Welcome to the Association for Academic Psychiatry Podcast! This podcast series is designed to highlight topics relevant to academic psychiatrists worldwide.

Our third episode features a panel discussion about the humanities and psychiatry with Drs. Mary Blazek, Meg Chisolm, and David Elkin.

Dr. Blazek is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Michigan, where she directs the Geriatric Psychiatry Clinic and the Medical Humanities Path of Excellence. She holds a Master of Education in Health Professions from the Johns Hopkins School of Education and served as a Design Partner Fellow of the inaugural Harvard Macy Art Museum-based Health Professions Education Fellowship. She employs the arts to engage medical students at the interface between medicine and the humanities, enhance their development as emerging physicians, and promote wellness in physicians and patients.

Dr. Chisolm is Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Johns Hopkins University, with a secondary appointment in the department of Internal Medicine. She is a member of the Miller Coulson Academy of Clinical Excellence and the Director of the Paul McHugh Program for Human Flourishing where she uses the arts and humanities to explore the ‘big questions’ with medical learners. She completed the Harvard Macy Institute Art Museum-based Health Professions Education fellowship and is a certified Visual Thinking Strategies facilitator and coach.

Dr. Elkin is a clinical professor in the Department of Psychiatry at UCSF, co-coordinator for medical student education and co-director of the Consultation Liaison Service at ZSFG. He also heads the hospital's Physician Well-Being Committee, is an active member of the hospital's ethics committee, and serves as a physician sponsor for Schwartz Rounds. His areas of interest include education and pedagogy, critical thinking, ethics and the medical humanities.

For those interested in learning more, please check out the following resources:

To stay in touch, follow us on Twitter (@AAPsychiatry) and Instagram (@assocacadpsych). You can contact us by email at [email protected]. For more information, please visit our website at academicpsychiatry.org.

Welcome to the Association for Academic Psychiatry Podcast! This podcast series is designed to highlight topics relevant to academic psychiatrists worldwide.

Our third episode features a panel discussion about the humanities and psychiatry with Drs. Mary Blazek, Meg Chisolm, and David Elkin.

Dr. Blazek is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Michigan, where she directs the Geriatric Psychiatry Clinic and the Medical Humanities Path of Excellence. She holds a Master of Education in Health Professions from the Johns Hopkins School of Education and served as a Design Partner Fellow of the inaugural Harvard Macy Art Museum-based Health Professions Education Fellowship. She employs the arts to engage medical students at the interface between medicine and the humanities, enhance their development as emerging physicians, and promote wellness in physicians and patients.

Dr. Chisolm is Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Johns Hopkins University, with a secondary appointment in the department of Internal Medicine. She is a member of the Miller Coulson Academy of Clinical Excellence and the Director of the Paul McHugh Program for Human Flourishing where she uses the arts and humanities to explore the ‘big questions’ with medical learners. She completed the Harvard Macy Institute Art Museum-based Health Professions Education fellowship and is a certified Visual Thinking Strategies facilitator and coach.

Dr. Elkin is a clinical professor in the Department of Psychiatry at UCSF, co-coordinator for medical student education and co-director of the Consultation Liaison Service at ZSFG. He also heads the hospital's Physician Well-Being Committee, is an active member of the hospital's ethics committee, and serves as a physician sponsor for Schwartz Rounds. His areas of interest include education and pedagogy, critical thinking, ethics and the medical humanities.

For those interested in learning more, please check out the following resources:

To stay in touch, follow us on Twitter (@AAPsychiatry) and Instagram (@assocacadpsych). You can contact us by email at [email protected]. For more information, please visit our website at academicpsychiatry.org.

Welcome to the Association for Academic Psychiatry Podcast! This podcast series is designed to highlight topics relevant to academic psychiatrists worldwide.

Our second episode — hosted by AAP Communications Committee member Nikhita Singhal, a psychiatry resident at the University of Toronto — features a discussion about the importance of mentorship and an introduction to the AAP’s new mentorship program with Dr. Shaheen Darani, a clinician educator and assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto and staff psychiatrist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). Dr. Darani also sits on the executive board of the AAP, where she leads mentorship activities within the organization as Chair of the Career Development Committee.

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This episode would not have been possible without the mentorship and guidance of the AAP’s Communications Committee Co-Chair Dr. Ali Abbas Asghar-Ali, a geriatric psychiatrist at Baylor College of Medicine and staff physician at the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center.

To stay in touch, follow us on Twitter (@AAPsychiatry) and Instagram (@assocacadpsych). You can contact us by email at [email protected]. For more information, please visit our website at academicpsychiatry.org.

Welcome to the Association for Academic Psychiatry Podcast! This podcast series is designed to highlight topics relevant to academic psychiatrists worldwide.

Our first episode — hosted by the AAP’s Communications Committee Co-Chair, Dr. Ali Abbas Asghar-Ali, a geriatric psychiatrist at Baylor College of Medicine and staff physician at the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center— features a conversation on the intersection between climate change and mental health with Dr. Andreea Seritan, a geriatric psychiatrist and professor of clinical psychiatry and neurology at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Seritan co-founded the Climate Change and Mental Health Task Force in her department, which aims to educate psychiatrists, learners, colleagues in other disciplines, and the public on the mental health impacts of climate change.

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Audio editing for this episode was completed by Nikhita Singhal, a psychiatry resident at the University of Toronto and member of the AAP Communications Committee.

To stay in touch, follow us on Twitter (@AAPsychiatry) and Instagram (@assocacadpsych). You can contact us by email at [email protected]. For more information, please visit our website at academicpsychiatry.org.