2022-23 Nicholas Hobbs Discovery Awards, Director’s Strategic Priorities Grants announced
September 22, 2022
https://notables.vkcsites.org/2022/09/2022-23-nicholas-hobbs-discovery-awards-directors-strategic-priorities-grants-announced/
The Vanderbilt Kennedy Center (VKC) Nicholas Hobbs Discovery Awards and Director’s Strategic Priorities Grants have been announced for the 2022-23 award cycle. Projects address spatial processing, repetitive movements, adaptation of an intervention for Spanish-speaking families, and improving diagnostic approaches and treatment strategies for autistic individuals with co-occurring intellectual disability.
Suicide Safety Plans Customized for Autistic Youth
August 25, 2022
https://bit.ly/3KjsEI4
Process must be customized to meet needs of individuals who have trouble naming and sharing emotions. Recently, emergency departments nationwide have seen a drastic upswing in young autistic people presenting with suicidal thoughts and behaviors.
In response, Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers, writing in Pediatrics, have suggested ways that clinicians and emergency department staff can adapt suicide safety plans to meet their special needs and enhance quality of care.
Kast publishes paper in Journal of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry
August 25, 2022
Kristopher A Kast, M.D., assistant professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, program director of the Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship Program, and clinical director of the Addiction Consult Service, recently served as author of a newly-published paper in the Journal of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry.
Peter Martin publishes new book on 'Historical Vocabulary of Addiction'
August 3, 2022
Peter Martin, M.D., professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, has published his latest book, Historical Vocabulary of Addiction. This book is intended for all psychiatrists and others who are interested in mental disorders, especially those who have not viewed patients who suffer from addictive disorders as typically in their bailiwick.
Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital adds social work fellowship program
Psychiatry faculty honored with emeritus status
National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) honors Dr. William Petrie with a Vision of Hope Award
April 29, 2022
https://www.namitn.org/vision-of-hope-gala/
Taylor, Newhouse, Petrie honored by geriatric psychiatry association
Conley Paper Published in Human Psychopharmacology: Clinical and Experimental
February 28, 2022
https://t.co/jFaKaBJ5Vy
Andrews paper published in International Psychogeriatrics
January 14, 2022
Assistant professor of Geriatric Psychiatry Patricia S. Andrews, M.D., recently served as lead author on the paper "Delirium, depression, and long-term cognition," published in the journal International Psychogeriatrics. In this new publication, Dr. Andrews et. al. found that patients with a depression history prior to ICU stay exhibit a greater severity of depressive symptoms in the year after hospitalization.