Psychiatry Student Interest Group Events

The Psychiatry Student Interest Group had the following events in 2023-2024, organized by Vivian Wang and Irving Barrera Lopez:

• Networking Dinner for psychiatry faculty and students
   
• Holiday Gingerbread House Competition
   
• Film Screening of “Unfixed Mind: Navigating Mental Health Today” followed by Q&A with cast members and Dr. Anne Brewster, author of the Healing Power of Storytelling: Using Personal Narrative to Navigate Illness, Trauma, and Loss, in collaboration with Kimberly Warner of Unfixed Media.
   
• Book Talk by Bessel van der Kolk
   
• Book talk by Robert Waldinger, MD, on the Good Life
   
• Storytelling in Psychiatry with Zheala Qayyum, MD, MMSc, and Maria Tatar, PhD
   
• Youth Mental Health Panel with Sarah Bagley, MD, Christine Crawford, MD, MPH, Eric Fleegler, MD, MPH, and Kevin Simon, MD, MPH
   
• Panel on preparing for psychiatry residency featuring ten post-match students
   
• Panel on the ethical issues of palliative care for “terminal” eating disorders
   
• Psychedelics Symposium featuring pioneers in the field like Jerrold Rosenbaum, MD, and David Olson, PhD, Cristina Cusin, MD, Sharmin Ghaznavi, MD, PhD, Stephen MacCarthy, PhD