

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Rapid prototyping of a service to treat comorbidsepsis and intravenous drug use

E: [email protected] | P:540-588-4008 Address: 2017 Jeff erson Street SW Roanoke VA 24014


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Future Meetings:

April 24, 2020Philadelphia, PA

September 17-18, 2020Washington, DC

Executive Committee:

President, Timothy Soundy, MDPresident Elect: Britta Ostermeyer, MDSecretary-Treasuer: Jair Soares, MDImmediate Past President: Jed Magen, DO

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American Association of Chairs of Departments of Psychiatry · 2020-03-25 · Dr. Gottlieb provided an excellent presentation on current and future issues for Chairs of Psychiatry