Priya Gearin, MD, speaks with Yasmin Escobedo Lozoya, PhD, a neuroscientist who is currently conducting her postdoctoral fellowship research in the Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School. They discuss Dr. Escobedo's work studying serotonergic circuits and their plasticity, other clinically relevant topics in neuroscience, and the future of the field. 

Barrington Hwang, MD, Raza Sagarwala, MD, and Evan Watkins discuss Concussions in Sports Psychiatry with Aaron Jeckell, MD. They specifically discuss Dr. Jeckell’s expertise in concussions, common diagnoses, where to learn more, hazing, and other relevant sports psychiatry topics.

Priya Gearin, MD, and Barrington Hwang, MD, discuss highlights from the most recent issue of the AJP Residents' Journal. Listen as they review articles on SSRI-induced hypersexuality, neurosyphilis with psychosis, and more. 

Barrington Hwang, MD, and Julian Raffoul, MD, PhD, MBA, FACN, meet with A.J. Reid Finlayson, MD, DLFAPA, DFASAM, DFABAM, MMHC. They discuss the history of addiction in the United States, Dr. Finlayson’s personal experiences with addiction and psychiatric disorders, his experiences working as a family physician and coroner and consequent transition to psychiatry, Freud and Halsted, and the future of addiction. https://medschool.vanderbilt.edu/vanderbilt-medicine/one-psychiatrists-journey/ 

Priya Gearin, MD, interviews Ken Duckworth, MD, Chief Medical Officer of the National Alliance on Mental Illness and Senior Medical Director for Behavioral Health for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts about his work with NAMI, careers in community psychiatry, and mental health parity. 

Bharat Sampathi, MD, interviews Noah Philip, MD from Alpert Medical School of Brown University on topics in interventional psychiatry and neuromodulation including electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), deep brain stimulation (DBS), and more. We also discuss some of Dr. Philip’s cutting edge research in the field.

Join Drs. Priya Gearin, MD, Barrington Hwang, MD, and Bharat Sampathi, MD, as they comment on recent events, previous podcasts, upcoming podcasts, and highlight the newest AJP Residents’ Journal Issue Call for Editors. https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/journal/ajp-rj

Barrington Hwang, MD, and Robert McKenzie, MD, interview Walter E. Wilson Jr., MD, MHA, on Black mental health. He specifically talks about trauma in child/adolescent populations, psychiatrists in schools, and further resources for learning regarding both African-American mental health and in general. He also shares about his personal experience with police presence in his high school. Check out our latest December 2020 issue. Happy holidays and we look forward to interacting with you in the...

Barrington Hwang, MD, and Robert Mckenzie, MD, interview Walter E. Wilson Jr., MD, MHA, on Black mental health. He specifically talks about vulnerable populations at a Federally Qualified Health Center, African-American mental health, the strategic role of the psychiatrist in advocacy, role of police officers and trauma on our societal mental health. Next episode, we plan to talk with Dr. Wilson about schools and child/adolescent mental health.

Bharat Sampathi, MD, and Priya Gearin, MD, interview Sydney Wetterstrom, a Division 1 women's volleyball player, on mental health in competitive sports. Sydney provides an athlete's perspective on mental illness and its effects on athletic performance, stigma towards mental health in collegiate and professional sports, and psychiatric medications affecting play. We also discuss Sydney's Student-Athlete Sexual Health (SASH) initiative and more. This serves as part two of our Sports Psychiatry...

Priya Gearin, MD, interviews Edwin Raffi, MD, of the Massachusetts General Hospital's Center for Women's Mental Health on prevalence and treatment of mental illness during the perinatal period, career opportunities within perinatal and reproductive psychiatry, and more. 

Barrington Hwang, MD, interviews Terako Amison, MD, at Vanderbilt University Medical Center on the two variants of seasonal affective disorder, proposed etiologies, treatments including light therapy, and risk factors. Seasonal affective disorder is a subtype of major depressive disorder, bipolar I disorder, or bipolar II disorder.

Barrington Hwang, MD, and Julian Raffoul, MD, PhD, MBA, FACN, interview Jonathan Heldt, MD, at UCLA Health on how he got interested in writing, the publishing process, and his books Memorable Psychiatry, Memorable Psychopharmacology, and Memorable Neurology. Dr. Heldt is employed and compensated by the UCLA Health system and US Department of Veterans Affairs. He receives book royalties through Amazon Kindle Direct for every sale, otherwise has no other financial to disclose....

Bharat Sampathi, MD, interviews Rona Hu, MD, from Stanford University School of Medicine on her initiative Stanford CHIPAO (Communication Health Interactive for Parents of Adolescents and Others). We discuss her theatrical vignettes addressing parent-child conflict, mental health in immigrant families, and cultural psychiatry. https://www.stanfordchipao.com/

Barrington Hwang, MD, y Eric Zabriskie, MD, conversan sobre el sistema peruano de salud mental con Jose Alberto Arriola Vigo, MD, MPH, un profesor asistente de psiquiatría en University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. Específicamente, el doctor Arriola Vigo nos cuenta su camino a la especialidad de psiquiatría, las diferencias entre Perú y los Estados Unidos, y del sistema de salud mental en Perú. La versión en idioma español e inglés podrían tener pequeñas diferencias.

Barrington Hwang, MD, and Eric Zabriskie, MD, discuss mental health care in Peru with Jose Alberto Arriola Vigo, MD, MPH, an assistant professor of psychiatry at University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. Dr. Arriola Vigo specifically discusses his path to psychiatry, differences in the practice of psychiatry, and the mental health care structure in Peru. The English version and Spanish version may have slight differences. Most recent AJP RJ Issue:...

Bharat Sampathi, MD, interviews Alyson Gorun, MD, from New York Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medicine on the practice of psychoanalysis and psychodynamic psychiatry, the history and future of these treatment modalities, comparisons with other forms of therapy, training opportunities, and more.

Priya Gearin, MD, interviews Margo Funk, MD, at Harvard South Shore Psychiatry Residency Program about QTc prolongation and psychotropic medications. Dr. Funk discusses the significance of the QTc interval, methods to calculate it, and considerations for clinical practice. 

Barrington Hwang, MD, and Julian Raffoul, MD, PhD, MBA, interview Sheryl Fleisch, MD at Vanderbilt University Medical Center on topics related to homeless populations in psychiatry. Dr. Fleisch discusses how she has integrated outreach to this underserved population into her career, structural barriers, memorable patient encounters, and considerations for those early in their career.

Bharat Sampathi, MD, interviews Sports Psychiatrist Bettina Frankel, MD, from Northwestern University on topics in sports psychiatry including mental illness in college athletes, its effects on athletic performance, treatment options and their side effects for common diagnoses, efforts to increase awareness, ethical considerations, opportunities for interested trainees, and more.

Join Drs. Bharat Sampathi, MD, Priya Gearin, MD, and Barrington Hwang, MD, as they introduce themselves as the new media editors of the AJP Residents' Journal and briefly discuss upcoming podcasts and systemic racism in light of recent events. 

Aaron Wolfgang, MD and Sean Wilkes, MD discuss Military Psychiatry. 2 of 2 special episodes to go along with our June 2020 AJP-RJ release.

Aaron Wolfgang, MD and Sean Wilkes, MD interview Alexander Kaplan, MD about an Army Psychiatrist's special mission during the COVID-19 crisis in NYC. 1 of 2 special episodes to go along with our June 2020 AJP-RJ release.

Rachel Dillinger, MD interviews Neil Sandson, MD on important drug to drug interactions and how to get started learning this important area of clinical psychopharmacology.

Shapir Rosenberg, MD interviews Rachel Dillinger, MD and they discuss residency during COVID-19 and lessons learned from editing the journal.