AAGP Highlights the 2024 APA Annual Meeting May 4-8, New York, NY 

 Are you attending the upcoming APA Meeting in New York? Our leadership has identified these session of interest to our Geriatric Psychiatry community. Please be sure to find other AAGP Members and connect! 

 Below is a list of titles of sessions that may be of special interest for AAGP members. 

If you are interested, please use the APA Session Search to find the specific times and locations of these suggested sessions, many of which are presented by distinguished AAGP leaders.  

Saturday May 4, 2024 

  • “Building Growing and Thriving in Academic Careers” With a Focus on Our International Medical Graduates
  • 2024 Psychiatry Review Part 1
  • Alzheimer’s Disease and Cognitive Disorders in Geriatric Hispanic/ Latinos. Why Doesn’t “One Size Fits All” Approach Work? 

Sunday, May 5, 2024 

  • 2024 Psychiatry Review Part 2    
  • MindGames Masters: Subspecialty Review for the General Psychiatrist  
  • Lifelong Learning and ABPN Certification: How to Not Peak as You Finish Training 
  • Confronting Stigma and Bias Through the Arts: An Interactive Visual Thinking Strategies Session    
  • Financial Abuse of Older Adults: Screening, Prevention, and Interventions 
  • Journeys in Advocacy: You Can Be What You Can See 
  • Psychotherapies Targeting Social Determinants of Mental Health 
  • A Guide to Psychiatry Fellowship Applications 
  • Navigating Recent Advances in the Field of Cognitive Impairment and Dementia 
  • Does Psychiatry Need a New Epistemology? 

Monday, May 6, 2024 

  • Updates in Geriatric Psychiatry 
  •  A Clinician’s Guide to the Management of Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia in the Era of Boxed Warning 
  • Dementia or Primary Psychiatric Disorder? Early Diagnosis and Treatment of Neurocognitive Disorders in the Psychiatric Setting 
  • Interactive Case Workshop: Comprehensive Assessment of Older Adults With Substance Use 
  • Practicing Positive Psychiatry at Individual and Community Levels 
  • Medical Assistance in Dying and the Psychiatrist’s Role: An Overview 
  • Whole Health and Health Care: Realizing the Promise of the Biopsychosocial Model for Mental Disorders and Diversity 
  • Substance Use in Older Adults 
  • Abraham Halpern Humantarian Award Is It Really an Impossible Dream? The Social Psychiatric Integration of Religion, Spirituality and Humanism 

Tuesday, May 7, 2024  

  • Applying to Psychiatry Residencies: A Discussion With Residency Directors and Residents 
  • An Update From the ABPN: News You Can Use About Specialty Certification 
  • Golden Years to Golden Fears: Addressing Cybercrimes, Fraud, and Scams in the Geriatric Population 
  • Through Graying Hair and a Burning Planet: Climate Change, Aging and Psychiatry 
  • Where Davening and Dhikr Meet Dharma! Conceptualization and Scripture Informed Management of Anxiety Disorders in Judaism, Islam, and Hinduism 
  • Presidential Session: Altered Brain Inhibition and Cognitive Deficits in Brain Disorders and During Aging: Pathology and Hope for New Treatments 
  • Long Hauler Psychiatric Syndromes 
  • Religion, Spirituality, and Psychiatry: Hot Topics in 2024
  • Improving Global Mental Health: WPA Action Plan 2023-2026 

Wednesday, May 8, 2024  

  • Enhancing Brain Health and Well-Being in Older Adults: Innovations in Lifestyle Interventions 
  • Boomers to Zoomers: Bridging the Gap of Inter-Generational Crosstalk    
  • Advocacy and Human Rights in Older Adults With Neuropsychiatric Disorders  
  • Ageism in Healthcare: The Impact on Geriatric Mental Health and Needed Solutions 
  • Emerging Concepts in Difficult-to-Treat Late-Life Depression 
  • Addressing the “Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation” and Its Psychiatric Sequelae Among Rural Elderly With a Common-Sense Treatment Model That Works     
  • What Psychiatrists Should Know About Anti-Amyloid Therapy for Alzheimer’s Disease 
  • An Evidence-Based Approach to Psychopharmacology for Generalized Anxiety Disorder in Older Adults.   
  • The Science of Spiritual Experiences: Implications for Clinical Practice and for the Understanding of Mind 
  • It’s Not What You Said It’s How You Said It: Overcoming Challenges When Evaluating the Mental Status of Limited English Proficiency Patients 
  • American Indian Mental Health: Honoring Indigenous Wisdom and Culture in Promoting Resilience and Recovery  
  • Acquired ADHD as a Consequence of Digital Tech Addiction: Is This a Thing?  

 

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