🧠✨Black In Neuro Week is back for the 4th year with even more amazing programming! Save the date for #BINW23 : July 24th to July 30th. We’ve got great things in store, including panels, workshops, and a keynote from Ishmail Abdus-Saboor! Stay tuned, registration will open soon!

Quoting Jessica Isom MD MPH during this health equity symposium! We have much more work to do and UR Medicine recognizes that we must be deliberate and consistent if we are going to see change. Enjoyed the participating in this panel! Nancy M. Bennett, MD, MS Brittan Hardgers Dr. Edith

Having a full circle moment. I am currently the supervising physician for the daughter of one of my high school teachers! The pressure is on to step up my #MedEd game☺️ Shout out to Mr. Hathaway and his daughter, current psychiatry resident, Dr. Hathaway! URMC Department of Psychiatry

This.

“Fewer than a fifth of U.S. jails, and just 13% in the South, start people on medications to treat opioid use withdrawal, according to a U.S. Department of Justice report published in April.” If we want to reduce recidivism, we must begin care in jails. cnn.com/2023/07/19/hea…

Thank you for your work Dr. Jennifer D. Roberts!!

Direct cash assistance for eligible first time moms living in this Rochester zip codes. Use the QR codes to find out more!

Cada persona es diferente. Por eso, Young People in Recovery acepta y apoya todas los caminos de recuperación, incluidas la reducción de daños, la basada en la fe, la abstinencia y otras. 🔗 youngpeopleinrecovery.org/podcast/ #Podcast #Recuperacion

Come learn from the great American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry #mentor Dr. Benton! us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regist… #DiversityandInclusion #Children #MentalHealthMatters #LatinxInPsych Black Psych Docs PsychResChat Psychiatry Student Interest Group Network World Network of Psychiatric Trainees (WNPT) Child & Adolescent Psych Asian Caucus

Just published - our editorial on ending racial disparities in buprenorphine access for opioid use disorder. With recent changes to federal policies on bupe prescribing & worsening overdose deaths, now is the time to use bupe as a strategy to end racial disparities.

Happening tomorrow!! Proud to be leading this team as we commemorate 50 years of service. This is event is free and open to the public URMC Department of Psychiatry UR Medicine Recovery Center of Excellence UR Medicine

Amazing work by my colleagues Dr. Amina Alio and Dr. Diane Morse; I'm very excited to see the positive outcomes and growth of this program!

Relieved and thankful to hear NIDA Director Dr. Nora Volkow denouncing involuntary treatment as failed policy - and “magical thinking”. “Inflexibility has cost a lot lives. We need to change the practices.” NIDAnews #reform2023

So excited to share this feature of my work co-creating the GROW (Getting Racism Out of our Work) Initiative Yale Psychiatry in American Psychological Association 's The Monitor on Psychology. Check it out here: bit.ly/3FI6WfE

I’m proud of the research we are doing at NYS OASAS, which directly informs our work. Excited to see Dr Ashly Jordan present our work at the #AMERSA2023 conference.

Published today in SAj_AMERSA 👉 "...stigma toward patients taking buprenorphine for OUD...and tolerance for risk...are related to differences in pharmacists’ intentions to and willingness to dispense buprenorphine for OUD." journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/29…