Teaching

Teaching of Students in Courses:

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

1986 – 1986    “Introductory Ethics,” Department of Philosophy

1987 – 1987    “Introductory Logic,” Department of Philosophy

1991 – 1991    “Philosophical Approaches to the Study of Religion,” Department of Religious Studies

1992 – 1992    “Introduction to the Psychology of Religion,” Department of Religious Studies

Smith College

1997 – 2004    “Literature and Religion,” Department of Religious Studies

1999 – 2002    ”The Psychology of Religion,” Department of Religious Studies

Mt. Holyoke College

1998 – 1999    ”The Varieties of Religious Experience,” Department of Religious Studies,

Harvard College

2009-2020   “The Psychology of Religion,” Freshman Seminar,

Harvard University

1993 – 1995    “The Psychology of Religion,” Harvard Divinity School

1994 – 1996    “Religion and Literature,” Harvard University Extension School

Harvard Medical School

2004- 2020      Psychiatry Preceptor, Cambridge Integrated Clerkship (CIC).

2004- 2014      Outpatient Psychiatry Preceptor, Core Clerkship in Psychiatry (PS500M.6). Introduction to outpatient care of psychiatry patients

2005- 2016      Introduction to the Profession

2006-2020       Advanced Psychiatry Clerkship in a Community Hospital (PS509M.6)

2011- 2015      Medical Ethics and Professionalism (MA750). Tutorial

2015-2016       Into the Wild Blue Yonder—Preparing for Internship (IN855). Lecture

2015- 2020      Essentials of the Profession (PWY120).  Seminar

2015-2020       Critical Reading of Contemporary Books in Bioethics (Beth 753).  Seminar

2015-2020       Health and Human Rights (Beth 751).  Seminar, 6-20 students, semester long course.

2016- 2020      Bioethics Advocacy (Beth 723).  Seminar,

2017-2019       Scholars in Medicine (SIM 550).  Reviewer of scholarly project,

2019- 2020      Medicine and Literature (PS745.6).  Elective seminar

Baylor College of Medicine

2021-               Medical Ethics 415:  Health Policy Analysis

Formal Teaching of Residents, Clinical Fellows and Research Fellows:

Cambridge Health Alliance

1995 – 2020    “Ethics in Psychiatry,” Fourth Year Adult Psychiatry Resident Seminar

2005 – 2021    “Ethical Issues in Child Psychiatry,” Core Seminar, Child Psychiatry Fellowship,

2005 –              “Child Psychiatry and the Pharmaceutical Industry,” Transition to Practice Seminar, Child Psychiatry Fellowship Program2005 –              “Psychopharmacology for Non-Physicians,” Introduction to Social Work Seminar. 18 Social Work Interns, 2 hours.

2006 – 2016    “Cross-Cultural Issues and Religious Diversity,” guest presentation in John Chirban’s “Spirituality and Psychiatry” seminar

2007 –  2020    “Medical Ethics and Professionalism” PGY 1 Adult Psychiatry Resident Transition to Psychiatry Seminar

Local Invited Presentations

No Presentations Sponsored by Outside Entities

1994                “The Use of Hypnosis in a Depressed, Suicidal Patient,” guest lecture in Dr. John Mack’s seminar “Use of Non-Ordinary States of Consciousness in Psychotherapy,” January 14/28, 1994.

1995                “Nietzsche on Ambivalence and the Limitations of Rationality:  Implications for Psychotherapy,” Grand Rounds, Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge Health Alliance June 7, 1995.

1997                “Physician Assisted Suicide,” Franklin Medical Center, Greenfield, MA, May 11, 1997.

1998                “Uncertainty and Truth Telling in Medicine:  Narrative Implications,” Baystate Medical Center Ethics Curriculum/Tufts Medical School, Springfield, MA, January 22, 1998.

1998                “Ethics in Psychiatry,” Baystate Medical Center Ethics Curriculum/Tufts Medical School, Springfield, MA, May 19, 1998.

1999                “Truth-Telling in Medicine,” Baystate Medical Center Ethics Curriculum/Tufts Medical School, Springfield, MA, April 6, 1999.

2005                “Alien Encounter?” guest presentation in Dr. Inge Hoffmann’s seminar “From Depression toward Creativity,” Cambridge Health Alliance May 18, 2005.

2006                “Top Ten Ways to Receive an Invitation from the Board of Registration in Medicine” (with Scott Liebert, Esq.), BIDMC/Harvard Pathology, Grand Rounds, February 2, 2006.

2006                “Keeping the Healer Healthy,” Grand Rounds, Lemuel Shattuck Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, April 11, 2006.

2006                “Physician Well-Being,” Grand Rounds, Department of Medicine, Newton-Wellesley Hospital, Newton, MA, November 29, 2006.

2007                “Physicians Health Matters,” Grand Rounds, Department of Medicine. Cambridge Health Alliance, Cambridge, MA, July 25, 2007.

2007                “Disruptive Behaviors in the Workplace,” Grand Rounds, Lemuel Shattuck Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, October 30, 2007.

2008                “Transforming Violence:  A Play Reading of Ariel Dorfman’s Death & the Maiden,” panelist, Victims of Violence/Cambridge Health Alliance/Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA, February 13, 2008.

2008                “Physician Health Matters,” Grand Rounds, Department of Medicine, Newton-Wellesley Hospital, Newton, MA, November 5, 2008.

2010                “Adolescent Substance Abuse and Depression,” Mini Grand Rounds, Department of Medicine, Children’s Hospital Boston, Boston, MA, March 12, 2010.

2010                “Big Pharma and Medicine:  An Unholy Alliance,” Collaborative Office Rounds, Departments of Medicine and Psychiatry, Children’s Hospital Boston, Boston, MA, April 16, 2010.

2011                “Physician Health and Well-Being,” Cambridge Health Alliance, April 28, 2011

2012                “Forbidden Talk:  Race, Class, Religion, and Ethnicity in Psychiatric Practice.”  Sobremesa.  Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.  Boston.  November 16, 2012

2012                “Alcohol and Drug Abuse on Campus —Update and New Research,” at the Critical Issues & New Research in Mental Health, Drug and Alcohol Abuse, and Crime on College Campuses Conference, Harvard Health Publications/Harvard Medical School, April 9, 2012

2013                Psychologists’ Knowledge of Human Rights and Military Medical Ethics.  Global Health and Human Rights.  Cambridge Health Alliance.   Cambridge, MA.  February 25, 2013

2013                Mental Health on Campus and Beyond.  Undergraduate Psychiatry Interest Group.  Harvard College.   Cambridge, MA.  March 7, 2013

2013                Treating ADHD and other Mental Health Issues in the Context of Substance Abuse, Adolescent Medicine Seminar, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA.  March 26, 2013.

2013                Relationships with Big Pharma in Psychiatric Practice.  Transition to Practice Seminar.  Child Psychiatry Fellowship, Cambridge Health Alliance, Cambridge, MA.  May 22, 2013.

2013                “Clangings:  A Poetry Reading by Poet Steven Cramer,” discussant, Cambridge Health Alliance, Cambridge, MA.  September 25, 2013.

2013                “Substance Abuse in Healthcare Professionals:  Ethical and Legal Considerations,” Addiction Medicine:  A Case-Based Approach to Managing Addiction in Special Populations and Related Issues,” Harvard Medical School, Department of Continuing Education, Boston, MA, October 12, 2013

2015                “Physician Participation in Torture,” Grand Rounds, Department of Medicine.                               Cambridge Health Alliance, Cambridge, MA, January 21, 2015

2015                “Research Based Advocacy in Psychiatry,” Medical Advocacy Elective, Department of Medicine, Cambridge Health Alliance, Cambridge, MA, February 13 , 2015

2015                “Can’t or Won’t Be Discharged,” Case Commentator, Harvard Ethics Consortium, sponsored by the Harvard Center for Bioethics, Boston, MA, April 3, 2015.

2015                “Seeking Refuge:  Psychological Evaluations in Asylum Cases and the Asylum Clinic at CHA,” Grand Rounds, Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge Health Alliance, October 7, 2015.

2015                “Explore Careers in Global Health,” Harvard College Office of Career Services,

Cambridge, MA, November 5, 2015

2016                “Deception in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Psychogenic Non-epileptic Seizures,” Center for Bioethics, Harvard Medical School,

Boston, MA, February 4, 2016

2016                “Ethics in Psychiatry,” Project Success, Harvard Medical School,

Boston, MA, July 8, 2016

2016                “White Coat, Black Hat,” Moderator, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. September 22, 2016

2016                “How Doctors Feel,” Commentator, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.  December 1, 2016

2017                “Human Rights at Risk,” Fraiman Ethics Lecture, Cambridge Health Alliance/Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA. May 3, 2017

2017                “Introduction to Forensic Evaluation and Documentation of Trauma in Asylum Seekers:  A Physicians for Human Rights Asylum Network Training,” Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.  May 6, 2017

2017                “Health Care Workers in Prisons,” Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.  December 1, 2017

2017                “The Importance of Medical and Psychiatric Evaluations of Asylum Seekers,” Global Health and Human Rights Clinic, Cambridge Health Alliance/Harvard Medical School, Somerville, MA. Dec 18, 2017

2018                “Performing Psychiatric Evaluations for Asylum Seekers,” Asylum Clinic, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. Jan 22, 2018

2018                “Ethics and Professionalism for Pathologists,” Department of Pathology, Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.  March 30, 2018

2018                “Annual Physicians for Human Rights Asylum Network Training,” Harvard Student Human Rights Collaborative (in conjunction with the MGH Asylum Clinic and PHR), Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.  April 28, 2018

2018                “Clinician Burnout,” Grand Rounds, Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge Health Alliance, May 2, 2018.

2018                “Medical Ethics in Primary Care Practice,” Student Leadership Committee of the HMS Center for Primary Care, May 30, 2018.

2018                “Human Rights in Health and Science,” Harvard Clinical Bioethics Course, June 6, 2018.

2018                “Bioethics and Genomics,” Harvard Clinical Bioethics Course, June 7, 2018.

2018                “Locking Arms with Asylum Seekers,” Grand Rounds, Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge Health Alliance, October 2, 2018.

2018                “Locking Arms with Asylum Seekers:  The Case for Promoting Immigration in the US,” Asylum Network Symposium: Lessons Learned in the Anti-Immigrant Era, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.  October 20, 2018

2018                “Introduction to Forensic Psychiatric Evaluations,” PHR Asylum Network Training, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.  October 21, 2018

2018                “Psychiatric Forensic Evaluations:  Affidavit Writing,” PHR Asylum Network Training, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.  October 21, 2018

2019                “Harvard Association for US-China Relations Dean’s List Panel,” Harvard College, Cambridge, MA.  February 13, 2019

2019                “Health Insurance Companies Place Profits Ahead of our Patients’ Well-Being,” Grand Rounds, Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge Health Alliance, May 1, 2019.

2019                “Engaging Emerging Ethical Contexts:  A Discussion on Building Moral Community at CHA,” Discussant, Grand Rounds, Department of Medicine, Cambridge Health Alliance, May 15, 2019

2019                “Physician Support During Traumatic Events,” Grand Rounds, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Cambridge Health Alliance, June 6, 2019

2019                “Introduction to Forensic Psychiatric Evaluations,” PHR Asylum Network Training, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.  September 8, 2019

2019                “Interdisciplinary Collaboration in the Asylum Process,” PHR Asylum Network Training, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.  September 8, 2019

2019                “Psychiatric Forensic Evaluations:  Affidavit Writing,” PHR Asylum Network Training, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.  September 8, 2019

2019                “From The Front Lines of the Immigration Debate: How to Get Started Performing Mental Health Evaluations for Asylum Seekers,” Asylum Clinic, Cambridge Health Alliance, Cambridge, MA.  October 21, 2019

2019                “Harvard Community of Humanists, Atheists and Agnostics,” Harvard College, Cambridge, MA.  November 20, 2019

2019                “Medical Ethics and Professionalism,” Department of Pathology, Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.  December 13, 2019

2019                “Psychiatric Evaluations and Affidavit Writing in Asylum Cases,” Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.  December 13, 2019

2020                “Addressing the Public Health Crisis at Border Detention Centers,” Health Policy and Bioethics Consortium, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.  May 8, 2020

2020                “Applied Research:  Using Data to Drive Policy Change,” Medical Ethics 415, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX.  December 15, 2020

2020                “Reflections on Drug Use by Physicians and their Patients,” Grand Rounds, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX.  January 8, 2021

2020                “Is my Doctor Impaired?  Practical and Ethical Considerations when Assessing and Treating Possible Physician Impairment,” Grand Rounds, Department of Psychiatry, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX.  January 27, 2021

Regional, National, and International Invited Teaching and Presentations

Regional

1995                “The Human Impact of Managed Care,” Massachusetts Health Decisions:  Bioethics Cooperative, Mansfield, MA, December 9, 1995.

1996                “The Impact of Managed Care on Providers as Persons,” 9th Annual New England Conference of Not-For-Profit Providers of Homes and Services to Older People, Newport, RI, May 30, 1996.

1996                “Balancing Stories and Principles:  The Embodied Nature of Ethical Deliberations,” Massachusetts Health Decisions:  Bioethics             Cooperative:  An Intensive Introduction to Health Care Ethics, Sharon, MA, October 3, 1996.

1997                “The Limitations of Psychiatry:  Legal and Philosophical Considerations,” Western New England College School of Law, Springfield, MA, October 22, 1997.

1998                “The Boundaries of Normality:  Psychological, Philosophical, and Narrative Aspects of Religious Delusions,” Five College Faculty Seminar Series in the Study of Religion, South Hadley, MA, March 26, 1998.

1998                “Managed Mental Health Care,” University of Massachusetts School of Management, Amherst, MA, April 23, 1998.

1999                “Ethical Issues in Managed Care,” Boundary Violations: How to Avoid the Slippery Slope, Mass Medical Society and the Health Law Section of the Massachusetts Bar Association, March 10, 1999.

2000                “Compromising Ourselves:  Modern Healthcare,” Baystate Medical Center Ethics Curriculum/Tufts Medical School, Springfield, MA, April 18, 2000.

2000                “Confidentiality,” Baystate Medical Center Ethics Curriculum/ Tufts Medical School, Springfield, MA , November 21, 2000.

2001                “Humanistic Concerns in Psychiatry,” Baystate Medical Center Ethics Curriculum/Tufts Medical School, Springfield, MA, September 18, 2001.

2002                “Narrative Aspects of a Physician-Patient Encounter,” Baystate Medical Center Ethics Curriculum/Tufts Medical School, Springfield, MA, March 19, 2002.

2003                “Ethical Issues Concerning Access to Health Care,” Baystate Medical Center Ethics Curriculum/Tufts Medical School, Springfield, MA, April 15, 2003.

2003                “Compromising Positions, Compromised Persons,” Baystate Medical Center Ethics Curriculum/Tufts Medical School, Springfield, MA, December 16, 2003.

2004                “Ethical Issues Surrounding Physician Well-Being,”, Ethical Issues in Medicine curriculum for 3rd and 4th year Tufts medical students, Baystate Medical Center, the Western Campus of Tufts Medical School, Springfield, MA, December 8, 2004.

2004                “Assessing, Monitoring, and Supporting Physicians with Addictive Disorders,” Seventeenth Cape Cod Symposium on Addictions, Hyannis, MA, September 11, 2004.

2004                “Supporting Physician Health,” Grand Rounds, Department of Medicine, Cape Cod Hospital, Falmouth, MA, November 23, 2004.

2005                “Keeping the Healer Healthy:  Issues in Physician Health,” Grand Rounds, Department of Medicine. Jordan Hospital, Plymouth, MA, February 11, 2005.

2005                “Caregivers in Need:  Ethical Issues and Concerns,” Baystate Medical Center Ethics Curriculum/Tufts Medical School, Springfield, MA, March 15, 2005.

2005                “Risk Management:  Physicians Helping Physicians,” Grand Rounds, Department of Medicine, South Coast St. Luke’s Hospital, New Bedford, MA, May 19, 2005.

2005                “Keeping the Healer Healthy:  Issues in Physician Health,” Grand Rounds, Department of Medicine, Charleton Hospital, Fall River, MA, November 8, 2005.

2006                “Assessing and Helping Physicians at Risk,” Grand Rounds, Department of Medicine, Milton Hospital, Milton, MA, January 10, 2006.

2006                “Physician Health Matters,” Grand Rounds, Department of Psychiatry, Taunton State Hospital, Taunton, MA, January 23, 2006.

2006                “Ethical Issues and Concerns about Medical Student Health,” Baystate Medical Center Ethics Curriculum/Tufts Medical School, Springfield, MA, March 29, 2006.

2006                “Keeping the Healer Healthy:  Issues in Physician Health,” Grand Rounds, Department of Medicine. Jordan Hospital, Plymouth, MA, May 5, 2006.

2006                “Original Research:  US Medical Student Knowledge and Attitudes Regarding the Geneva Conventions and Military Medical Ethics,” Baystate Medical Center/Tufts Medical School, Ethics Grand Rounds, Springfield, MA, May 16, 2006.

2006                “Wellness Workshop,” Entire Class of First Year Medical Students, Boston University Medical School, Boston, September 19, 2006

2007                “Physician Well-Being,” Grand Rounds, Department of Medicine, Milford Regional Hospital, Milford, MA, January 30, 2007.

2007                “Ethical Issues as Pertinent to Medical Student Health,” Baystate Medical Center Ethics Curriculum/Tufts Medical School, Springfield, MA, May 30, 2007.

2007                “Physicians Helping Physicians,” Grand Rounds, Department of Medicine. Falmouth Hospital, Falmouth, MA, July 10, 2007.

2007                “Professionalism and Physician Well Being,” Grand Rounds, Department of Medicine. Jordan Hospital, Plymouth, MA, November 2, 2007.

2007                “Physicians Helping Physicians,” Medical Staff Grand Rounds, South Shore Medical Center, Weymouth, MA, November 27, 2007.

2008                “Doctors and Torture:  What All Physicians Need to Know,” presentation to the Asylum Network Discussion Group, Physicians for Human Rights, Cambridge, MA, January 22, 2008.

2008                “Doctors, Torture, and War,” Physicians for Human Rights, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, March  11, 2008

2008                “Physician Health,” Grand Rounds, Department of Medicine, Charleton Hospital, Fall River, MA, October 28, 2008.

2009                “Physician Health Matters,” Grand Rounds, Department of Medicine. Jordan Hospital, Plymouth, MA, February 6, 2009.

2009                “Physician Health Matters,” Grand Rounds, Department of Psychiatry. Bournewood Hospital, Brookline, MA, February 23, 2009.

2009                “The Health and Health Care Of U.S. Prisoners: A Nationwide Survey,” Health Care in Prisons, sponsored by Prisoners Legal Services and the Boston Bar Association, Boston, MA, March 11, 2009.

2009                “Physician Health Matters,” Quincy Medical Center, Quincy, MA, September 17, 2009.

2009                “Physician Health Matters,” Grand Rounds, Department of Medicine, South Shore Hospital, Weymouth, MA, September 22, 2009.

2009                “Health and Human Rights,” Physicians for Human Rights Northeast Regional Advocacy Institute, Boston, MA , November 7, 2009. e

2010                “Revitalizing the Single Payer Movement in Massachusetts,” Physicians for a National Health Program, Boston, MA.

2012                “Doctors of the Dark Side,” discussant, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, November 8, 2012.

2013                “Mental Health in Immigration Court:  Evaluation and Testimony in Immigration Court,” Political Asylum/Immigration Representation Project, at the Boston Bar Association, Boston, MA, May 30, 2013.

2013                “Mental Health in Detention:  Building Trust with Mentally Ill Clients,” Political Asylum/Immigration Representation Project, at the Boston Bar Association, Boston, MA, May 30, 2013.

2015                “Speak-out: “Health Care in Massachusetts: An ailing model,” sponsored by Massachusetts-Physicians for a National Program and MassCare, Boston, MA, March 26, 2015.

2015                “Mentally Ill but Deportable?  Representing Clients with Mental Health Issues’” Boston Bar Association, Boston, MA, November 12, 2015.

2018                “Ethical Issues in Representing Clients with Mental Health Issues,” 2018 Health Law Symposium, Massachusetts Bar Association, Boston, MA, March 16, 2018.

2019                Keynote Address, Political Asylum/Immigration Representation 30th Annual Gala, Boston, MA, June 3, 2019.

2020                Massachusetts Consortium on Pathogen Readiness Unequal Destroyer: COVID-19 health disparities and the search for solutions:  Immigrants and Asylum Seekers.  Massachusetts Consortium on Pathogen Readiness.  Boston, MA.  September 23, 2020.

National

2007                A Novel Dosing Strategy for Delivering Psychiatric Education: Yearlong Pulsed Dosing in Contrast to Conventional 4-6 Week Bolus,” Annual Meeting of the Association for Academic Psychiatry, September 21, 2007, Boston, MA.

2008                “Teaching Psychotherapy and Psychodynamics to Medical Students,” Annual Meeting of the Association for Academic Psychiatry, September, 26, 2008, Santa Fe, NM.

2009                “Understanding The Geneva Conventions & Why Health Professionals Must Know,” Physicians for Human Rights National Student Meeting.  Providence, RI, January 31, 2009.

2010                “The Medical Management of Opioid Dependent Adolescents—Part 1,” Association of Recovery Schools National Conference, July 21, 2010, Boston, MA.

2010                “Physicians in Crisis: How to Proceed if there are Concerns about Substance Abuse and Behavioral Health Issues in Colleagues and/or Trainees,” Annual Meeting of the Association for Academic Psychiatry, September 22, 2010, Pasadena, CA.

2011                “Ethical Issues in Innovative Social and Behavioral Research Methodologies,” Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research, Social, Behavioral, & Educational Research Conference, April 28, 2011, Boston, MA

2011                “I Want a New Drug,” Plenary Presentation, Association for Medical Education and Research in Substance Abuse Annual Meeting, Alexandria, VA, Nov 4, 2011.

2012                “The Harvard Medical School Cambridge Integrated Clerkship in Psychiatry:  the Narratives Students tell about Themselves and their Patients.”  Annual Meeting of the Association for Academic Psychiatry, October 11, 2012, Nashville, TN.

2012                “Forbidden Narratives:  Discussions of Race and Class in the Context of a Longitudinal Psychiatry Clerkship.”  Annual Meeting of the Association for Academic Psychiatry, October 12, 2012, Nashville, TN.

2013                “Psychology Graduate Student Knowledge about Ethics and the Geneva Conventions.”  Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, August 3, 2012, Honolulu, HI.  Presented by co-author Alice Locicero.

2013                “Outreach to State and Local Medical Societies,” Physicians for a National Health Program National Meeting, Nov 2, 2013, Boston, MA.

2013                “Research Based Advocacy,” Physicians for a National Health Program National Meeting, Nov 2, 2013, Boston, MA.

2014                “How Obamacare Fails the Mentally Ill,” American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, May 3, 2014.  New York, NY.

2014                “Single Payer and the Crisis in Mental Health Care,” Physicians for a National Health Program Annual Meeting, November 8, 2014.  New Orleans, LA.

2015                “Right Care in Psychiatry and Behavioral Health,” Lown Institute Annual Conference:  Road to RightCare, March 9, 2015.  San Diego, CA.

2015                “A Proposal for Mental Health Care in a Single Payer Health Care System,” Physicians for a National Health Program Annual Meeting, October 31, 2015.  Chicago, IL.

2016                “Avoiding Overuse and Underuse of Psychiatric Care,” Lown Institute Annual Conference, April 16, 2016.  Chicago, IL.

2016                “Mental Health Care and The Case for Single Payer Post-ACA,” American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, May 14, 2016.  Atlanta, GA.

2016                “Seeking Asylum:  The Role of Mental Health Clinicians in the Asylum Process,” American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, May 15, 2016.  Atlanta, GA.

2017                “The Importance of Psychological Evaluations in US Asylum Cases: How to Start your Own Asylum Clinic and Why it Matters,” Association of Academic Psychiatry Annual Meeting, September 7, 2017.  Denver, CO.

2018                “Multi-Disciplinary Medical Forensics in US Asylum Cases: How to Start your Own Asylum Clinic and Why Psychological Evaluations are Key,” American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, May 5, 2018.  New York, NY.

2018                “Anti-Racist “Bystander” Interventions: How Might Psychiatrists Respond When Discrimination Occurs in Clinical Settings?”,” American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, May 6, 2018.  New York, NY.

2018                “How Private Insurance Fails Those with Mental Illness: The Case for Single Payer Healthcare,” American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, May 7, 2018.  New York, NY.

2019                “A Letter to our Patients in the Trump Era Revisited,” Misericordia University, January 28, 2019.  Dallas, PA.

2019                “The Case for Keeping our Borders Open,” Misericordia University, January 28, 2019.  Dallas, PA.

2019                “The Importance of Psychological Evaluations in US Asylum Cases: How to Start your Own Asylum Clinic,” American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, May 20, 2019.  San Francisco, CA.

2019                “How Private Insurance Fails Those with Mental Illness: The Case for Single Payer Healthcare,” American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, May 20, 2019.  San Francisco, CA.

2019                “A systematic approach to developing mental health programs for the workplace,” American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, May 21, 2019.  San Francisco, CA.

2019                “Ethical Conflict and Moral Distress in Veterinary Practice: an Unsurprising Yet Undocumented Problem,” American Society for Bioethics and Humanities Annual Meeting, October 26, 2019.  Pittsburgh, PA.

2019                “Mental Health Issues and Concerns in Asylum Seeking Populations,” Physician for Human Rights 2019 National Student Conference, November 16, 2019.  Boston, MA.

2020                “The Importance of Psychological Evaluations in U.S. Asylum Cases: How to Start an Asylum Clinic in Your Hospital or Medical School,” American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, April 27, 2020.  Philadelphia, PA.
(Conference cancelled due to coronavirus.)

2020                “Single Payer and Mental Health:  Have Doubts?  Here are Some Answers.” American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, April 28, 2020.  Philadelphia, PA.  (Conference cancelled due to coronavirus.)

2020                “Psychological Evaluation of Asylum Seekers,” Oregon Health & Science University,  August 15, 2020.  Portland, OR.

2020                “Psychological Evaluation Affidavit Workshop,” Oregon Health & Science University,  August 15, 2020.  Portland, OR. 

2021                “Physicians for Human Rights Asylum Network Training,” Harvard Student Human Rights, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.  October 2, 2021

2021                “Immigration Detention,” Immigration Health Class, Oregon Health & Science University,  October 5, 2021.  Portland, OR.

2021                “Psychological Evaluation of Asylum Seekers,” Immigrant Health Elective, University of Massachusetts Medical School,  October 27, 2021.  Worcester, MA.

2021                “Immigrants and Asylum,” Immigration Health Class, Oregon Health & Science University,  November 7, 2021.  Portland, OR.

International

2004                “Physicians for a National Health Program Proposal,” World Social Forum, Boston, MA, July 25, 2004.

2006                “Perils and Pitfalls of Monitoring Physicians with Behavioral Health Problems,” American Medical Association/Canadian Medical Association International Conference on Physician Health, Ottawa, Canada, December 2, 2006.

2020                “The Importance of Psychological Evaluations in US Asylum Cases: How to Start your Own Asylum Clinic in Medical School,” Association of Academic Psychiatry Annual Meeting, September 9, 2020.  Vancouver, BC, Canada.  (Conference cancelled due to coronavirus.)

2021                “The Ethics of Advocacy (as a Medical Student),” University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, February 4, 2021.

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