Agenda

9:00 AM | Registration and Continental Breakfast

10:00 AM | Welcome and Statement of Purpose

Dr. Sidney Hankerson, MD, MBA

Vice Chair of Psychiatry & Director, Mental Health Equity Research 

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Dr. Lena L. Green, DSW, LCSW

Executive Director, HOPE Center

Opening Remarks and Acknowledgments

Dr. Ann Marie T. Sullivan, MD

Commissioner

New York State Office of Mental Health

Dr. René Kahn, MD, PhD

Chair of Psychiatry Department

Mount Sinai Health System

APA Foundation Community Diversity Fellowship Overview

Rawle Andrews Jr., Esq. 

Executive Director, American Psychiatric Association Foundation

Public Psychiatry Fellowship at Columbia University Overview

Dr. Stephanie Le Melle, MD, MS

Director of Public Psychiatry Education

Director of the Columbia Public Psychiatry Fellowship

New York State Psychiatric Institute / Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC)

Panel Discussion 1: Public Psychiatry Clinical Programs

Dr. Mena Mirhom MD, FAPA

Chief Wellbeing Officer, Athletes for Hope

Dr. Bianca Nguyen MD, MPH

Medical Director, Coordinated Behavioral Care and Samaritan Daytop Village 

Dr. Daniel Brice Reynolds, MD

Clinical Instructor, Department of Psychiatry at NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Dr. Stephanie Le Melle, MD, MS

Break

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai/HOPE Center Harlem Partnership

Dr. Lena L. Green, DSW, LCSW

Dr. Sidney Hankerson, MD, MBA

Panel Discussion 2: Research in Public Psychiatry

Dr. Antonia New, MD

Vice Chair for Education

Residency Training Director, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Dr. Shilpa Taufique, PhD

Vice Chair for Faculty Development

Chief Psychologist of the Division of Psychology

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Dr. Lena Green, DSW, LCSW

Dr. Sidney Hankerson, MD, MBA

Networking Lunch - Food for Thought

Clinical, Policy & Advocacy

Dr. Warren Ng, MD, MPH

Medical Director, Outpatient Behavioral Health 

Director, Clinical Services, Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

NewYork-Presbyterian Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC)

Dr. Obianugu Berry 

Director, Domestic Violence Mental Health Initiatives

NYC Health + Hospitals 

Dr. Carine Nzodom, MD 

Medical Director

Housing and Homeless Services

NYS Office of Mental Health

Dr. Adjoa Smalls-Mantey, MD, DPhil

President, New York County Psychiatric Society

​​Assistant Clinical Professor, Psychiatry, Mount Sinai Health System

Dr. Mira Bodic 

​​Associate Director, Columbia Public Psychiatry Fellowship

Associate Professor,  Clinical Psychiatry

Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC)

Training, Research & Education

Dr. Paul Rosenfield, MD

Director of Psychiatry Education and Training and Program Director

Psychiatry Residency

Mount Sinai Morningside and Mount Sinai West

Dr. Stephanie LeMelle, MD, MS 

Dr. Shilpa Taufique, PhD 

Dr. Lena Green, DSW, LCSW

Dr. Sidney Hankerson, MD, MBA

Keynote Remarks

Dr. Altha Stewart, MD

Senior Associate Dean, Community Health Engagement

University of Tennessee Health Science Center

Closing Remarks

Linda Rosenberg, LCSW

Co-Founder

Office of CEO

Thank You

Dr. Sidney Hankerson, MD, MBA

Dr. Lena Green, DSW, LCSW

Dr. Stephanie LeMelle, MD, MS