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New Adult Outpatient and Lazos Fuertes Building Grand Opening
Our Adult Outpatient and Lazos Fuertes clinics will have a new home in the heart of the City of Rochester starting July 27! With this new adult mental health location, we are in an even better position to be able to serve the community. This new building, the largest of its kind in downtown Rochester, will provide state-of-the-art facilities, a central location on 150 North Chestnut Street with nearby bus routes, and increased patient capacity. A livestreamed ribbon-cutting is tentatively
scheduled for July 27th. Stay tuned for more info coming soon!
Celebrating Our Graduates
We are celebrating our 2020 Graduates in our Psychiatry and Psychology training programs! We are so proud to share that our graduates will join the newest generation of leaders in careers in patient care, teaching, scientific research, and administration across the U.S. While we could not celebrate in person this year as a result of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, a virtual graduation ceremony was held with resident and fellow volunteers delivering dinner to the grads. Read about our grads and their next steps on the 2020 Graduation Celebration Headquarters website!
8th Annual Summer Series Discusses Anti-Racism & Transformation
Our 8th Annual Brown Bag Summer Series, held this year in partnership with the Department of Neurology and Department of Pediatrics, began on July 8th, and presentations will continue on the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of July and August. This year’s series is designed to help University employees broaden their understanding of themselves in relation to racism with a focus on how to help us become an anti-racist organization. In addition to these biweekly presentations, small group sharing sessions will be held on the 1st, 3rd, and 5th Wednesdays of July and August with exercises provided at the presentations the week prior. READ MORE>>>
Multi-Year Grant to Study Peer-Led Vaping Prevention Program
“Above the Influence of Vaping," a program engaging 8th and 9th graders to create a school culture in which more students overcome pressures to abuse vaping, is at the center of a new $4 million, five-year grant. Led by Peter Wyman, PhD, this five-year project will study the effectiveness of peer-led efforts to prevent adolescent vaping in schools. READ MORE>>>
Kate Cerulli Selected as Health Policy Fellow
Our very own Catherine Cerulli, JD, PhD, director at the Susan B. Anthony Center, has been named a Health Policy Fellow by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the National Academy of Medicine. Cerulli will spend a year in Washington, DC in a placement within the federal government before returning to Rochester to work on a project that analyzes how courts make determinations about child abuse and neglect. READ MORE>>>
Mark Oldham Receives ACLP 2020 Visiting Professorship
Mark Oldham, MD has been awarded the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry’s 2020 Visiting Professorship! As part of this program, Dr. Oldham will be visiting Stanford University next year to promote the understanding and practice of consultation-liaison psychiatry and to increase interest in, and awareness of, consultation-liaison psychiatry. READ MORE>>>
Crossing Miles to Save Lives Webinar
Gloria Baciewicz, MD and Patrick Seche, MS will present in a webinar on July 13, 2020 discussing benefits and strategies of targeted naloxone distribution, focusing on "touchless" training and delivery in rural communities. READ MORE>>>
Family Therapy Training
Program Faculty and Supervision Awards
Faculty Teaching and Supervision Awards for our Family Therapy Training Program have been awarded! Typically presented at the Spring banquet honoring the program's Masters, post-degree, and postdoctoral fellows’ graduations, these awards are selected annually by graduates.
Kim Linde, LMFT has been selected for the Pieter le Roux Excellence in Supervision Award. This award honors a supervisor that demonstrates excellence in teaching and developing new clinicians to serve patients and families as well as sensitivity to cultural diversity.
Kristin Koberstein, LMFT has been awarded the Susan H. McDaniel Excellence in Teaching Award. This award honors a teaching faculty member who is exceptionally enthusiastic, creative, generous, and energetic about teaching and developing new clinicians to serve patients and families.
Pediatric Behavioral Health Building Ribbon Cutting Now Online
Miss the ribbon cutting ceremony for the new Golisano Pediatric Behavioral Health and Wellness Building earlier in June? Watch the event on Golisano Children's Hospital's Facebook page now! You can also take a peek at some of the rooms which will be used to help meet the critical need for mental health care among children and teens in a virtual tour.
Opioid Overdose Prevention Trainings Resume for 2020
We're excited to share that monthly in-person Opioid Overdose Prevention Training courses will resume at our 300 Crittenden Blvd. location! Attendees must wear masks and we will be social distancing. Spots are limited to 10 attendees per session. Register for an in-person training here.
Can't make it to an in-person training? Strong Recovery will also be holding virtual sessions on the 2nd Tuesday and last Thursday of each month! To register for an upcoming session, please contact Cherlyn McFadden. Zoom links will be sent to your inbox after registration. READ MORE>>>
Mental Health Minutes Feature Music from Psychiatry Members
Our weekly Mental Health Minutes video series continued in June with musical performances from our Department of Psychiatry community. We hope the following videos bring you a bit of inspiration and a short mental health break!
- Steve Silverstein, PhD performs "High N' Dry" by Black Oak Arkansas.
- Matthew Lucia, sophomore at Columbia and nephew of our very own Telva Olivares, MD, plays the first movement of Cassado's Cello Suite.
- "Ode to Nina Simone," a composition by Nina Raquel, daughter of our very own Director of Opioid Treatment Program at Strong Recovery, Itza Morales-Torres, as performed by the Baruch String Quartet
A minute of relaxation exercises from Marilyn Guadagnino
A video highlighting the work of our exceptional Strong Ties Services staff during the COVID-19 pandemic
Ben Rosenhack, nephew of Ellen Poleshuck, PhD, performs the Bach Violin Sonata in C Major.
A Care Package of artwork, music, & poetry from our co-workers at The Memorial Art Gallery, The Eastman School of Music & Eastman Performing Arts Medicine
Psychiatry in the News
- Several members of Psychiatry wrote an article in NEJM Catalyst on our stand-alone inpatient psychiatry unit with integrated medical support for patients with acute psychiatric illness who have tested positive for Covid-19.
- Kevin Brazill, DO and Telva Olivares, MD spoke with WXXI News on our Behavioral Health COVID unit providing psychiatric services for those experiencing COVID-19 symptoms.
- Kenya Malcolm, PhD spoke with WHEC TV on how racism can impact children and teens, as well as how parents can navigate conversations about racism.
- Michael Scharf, MD spoke on the Bob Lonsberry Show on WHAM 1180 about the mental health impacts of being away from school on youth.
- Michael Hasselberg, PhD wrote an article in Health Tech Magazines on the “Amazon Effect" as a model for patient-centered healthcare.
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