You are invited to join a ROCAP educational dinner event on Thursday 4/26 at 7pm at Cafe Venezia in Berkeley. During this interactive case presentation and discussion, Dr. Stewart will examine in depth a session presented to the group by one attendee.

Dr. Stewart will focus on the psychodynamic forces at play and describe one way in which psychodynamic theory could translate into action in the case.

If you would like the opportunity to be our presenter, to discuss a complicated case and for all of us to improve our skills in the process, please let Dr. Roy Eyal know.

Please RSVP to Roy Eyal at drroyeyal@gmail.com if you plan to attend.

ROCAP Executive Committee

NC-ROCAP’s membership is primarily composed of 250 Child and Adolescent psychiatrists who reside in Northern California south to Monterey County, north to the Oregon border, west to the Pacific Ocean, and east to Davis. NC-ROCAP’s mission is to help stimulate and advance medical contributions to the knowledge and treatment of psychiatric problems of children and adolescents. Additionally, NC-ROCAP advocates for the mental health of children and adolescents and represent Child and Adolescent psychiatrists of Northern California in national, state and local levels of professional and community organizations.

We have populated the website with announcements of educational activities, including our annual conference January 20-22, 2012 at the Intercontinental Clement Hotel on Cannery Row in Monterey, and in the months ahead, we’ll detail dinner talks at local restaurants on specific topics among other professional educational activities.

Also in the months ahead, we plan to post articles and other educational material on various topics of interest on child and adolescent mental health—submissions are encouraged!

Additionally, we will create a Membership Page containing both a membership list with contact information as well as instructions on how to become a member of NC-ROCAP.

Please join me in helping to make the Northern California Regional Organization of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry’s new website a valued communication tool in supporting child and adolescent mental health.

Warm regards,

Thomas J. Brady, M.D.
President
Northern California Regional Organization of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

PRESIDENT

Ed Levin

PRESIDENT-ELECT

YES ___ NO ___ Mary Burke
I am a graduate of UCSF’s Med School, general residency and child programs. I have always had one foot in private practice, the other in community mental health, and am currently piloting the placement of a psychiatrist in an all-insurance medical clinic. While this is my primary job, I am also a project director for the UCSF Pediatric Environmental health Specialty Unit at UCSF (check out our website via Google: PEHSU UCSF). I have held many positions for the executive committee (EC) at NCROCAP, and have always been inspired by my fellow EC members. I see ROCAP playing four important roles: Putting on an annual conference; providing mentorship to trainees and early career psychiatrists; strengthening collaboration with pediatricians and primary care physicians; and providing a forum for the development of community standards of care. I am always impressed by the innovation and leadership provided by previous presidents and hope to have the opportunity to contribute.

PAST PRESIDENT

Thomas J. Brady, M.D.

SECRETARY/TREASURER

YES ___ NO ___ Regina Graham
I’m an early career child psychiatrist who has been working at Children’s Hospital Oakland since graduating from fellowship in 2010. There I do psychopharmacology, psychotherapy, consultation-liaison, and school-based mental health services. I enjoy collaborating with our pediatric and psychology colleagues who are in training as well as those who are established in their practices. As for my training stats, I completed general psychiatry residency at UCSF and child fellowship at NYU. My clinical interests are in adolescent mental health, effects of traumatic experiences on youth, psychosis, autistic spectrum disorders, and using mental health policies to improve the developmental trajectories of young people.

NATIONAL DELEGATES (5)

Mary Olowin

Petra Steinbuchel

Ronel Lewis, M.D.

YES ___ NO ___ Therese Garrett
I have been honored to participate this year on the NC-ROCAP executive committee as your secretary-treasurer and also as your membership chair. I completed my adult training at the Harvard Longwood Program and then my child training at UCSF in 2009. Currently, I am working in community mental as the medical director of the Foster Care Mental Health program and Comprehensive Child Crisis Services for the San Francisco Department of Public Health in addition to coordinating the community psychiatry rotation for the UCSF child fellows. I am looking forward to the opportunity to represent the needs of the psychiatrists in NC-ROCAP as your national delegate. Here in Northern California, we have such a rich collection of talented and eclectic child psychiatrists and I hope to increase the communication between our trainees, early career psychiatrists, NC-ROCAP leaders and AACAP representatives in order to ensure that the relevant concerns and issues on the minds of our members are heard and addressed

YES ___ NO ___ Dana Futoran
I feel like I am about to run for 5th grade class president and need to write a speech about what will make me the best representative. In reality, I am simply just like all of the child and adolescent psychiatrists in the Northern California area: working hard, collaborating with colleagues, and trying to make a difference in people’s lives. Having recently graduated fellowship, I can represent the interests of early career psychiatrists. Lastly, my endeavors as medical director and staff psychiatrist at Alameda County’s Willow Rock Center Adolescent Psychiatric Health Facility and seeing patients in my private practice, have provided me varied experiences.

STATE DELEGATE

YES ___ NO ___ Robin Randall [with Roger Wu as alternate, to be appointed as such by the executive committee]
Greetings fellow NC ROCAP members, I would be honored to be your state delegate. In my day jobs I am Medical Director of Edgewood Center for Children and Families and starting mid December I will also be Acting Director of Child Psychiatry Training at UCSF half time. Previously I have had the opportunity to represent you as a National Delegate to the AACAP Assembly and to serve on the NC ROCAP Executive Committee in that capacity for 3 years. Currently I am serving as treasurer of CALACAP and I am a member of the Government Affairs Committee. I have seen firsthand what this organization can do at all levels to improve the lives of our patients and or members. I would welcome the opportunity to serve in the capacity of state delegate.

MEMBERS-AT-LARGE (2)

YES ___ NO ___ Roy Eyal
Since graduating from my child fellowship at UCLA in 2009, I have slowly emerged into the life of a full-time child psychiatrist with an eye to a future in which children with the most needs are met with the most competent and comprehensive services. I now work for a publicly funded agency in a crisis unit and high level group home. I also recently opened a private practice in Berkeley. While I value the small steps I can facilitate one-on-one with youth, their families, and their treatment teams, I also recognize the need to influence the bigger system these youth interact with. I hope to continue learning about these systems in my second year as a Member At Large with Northern California ROCAP. I am planning to organized several evening events for the community including a discussion about relevant ballot initiatives. I hope to see you there.

YES ___ NO ___ Ross Andelman
Having trained in NY (Columbia P&S) and LA (UCLA-NPI), I came to NC-ROCAP 15 years ago as an outsider and found this community of child psychiatrists to be caring, energetic, intellectually stimulating, self-critical, but most of all welcoming. Now that I am a local, with professional activity in both the public sector (as Medical Director, Contra Costa Mental Health) and in private practice, my hope is keep our organization a welcoming supportive home for professional development, lively discourse and active promotion of the diverse roles that child and adolescent psychiatry can play in the broader Northern California community.

You are invited to explore with our presenters, some of the most influential leaders in child psychiatry in California, about the challenges we face as to how to combine new scientific rigor with the traditional humane relationship.

SCHEDULE

Friday, January 20, 2012

• 6:30 – 8:00 PM: President’s Reception (All Invited)

Saturday, January 21, 2012

• 8:30 AM: Welcome and Review of Learning Objectives; President, NC-ROCAP
• 8:45 – 9:30 AM: From Psychoanalysis to Neuroscience and Genes, The Evolution of the Development of the ‘Academic Specialty’ of Child Psychiatry; Glen Elliott, MD (Stanford)
• 9:30 – 10:15 AM: Past and Present of DSM I – IV and What is Down the Pike in DSM V for Child Psychiatry; Robert Hendren, DO (UCSF)
• 10:15 – 10:45 AM: Panel Q&A
• 10:45 – 11:15 AM: Break
• 11:15 AM – Noon: Clinical Drugs Used in the Past and the Current Status of Psychopharmacological Treatments and What is on The Horizon; James McCracken, MD (UCLA)
• Noon – 12:30 PM: Panel Q & A
• 12:30 PM – 1:45 PM: Luncheon – Being An Effective Advocate For Children’s Mental Health (Part I)

Special Guest Addresses:

Introduction to What Mental Health Advocacy Is: Kristin Kroeger Ptakowski, Senior Deputy Executive Director, Director of Government Affairs & Clinical Practice AACA

Mr. Jonathan and Ms. Angela Barker, who will share their story of raising their son who is diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder and their advocacy strategies for California public policy and services for children with autism and other developmental disabilities

• 2:00 – 3:45 PM: Training Forum

Review of how programs have changed over the past decades, particularly the newest initiatives including the new Clinical Skills Verification, the Treatment Techniques Taught To Child Psychiatry Fellows, the Newest ABPN exams, the Milestone Movement within the RCC, Culturally Informed Practice Skills, Advocacy Skills and other changes in training child psychiatrists that lie ahead.

Tom Anders MD (UCD and UCSF) Chairperson
Carl Feinstein MD (Stanford)
Stuart Lustig MD (UCSF)
Penny Knapp, MD (UCD)
Shashank Joshi, MD (Stanford)
Marcy Forgey, MD (UCLA)

• 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM: Being An Effective Advocate For Children’s Mental Health (Part II)

Historical Overview of the Achievements of Advocacy at the National Level; Kristin Kroeger Ptakowski

Historical Overview of the Achievements of Advocacy at the California State Level; Marcy Forgey, MD (UCLA)

What We Need from You Our Child Psychiatrist Colleagues: We need you as “media docs” to contact your local media and form relationships. We need you to form relationships with your legislators locally as a key contact. We need you to come to Sacramento to testify and to answer questions that we can best answer. In short, we just can’t get enough of you! Get your colleagues to join us too; Saul Wasserman, MD (Stanford)

• Adjourn Didactic
• 6:30 PM: Reception – Everyone invited

Sunday January 22, 2012

• 8:45 – 10:15 AM: Four Breakouts

Clinical Consultation Breakfast I (Pre-registration required): Cases and Questions from attendees are welcome. Master Clinician: Graeme Hanson, MD (UCSF)

Clinical Consultation Breakfast II (Pre-registration required): Discussion about ‘Retirement’, and do child psychiatrists ever retire? Master Clinician Mary Olowin, MD

Special Interest Study Group III Bullying (Pre-registration required): Bullying is a major concern for schools and families and communities, in fact has become a major public health problem globally. Presenters will discuss the design of evidence based treatment programs. Participants will discuss what clinically can be done to help children affected by bullying. John Sikorski, MD (UCSF) and Kimberly J. Tseng, MD (UCSF)

Special Interest Study Group IV- Computers and Social Networking (Pre-registration required): YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and other social-media sites present new challenges to professionalism for child psychiatrists and other medical practitioners. It has blurred the line between the personal and the public. The online world also holds potential for creating social emotional problems and consequences for the public, and some cautions are in order. The presenters and discussants will focus on how to encourage awareness on social media and its pitfalls. Shashank Joshi, MD (Stanford) and Rex Huang, MD (CAP Resident Stanford)

• 10:15 – 10:45 AM: Break for Checkout (late checkout available by arrangement with hotel)
• 10:45 AM – 11:00 AM:

Al De Ranieri Lifetime Achievement Award
Gordon Andrews Community Service Award
Aubrey Metcalf Trainee Award

• 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM:

Literary Forum, Introduction by Amy Tan

Maxine Hong Kingston author of The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts (1976), China Men (1980), Hawai’i One Summer (1987), Through the Black Curtain (1987), Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book (1989), To Be the Poet (2002), The Fifth Book of Peace (2003), Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace (2006), and I Love a Broad Margin to My Life (2011), in conversation with Bridget Connelly, PhD, University of California, Emerita Professor of Rhetoric

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