Annual Meeting: State of the DepartmentTo All Faculty: You are cordially invited to The ANNUAL MEETING of Columbia University Department of Psychiatry and New York State Psychiatric Institute on Friday, January 18, 2008 from 11:00 to 12:30 in the 1st Floor Hellman Auditorium Please join us for lunch in the Atrium following the meeting Jeffrey A.
*ADULT PSYCHIATRY GRAND ROUNDS*
Intervening With Drug Abusing Patients in Primary Care Medical Settings: New Research Evidence, Practice Guidelines and Policy Changes
Bertha Madras, PhD
Deputy Director for Demand Reduction
White House Office of National Drug Control Policy
*ADULT PSYCHIATRY GRAND ROUNDS* The Sachar awardThe Vulcanization of the Human Brain:Neuroimaging Studies of ?Cognition-Emotion? Interactions in Decision MakingJonathan D. Cohen, MD, PhDEugene Higgins Professor of PsychologyDirector, Center for the Study of Brain, Mind and BehaviorDirector, Program in NeurosciencePrinceton University
In the July issue of Health Affairs Co-author Dr. Harold Pincus told MedPage Today that more medical school students were going into psychiatry in the 60s and 70s, but there’s been a “generational shift and this proportion has declined. Thus, psychiatrists are not being replaced at a sufficient rate.” He offered two potential reasons for this shift: “First, psychiatrists are one of the lowest compensated specialties,” he said. “Secondly, there are a greater number of other professionals providing behavioral health services, such as mid-level providers and counselors.”
