WASHINGTON PSYCHIATRIC SOCIETY

cordially invites you to

CAREER, LEADERSHIP & MENTORSHIP PROGRAM DINNER:
Healing the Healers


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REGISTRATION INFORMATION & FEES:
WPS Member Resident/Fellow $FREE
Non-Member Resident/Fellow $20
WPS Member $40
Non-Member Psychiatrist/ Non-Psychiatrist/ Other $60
Please RSVP by October 12, 2018. Space is limited!
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MODERATOR/DISCUSSANT PRESENTERS
 - Eliot Sorel M.D., DLFAPA is an innovative global health leader, educator, health systems performance expert, and a practicing physician. At the George Washington University, in Washington, DC, Dr. Sorel is the lead physician teaching Global Health Systems Performance and Global Mental Health. He is Clinical Professor of Global Health, Health Policy & Management and of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences. He is founder & chair of the Youth Democracy Forum at the Elliott School of International Affairs. He chairs the Access to Care Committee of the American Psychiatric Association. In June 2018, he was the President of the 1st International Perinatal TOTAL Health Congress.. Dr. Sorel is the lead author of Healthcare, Inclusive of Mental Healthcare, Is a Human Right which is now APA policy since December 10, 2017. Dr. Sorel coauthored the APA Statement on Integrated Care in 2016 and the WPA Bucharest Statement on Integrated Care & Collaborative Care in 2015. He is a member of the Oversight Committee of the US Health Disparities Transdisciplinary Collaborative Center at the Satcher Health Leadership Institute with a focus on Non-communicable diseases in Region 4 of the United States. 21st Century Global Mental Health is the most recent of seven books edited by Dr. Sorel. His most recent publication is Translating Scientific Evidence into Global Health Policy.

  - Richard A. Chefetz, M.D. is a psychiatrist in private practice in Washington, D.C. He was President of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (2002-3), Co-Founder and Chair of their Dissociative Disorders Psychotherapy Training Program (2000-2008, and is a Distinguished Visiting Lecturer at the William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and Psychology. He is also a faculty member at the Washington School of Psychiatry, the Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis, and the Washington Center for Psychoanalysis. He recently published a book with Norton (2015), in their Interpersonal Neurobiology series, Intensive Psychotherapy for Persistent Dissociative Processes: The Fear of Feeling Real.

   - Esther Bilenkis, M.D. is a PGY-II Psychiatry Resident at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Washington DC. She graduated from New York College of Osteopathic Medicine in May 2017. She is a member of the APA Caucus on Complementary, Alternative, & Integrative Medicine and WPS CLM Committee. Her interests include mindfulness, complementary and alternative medicine, women’s health, and nutrition. She also has a special interest in resident well-being and preventing burnout.

   - Cristina Secarea, M.D. is a Forensic Psychiatry Fellow at Saint Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, DC. She completed her psychiatry residency training from the same program in June 2018. She is the Chair of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) Assembly Committee of Resident-Fellow Members (RFM) and the Area 3 RFM Representative. In her current leadership roles, Dr. Secarea is committed to advocate for residents and fellows at the local and national level. She continues to emphasize the importance of resident’s well-being by supporting and empowering residents to speak up and reach out to one another. Dr. Secarea presented on the subject of resident’s well-being during the Career Leadership Mentorship Program of WPS, and the World Congress of Psychiatry, in Berlin, Germany in 2018.