Stony Brook University Consultation Liaison Psychiatry Department

This is an interesting article highlighting what Psychiatrists can do during the COVID resurgence: Take an active stance, preven the spread of COVID to the mentally ill, rethin current treatment options, analyze the effects of the current crisis and spread our knowledge to residents and students who will become the future of psychiatry. Click the link below for more information! https://jamanetwork.com//fullarticle/10.1001/jamapsychiatr

We are pleased to share that Brian Bronson, Director of CL Psychiatry, is a moderator and speaker for a CL leadership workshop, Four Management Topics in CL Psychiatry, for presentation at the upcoming ACLP 2020 Virtual Annual Conference. Dr. Bronson will provide background regarding a recent National CL Directors Needs Survey that identified important management topics. Carlos Fernandez-Robles from Massachusetts General will speak on Data as the Keystone for Service Devel...opment. Dev Thakur from Dartmouth Hitchcock will speak on Role for Non-Physician Clinical Staff on a Psychiatry CL Service. Ken Novoa from Denver Medical Center will talk on Teaching Multi-Level Learners on a Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Service, and Junji Takeshita from University of Hawaii will speak on Top Ten Billing & Coding Tips for CL Psychiatry. The workshop will be available for all conference registrants to watch virtually at their convenience. See more

Congratulations to Dr. Brian Bronson on his recently approved publication titled "The Management Experiences, Priorities and Challenges of Medical Directors in the Subspecialty of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry: Results of a Needs Assessment." This article will appear in a future issue of the Psychosomatics journal. We all are looking forward to learn more about this article as it highlights challenges that CL psychiatry fellowship directors face routinely. Congrats Dr. Bronson.

We proudly welcome June Feinstein, nurse practitioner, to our CL psychiatry department. We look forward to restarting our integrated care initiative with the help and presence of June who became integral to this initiative when it was up and running in the past. Integrated psychiatric care on the medical floor was begun by the CL department leaders, including Dr. Bronson. The purpose of this initiative was to develop a proactive service that could identify patients that need psychiatric care early on in their medical hospital course and to attempt to shorten length of stay. We are in the process of restarting this service and are excited to have June Feinstein with us once again!

Congratulations to one of our CL faculty Dr. Mason Chacko for his recent accepted publication of a case report titled "COVID-19-induced psychosis and suicidal behavior." We look forward to reading the article once it is indexed and available for all.