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Dr. Jeremy Musher Accepts American Medical AssociationCPT Panel's Educational Excellence Award on Behalf of theAmerican Psychiatric Association Jeremy S. Musher, MD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, accepted the American Medical Association (AMA) CPT Panel's Educational Excellence Award along with his colleague, David Nace, MD, Vice President and Medical Director, McKesson Health Solutions. The award is given in...

Clinician Educator Showcase Plenary Highlights Clinical Innovations Drs. Rasim Diler, LalithKumar Solai, Christopher Dobbelstein, Robert Hudak and Julie Kmiec field questions during a panel discussion at the 2013 Clinician Educator Showcase Collaboration between Department of Psychiatry clinician educators in the early stages of their careers and their experienced mentors is critical to the ongoing development and...

The Importance of Mentoring in the Clinician-Educator Pathway Holly A. Swartz, MD, Jody Glance, MD and James Tew, MD Mentoring is an essential component of career development for psychiatric faculty in the clinician-educator (C-E) pathway. In contrast to research faculty who routinely acquire a mentor in the context of their laboratory or clinical research work, most C-E faculty do not actively seek mentoring...

Psychiatric Characteristics of Homicide DefendantsMartone CA, Mulvey MD, Yang S, Nemoianu A, Shugarman R, and Soliman L. Most studies on mental disorder rates among perpetrators have been conducted in Europe, and have shown a higher occurrence of disorders in homicide offenders than in the general population. However, the applicability of these results to the US population is questionable. In addition, the results...

A Novel Approach for Developing and Interpreting Treatment Moderator Profiles in Randomized Clinical TrialsWallace ML, Frank E, and Kraemer HC Mental health practitioners need better methods for personalizing treatment selection for individual patients. In the treatment of depression, for example, initial treatments may succeed as infrequently as one-third of the time, with additional treatments increasing the...

NARSAD Young Investigator Awards The Department of Psychiatry is pleased to announce that the following individuals have been selected by the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation to receive NARSAD Young Investigator Awards: Ryan Logan, PhD Identifying Neurotherapeutic Epigenetic Targets for the Treatment of Bipolar DisorderDr. Ryan Logan earned his PhD in Biomedical Sciences at the University of Maine. A...