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Volume 3 Issue 7 July 9, 2015

Department of Psychiatry and

Behavioral Sciences

Announcements

New Appointments: May 2015 Sajoy P. Varghese, MD – Lecturer. Dr. Varghese will collaborate on research on CRF/Opioid system epigenet-ics with faculty members. Nancy Kennedy, PhD – Health System Clinician (HSC). Dr. Kennedy is returning to Northwestern University to work within the Neurobehavior and Memory Clinic of the Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer’s Disease Center (CNADC), consulting with patients under M. Marsel Mesulam, MD. June 2015 John Rolland, MD – Adjunct Professor (University of Chicago). Dr. Rolland will collaborate with faculty in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Studies, as well as the Departments of Medicine, Medical Social Sci-ences and the Cancer Center on the design and execution of research projects related to family dynamics and population health. Justin Dean Smith, PhD – Assistant Professor. Dr. Smith will be working with C. Hendricks Brown, PhD on imple-mentation science including conducting research in parenting and other behavioral interventions. July 2015 Michael Schrift, DO – Associate Professor. Dr. Schrift will be starting as an Associate Professor and the Director of the Division of Geriatric Psychiatry on Wednesday, July 1, 2015. He will also help direct the Division’s Fel-lowship in Geriatric Psychiatry. He will consult on the re-design of the Older Adult Program in the Stone Mental Health Center, and develop a Geriatric and Neuropsychiatry Clinic within the NMG Psychiatry practice. Dr. Schrift will also be working with Joan Anzia, MD to review and develop additions to enhance the teaching of fellows, residents, and medical students. Tara Gill, PhD – Instructor. Dr. Gill will be working at the Lurie Children’s Hospital as a Staff Psychiatrist. Joel L. Voss, PhD—Secondary Appointment, Assistant Professor (Department of Medical Social Sciences and Neurology) Dr. Voss will be collaborating with faculty involved in research on cognitive neuroscience and human neuroimaging.

Promotions (Effective 9/1/2015):

Gaurava Agarwal, MD – promoted to Assistant Professor on the Clinician-Educator track

Karen Breen, MD – promoted to Assistant Professor as Coterminous

Michael Brook, PhD – promoted to Assistant Professor on the Clinician-Educator track

Mehmet E. Dokucu, MD, PhD – promoted to Associate Professor on the Clinician-Educator track

Karen R. Gouze, PhD – promoted to Professor on the Clinician-Educator track

James L. Reilly, PhD – promoted to Associate Professor on the Clinician-Educator track

Stacy D. Sanford, PhD – promoted to Associate Professor on the Clinician-Educator track

Susan Stern, MD – promoted to Assistant Professor on the Clinician-Educator track

Jason J. Washburn, PhD – promoted to Associate Professor on the Clinician-Educator track

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Education News

Congratulations to Heide Hullsiek Rollings, MD, Sarah Florence, MD, Sarah Steuerman, MD and Stacy Greeter, MD who completed their Child and Adolescent Psychiatry fellowship training.

We would like to welcome the following students and fellows for our training year at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago:

Psychology Interns:

Caroline Kerns, M.A. Boston University

Claudio Rivera, M.A. DePaul University Anthony Vesco, M.A. The Ohio State Univer-sity

Post-doctoral Fellows:

Kathryn Lawton, Ph.D. Marquette University

Edna Romero, M.A. DePaul University

Meredyth Evans, Ph.D. DePaul University

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellows:

Rahul Sharma, MD

Juvaria Shahabuddin, MD

Courtney Romba, MD

Meghan Schott, MD

Clinical News

Michelle Heyland, APN. Michelle will be joining the NMG OP practice in July. She is a board certified Family Psychiatric and Mental Health Nurse Practitioner and currently teaches at Rush University’s College of Nursing.

2015 Child and Adolescent Fellowship Graduates Left to Right: Julie Sadhu, Sarah Florence, Heide Hullsiek Rollings,

Sarah Steuerman, Mina Dulcan

2015 Psychosomatic Fellowship Graduate Left to Right: John Csernansky, Sheila Lahijani,

Lisa Rosenthal, Robert Brett Lloyd

Congratulations to Sheila Lahijani, MD, our

2015 Psychosomatic fellowship graduate.

Please welcome our new Psychosomatic fel-

low, Josh Haugh, MD.

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Education News, continued

PGY1 Welcome luncheon

Left side: Amy Black, Erica Ghignone, Chandan Khandai, Xiaohua Feng, Adrienne Taylor, Maryna Bayeva

Right side: Aparna Chatterjee, Phoebe Arbogast, Jeffery Lurie, Lauren Schumacher, Sam Libeu

Please welcome our new PYG1 residents:

Phoebe Arbogast, MD

Aderonke Bamgbose, MD

Maryna Bayeva, MD

Aparna Chatterjee, MD

Xiaohua (Sherry) Feng, MD

Andrea Lundberg, MD

Jeffrey Lurie, MD

Elizabeth Ryznar, MD

Congratulations to the 2015 Psychiatry

Resident graduating class:

Kara Brown, MD

Mark Chapman, MD

Kurt Kastenholz, MD

Nathan Ontrop, MD

Megan Pirigyi, MD

Brian Schultz, MD, PhD

And congratulations to PGY3 Residents matriculating to Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Carolyn Auffenberg, MD

Monica Blumenkrants, MD

Julia Shekunov, MD

2015 Psychiatry Resident Graduation

Left to Right: Robert Lloyd, Julia Shekunov, Monica Blumenkrants, Kara Brown, Kurt Kastenholz,

Carolyn Auffenberg, Nathan Ontrop, Megan Pirigyi, Mark Chapman, Brian Schultz, Mia Collins, Joan Anzia

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Presentations and Conferences

C. Hendricks Brown, PhD and his team attended the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Prevention Re-search on May 26-29, 2015 where they presented the following:

An implementation partnership model for prevention policy, practice, and science. Chair: Gail Ritchie; Discuss-ants: Tonia Gray, James Wright, C. Hendricks Brown, Sheppard Gordon Kellam and Juan Andres Villa-mar. Methodological Approaches in Implementation: Innovations in Research Design and Data Modeling. Sympo-sium Organizer: Juan Andres Villamar; Presenting Authors: Gregory Farber, Carlos Gallo, Ying Kuen (Ken) Cheung; Discussant: Sheppard Gordon Kellam. Integrating Knowledge from Diverse Studies for Predicting Impact and Cost of Prevention. Symposium Or-ganizer: Gracelyn Cruden; Presenting Authors: Beverly Pringle, Gracelyn Cruden, Neil Jordan. Discussant: Jane Pearson. Prevention of Adolescent Depressive & Internalizing Symptoms: How and for Whom Do Interventions Work?Symposium Organizer: Tatiana Perrino; Presenting Authors: C. Hendricks Brown, Tatiana Perrino, Ahnalee Brincks; Discussant: George W. Howe. ECPN SESSION II: ALTERNATIVVE FUNDING MECHANISM UNDER THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT. Speakers/Presenters: Amanda Sisselman, Gracelyn Cruden, Elizabeth A. Stuart, Carrie Klabunde, Deena Chisholm and Sarah Steverman. Variation in Effects of Communities That Care on Youth Outcomes: Differences By Design and Subgroups. Symposium Organizer: J. David Hawkins; Discussant: C. Hendricks Brown.

Chen, D., Johnson, E., Finlayson, C., Hidalgo, M. A., Rosoklija, I., Madonna, M., Cheng, E., & Yerkes, E. (May 2015). Lurie Children’s Gender and Sex Development Clinic: Baseline Demographics and Parental Stress Meas-ures for Patients with Disorders of Sex Development. Podium presentation at the annual meeting of the Ameri-can Urological Association, New Orleans, LA. Chen, D., Johnson, E., Finlayson, C., Hidalgo, M. A., Rosoklija, I., Madonna, M., Cheng, E., & Yerkes, E. (April 2015). Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago’s Disorders of Sex Development (DSD) Clinic: Base-line Demographic Characteristics and Parental Stress Measures. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Pediatric Psychology, San Diego, CA. Arthur C. Nielsen, MD “Sequencing Interventions in Couple Therapy,” paper at Annual Meeting of The American Family Therapy Academy, Portland, OR 6/5/15; again at The Annual Meeting of the Society for the Explora-tion of Psychotherapy Integration, Baltimore, MD, 6/19/15. Arthur C. Nielsen, MD “Building Loving and Lasting Couple Relationships,” daylong opening session at the Chi-cago Center for Family Health’s International Intensive Training Program, 6/8/15.

Arthur C. Nielsen, MD “Why marriage is difficult” to the Wisconsin Psychoanalytic Society, 4/18/15.

Katherine L. Wisner, MD, MS, was notified that Northwestern will receive funding for her NICHD U54 Center grant “Optimizing Medication Management for Mothers with Depression (OPTI-MOM).” Northwestern will be one of three Obstetric Fetal Pharmacology Research Centers, with the other sites being University of Pittsburgh and University of Texas Medical Branch. Dr. Wisner will serve as the PI on this grant along with Catherine S. Stika, MD (Obstetric Pharmacology) and Alfred L. George, MD (Pharamcogenomics). Suena Massey, MD, received a 5 Year Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award (K23) from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) entitled, Cognitive-Affective Substrates of Smoking - Targets for Maternal Behavior Change. Dr. Massey will examine maternal empathy as a target mechanism in prenatal smoking cessation while developing expertise in statistical modeling, empathy measurement, and inter-vention development.

Research News

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Presentations and Conferences, continued

Sorensen, L.G., Neurocognitive Status in Metabolic Disorders. Invited Oral Presentation, Parallel Workshop 10: Ethics of Liver Transplantation, International Pediatric Transplant Association (IPTA) 8th Congress on Pediatric Transplantation. San Francisco, CA., March, 2015 Hilliard, M., Kushner, J., Hood, K., Weissberg-Benchell, J., & Anderson, B. (June, 2015). Diabetes Resilience: Psychometric Properties of a Measure for Preadolescents with Type 1 Diabetes. Poster presented at the 75th Annual Scientific Sessions of the American Diabetes Association. Boston, Massachusetts. Weissberg-Benchell, J. (June, 2015). The Human Side of the Artificial Pancreas. Invited presentation at the sym-posium entitled: Diabetes Devices and Technologies – the Patient Experience, at the 75th Scientific Sessions of the American Diabetes Association Meeting. Boston, Massachusetts. Weissberg-Benchell, J. (June, 2015). Panelist for JDRF/NIH closed-loop consortium meeting, Adoption of the Artificial Pancreas Discussion. Held during the 75th scientific sessions at the American Diabetes Association, Bos-ton, Massachusetts. Weissberg-Benchell, J. (June, 2015). Workshop Chair: Psychosocial Aspects of the Artificial Pancreas, Key Stakeholders Perspectives. Workshop at the 75th Scientific Session of the American Diabetes Association, Bos-ton, Massachusetts. Weissberg-Benchell, J. (May, 2015). Personalized Diabetes Management: A Psychosocial Perspective. Invited Keynote Speaker for the annual medical information and training day conference for Roche Diabetes Care. Indianapolis, Indiana. Weissberg-Benchell, J. (April, 2015). Supporting Teen Problem Solving (STEPS): Depression Prevention for Teens with Type 1 Diabetes. Invited lecture, Virginia Tarlow Grand Rounds, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Weissberg-Benchell, J. (March, 2015). Overlapping Treatment of Depression and Diabetes. Invited lecture for the Diabetes Diagnosis and Management Workshop offered at the 97th Annual Endocrine Society Meeting. San Diego, California. Weissberg-Benchell, J. (March, 2015). Growing Up and Moving On, Transitioning from Pediatric to Adult Care. Invited lecture for the Type 1 Diabetes in Transition: Overcoming Obstacles to Effective Care Symposium offered at the 97th Annual Endocrine Society Meeting. San Diego, California. Boswell, L., Weck, M., Hayner, A., Weissbourd, M., Santella, M. and deRegnier, R. “Identification of motor dis-abilities using the Bayley Scales of Infant Toddler Development, 3rd Edition and the Neuro-sensory Motor De-velopmental Assessment in high risk intensive care unit graduates”. Presented at the Pediatric Academic Society (PAS) Meeting , San Diego, California 4/2015. Katherine L. Wisner, MD, MS: Trevor Young Lecture in Psychiatry Research Keynote Presentation, University of Toronto. “SSRIs in pregnancy. Are we asking the right questions?” June 2015 Katherine L. Wisner, MD, MS and Crystal Clark, MD, MSc: ASCP Annual Meeting Workshop, Miami, FL, The Perinatal Woman and Psychopharmacology: Optimizing Dosing and Infant Outcomes. June 2015 Presentations at Contemporary Forums: Psychiatric Nursing in Chicago, April, 2015

Richard Ray MS, RN, PMH-BC “Does Increased Supervision Lead to Unit Safety? The Use of Special Observations on Inpatient Psychiatry” Patricia Roberts MSN, RN, PMHCNS-BC, NE-BC “Behavioral Activation Communication on Inpatient Psychiatry”

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Publications

Clark CT, Sit D., Driscoll K., En HF., Confer AL., Luther JF, Wisniewski SR.,& Wisner KL. (2015). Does screen-ing with the MDQ and EPDS improve identification of bipolar disorder in an obstetrical sample? Depression and anxiety 0:1–9 (2015); 1-9 PGY2 Amy Curtis, MD has an article accepted for the Biological Psychiatry issue (August) in the Residents' Journal of the American Journal of Psychiatry. The title is "White matter dysfunction central to neurodevelop-ment of schizophrenia: A review of emerging literature." Gollan JK. (2015). Neural Substrates of Negativity Bias in Women With and Without Major Depression. Bio-logical Psychology (2015), pp. 184-191 DOI information: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2015.06.003 Reiner, P. (2015). Integrating psychodynamic and systemic supervision. In T. Todd & C. Storm (Eds.), The com-plete systemic supervisor: Context, philosophy, and pragmatics, electronic resources (section 3, item g). Avail-able from http://www.wiley.com/go/todd (accessible with book) Sadhu J: Childhood Precursors to Psychopathy. Psychiatry Ann. 2015 Apr; 45(4):181-185. Smith MJ, Fleming MF, Wright MA, Jordan N, Humm LB, Olsen D, & Bell MD. (in press). Job offers among adults with severe mental illness after virtual reality job interview training. Psychiatric Services. Kichler, J., Harris, M. & Weissberg-Benchell, J. (in press). Contemporary Roles of the Pediatric Psychologist in Diabetes Care. In Current Diabetes Review’s Contemporary Faces of Diabetes Care for Youth and Young Adults in the 21st Century: Evolution in the Roles of the Patient and Family, the Diabetes Provider, the Behavioral Health/Psychologist, and the Diabetes Online Community. Barnard, K, Weissberg-Benchell, J., Hood, K., Laffel, L., Aldred, C., & Oliver, N. (in press). Psychosocial Assess-ment of Artificial Pancreas (AP) Commentary and Review of Existing Measures and Their Applicability in AP Re-search, Diabetes Technology and Therapeutics.

Media

Matthew J Smith, PhD was interviewed by Northwestern University Media Relations, WGN News, and the Chi-cago Tribune about his research on Virtual Reality Job Interview Training for Veterans with PTSD and Individu-als with Severe Mental Illness.

Official NU press release by Marla Paul http://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2015/06/virtual-training-helps-vets-with-ptsd,-mentally-ill-nab-more-jobs.html?utm_campaign=&utm_medium=email&utm_source=enews

WGN TV news report by Katharine Czink and Julie Unruh

http://wgntv.com/2015/06/11/new-tool-helps-vets-fighting-ptsd-with-interview-skills/

Chicago Tribune report by John Carpenter: http://www.chicagotribune.com/bluesky/originals/ct-northwestern-study-molly-porter-bsi-20150701-story.html

Lei Wang, PhD and his team conducted a meta-analysis across the 15 studies to look for an aggregate effect of schizophrenia on brain volumes. The story about the study has been published.

Official NU press release by Nora Dunne:

http://news.feinberg.northwestern.edu/2015/07/analyzing-brain-structure-in-schizophrenia/

Crystal Clark, MD, MSc, psychiatry is quoted on the practice of placentophagy in multiple media outlets:

NPR report by Tara Haelle: http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/06/04/411990944/placenta-pills-gain-fans-among-new-moms-but-benefits-are-elusive?live=1

Other media coverage: https://news.google.com/news/story?ncl=dEiI1_mQH3O-ftMpnULcPAdXuUDfM&q=archives+of+women%27s+health&lr=English&hl=en&sa=X&ei=RuVxVZP4MYqbyASnsIHQDw&ved=0CCIQqgIwAQ

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please email Rachel Rodriguez at rrodrig3@nm.org for information.

Weissberg-Benchell, J. Students with Diabetes (SWD) is a non-profit, weekend-long conference dedicated to meeting the educational and psychosocial needs of individuals with type 1 diabetes between the ages of 18 and 30. She gave two workshops for this group in May, 2015: One on preventing diabetes burnout and the other on body image. Jill Weissberg-Benchell, Ph.D., served as a member of a research advisory board for Roche Diagnostics. She is advising Roche on research methodology and practices as they develop a study assessing the impact of a new technology for blood sugar monitoring communication.

Other News

Grants and Awards

Mina Dulcan, MD has been selected by Paramjit T. Joshi, MD, President of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, as a recipient of the 2015 Virginia Q. Anthony Outstanding Woman Leader Award.

Wei-Jen Huang, PhD is the recipient of Northwestern University’s 2015 Distinguished Service—Commitment to Excellence Award.

Weissberg-Benchell, J, Hood, K., Barnard, K and Laffel, L. (Co-I). Assessing the Psychosocial Aspects of Artifi-cial Pancreas Systems. Leona and Harry Helmsley Charitable Trust. Two years to assess stake-holders views of artificial pancreas systems and to develop reliable, valid and unified measures of the psychosocial impact of these technologies.

Jason Washburn and Linda Teplin enjoying

the lovely weather!

Mabel Cratty conference facility

Pictures from the 2015 Departmental Faculty

Retreat, June 5-6th at the George Williams

College of Aurora University

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Joan Anzia leading the ice breaker activ-

ity, looks like Jason Washburn is up next!

George Williams College of Aurora University,

a lakefront view

Joan Anzia, Mehmet Dokucu, Michael

Brook, Michael Fleming, Richard Car-

roll, Karen Breen, Hans Breiter, Neil

Jordan, Stephen Dinwiddie, Frances

Walls Rosenstein, Herbert Meltzer

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Building an Effective Clinical Team

workshop

Sitting: Mark Reinecke, Linda Teplin, Lei Wang

Standing: Katherine Wisner, Michael Brook,

Neil Jordan, James Reilly

Mark Reinecke, Nicholas Hatzis,

John Csernansky, Sheehan Fisher,

Sigita Plioplys, Suena Massey

Left side: Lei Wang, Cynthia Csernansk,

Michael Fleming,

Right side: Denise (Wang) Frances

Walls Rosenstein, John Csernansky