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Upcoming Events
Out of the Darkness Walk Sept 20 at Tanglewood Park
 On Saturday, September 20, 2008, the Department of Psychiatry will sponsor a team of walkers in the Out of the Darkness event, to benefit the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. Friends and family (dogs included) are invited to participate at Tanglewood Park. Registration begins at 8:00 am and the 5K walk starts at 9:00 am. ›››› more...
Feature Story
Humanitarian and Medical Mission to Odessa, Ukraine
 Psychiatrist Dr. Stephen Kramer, Professor, Director of Adult Psychiatry Inpatient Services and Director of Neuropsychiatry and Forensic Service tells his story of a recent trip to Odessa, Ukraine, sponsored by Jewish Healthcare International (JHI).
For the second time in five years, Dr. Kramer, with his wife Rochelle, took a volunteer mission trip to the Ukraine. Established to enhance the quality of and increase access to healthcare services for vulnerable communities, JHI brings together healthcare volunteers from both the United States and Israel. Focusing primarily on the Former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, JHI has a proven success record of helping thousands of impoverished members of the Jewish community gain access to healthcare while improving the quality of healthcare for the entire community. ›››› more...
Grand Rounds
Psychiatry Grand Rounds brings expert speakers for monthly lectures to define concepts and identify/discuss new information in specific topics relevant to psychiatry. Join us as we review recent advances in psychiatric diagnosis, treatment and case management. For more information and current schedule, please go to Grand Rounds Schedule.
Faculty & Research News
 Eugene D. Mindel, M.D., Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, was awarded the "Loretta Y. Silvia Teaching Award" for clinical excellence, courage and compassion at the annual resident graduation dinner dance on Saturday evening, May 31, 2008. This annual award voted on and presented by the residents honors the memory of Dr. Silvia, a loved and respected member of the faculty for 17 years.
Dr. Mindel was also given the "Outstanding Supervisor Award," also voted on and presented by the residents.
 Dr. Liz Arnold, Ph.D., Assistant Professor's pilot test of a one-of-a kind program at preventing HIV infection among runaway adolescents was recently reported on Reuters News Service. The study marks the first use of the Strengths-Based Case Management for an adolescent population. "There is a narrow window of opportunity" for intervention before these youths become homeless when their risk of HIV infection and other negative outcomes rises dramatically. View press release.
 Dr. Burton Reifler was named the first Kate Mills Snider Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine. This Professorship is supported through the Geriatric Psychiatry Outreach (GO) Program, made possible by a generous gift from the Snider family in honor of their mother, Kate Mills Snider. The GO Program provides geriatric psychiatry housecalls for older persons with mobility limitations.
 The American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry (AAGP) has created a new AAGP Deirdre Johnston Award for Excellence and Innovation in Geriatric Mental Health Outreach Services to encourage programs to provide and/or expand services for meeting the mental health needs of the frail elderly in their homes. The association will grant $10,000 to a program based on its excellence and/or innovation in providing mental health services to older adults in the community.
This annual award is made possible by a generous gift from Arnold H. Snider to the Geriatric Mental Health Foundation, which with the association oversees the award. This award is named in honor of geriatric psychiatrist Deirdre Johnston, MBChB, MRCPsych, in gratitude for the care she provided to Kate Mills Snider, Mr. Snider’s mother. Mr. Snider and his wife, Katherine, have endowed the Kate Mills Snider Geropsychiatry Outreach Program and Professorship Fund within the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. View press release.
Residency Training News
- We are pleased to announce that our Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Program has been re-accredited by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology for 5 years.
- Our Psychiatry Endowment Fund has reached $50,000. We will immediately begin supporting the cost of membership in the American Psychiatric Association for all of our residents. For more information please see Psychiatry Education Fund.
- Our general and Child and Adolescent training program is currently recruiting. Those interested in the General Psychiatry program should contact Regina Williams at rewillia@wfubmc.edu.
- Those interested in the Child and Adolescent training program should contact Sheila Leach at saleach@wfubmc.edu.
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