Inside the Supreme Court and More From APA’s 2016 Annual Meeting

Highlights from Day Four Our coverage of APA’s Annual Meeting continues with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer’s address on the inside workings of the Supreme Court; a report on the results of an APA poll on “phantom” insurance networks; and the continued debate over the ethics of involuntary outpatient commitment laws. Justice Stephen Breyer Gives Inside Look at Country’s Highest CourtU.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer spoke today at APA’s 2016 Annual Meeting in Atlanta about his latest book, The Court and the World: American Law and the New Global Realities, and what it’s like to work at the highest court in the land. Read More > Frieden Calls for Joining Psychiatry, Public Health During Convocation LectureThomas Frieden, M.D., M.P.H., director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told attendees at APA’s Convocation of Distinguished Fellows that depression and severe mental illness, alcoholism, opioid addiction, suicide, HIV/AIDS, and a host of other conditions are amenable to solutions that look at broad societal influences, as well as the factors that influence individual behavior. Read More > Psychiatry Plays an Important Role in Palliative Care, Experts SayIn a session at today’s Annual Meeting, Nathan Fairman, M.D., M.P.H., and Scott A. Irwin, M.D., Ph.D., described the expanding interface between palliative medicine and psychiatry and opportunities for psychiatrists to enhance the care of seriously ill patients a...
Source: Psychiatr News - Category: Psychiatry Tags: Anita Everett Ezra Griffith Ivan Montaya Jeffrey Swanson Kim Janda Marvin Swartz Nathan Fairman Scott A. Irwin Stephen Breyer Steven Sharfstein Thomas Frieden Thomas Jenkins Source Type: research