Wednesday, December 8

Start Time	End Time	Session	Speakers
8:00 AM	5:00 PM	Pre-Conference Seminar: Improving Emergency Care For People With Behavioral Health Problems *additional fee to attend	Peter Brown, MA

Thursday, December 9

Start Time	End Time	Theme	Session	Speakers
7:30 AM	8:00 AM		Welcome Remarks	Les Zun, MD Kim Nordstrom, MD Michael Wilson, MD
8:00 AM	8:15 AM	Suicide Risk	Hotel Room Suicide: Cuyahoga, Orange, Travis, King, Clark, and Wayne County	Paul Zarkowski, MD
8:15 AM	8:30 AM	Suicide Risk	Not Just Suicide: Mortality After Emergency Psychiatric Care	Scott Simpson, MD, MPH
8:30 AM	8:45 AM	Suicide Risk	When Provider Bias Becomes Lethal: High Utilizers in the Emergency Department	Kelley-Anne Klein, MD Steven Runyan, DO
8:45 AM	9:00 AM	Suicide Risk	Panel Discussion	Paul Zarkowski, MD Scott Simpson, MD, MPH Kelley-Anne Klein, MD Steven Runyan, DO
9:00 AM	9:20 AM	Culture/Race	Iatrogenesis within Behavioral Emergencies: An Antiracist and Ethics Exploration	Carmen Black, MD
9:20 AM	9:50 AM	Culture/Race	Cultural Issues in Emergency Psychiatry	Junji Takeshita, MD
9:50 AM	10:00 AM	Culture/Race	Panel Discussion	Carmen Black, MD Junji Takeshita, MD
10:00 AM	10:10 AM	BREAK
10:10 AM	10:30 AM	Education/Teaching	How to Reach the Unreachable: An Evidence-based Curriculum to Teach Healthcare Disparities	Veronica Tucci, MD, JD, FAAEM, FACEP, FAIM
10:30 AM	10:50 AM	Education/Teaching	Learning the Ropes: How to Prepare Residents to Safely Manage Psychiatric Emergencies	Maryam Hosseini, MD Carolina Medeiros da Frota Ribeiro, MD
10:50 AM	11:00 AM	Education/Teaching	Panel Discussion	Veronica Tucci, MD, JD, FAAEM, FACEP, FAIM Maryam Hosseini, MD Carolina Medeiros da Frota Ribeiro, MD
11:00 AM	11:20 AM	Engagement	“I feel like there’s more to the story”: Guarding Versus Realness in Suicide Assessment (child assessment)	Jon Berlin, MD
11:20 AM	11:50 AM	Engagement	Feature: Patient Engagement and Empathy in the Era of the Open Note	Tony Thrasher, DO
11:50 AM	12:00 PM	Engagement	Panel Discussion	Jon Berlin, MD Tony Thrasher, DO
12:00 PM	12:45 PM	LUNCH & VISIT WITH EXHIBITORS
12:45 PM	1:15 PM	AAEP BUSINESS MEETING: OPEN TO ALL
1:15 PM	1:35 PM	Administration: Models	Overcoming Unforeseen Obstacles in Creating Your New EmPATH Unit	Scott Zeller, MD
1:35 PM	1:55 PM	Administration: Models	Emergency Behavioral Health: A 3-legged Stool	Philip Stawski, MD, MBA
1:55 PM	2:05 PM	Administration: Models	Panel Discussion	Scott Zeller, MD Philip Stawski, MD, MBA
2:05 PM	2:25 PM	Administration: BERT	Using a Behavioral Emergency Response Team (BERT) to foster culture change	David Seigler, MD, BS
2:25 PM	2:45 PM	Administration: Early Team Assessment	Benefits of Early Team Assessment in Patients Presenting to the ED with Behavioral Emergencies	Joe Uzpen, MPAS
2:45 PM	2:55 PM	BREAK
2:55 PM	3:15 PM	Administration: Prehospital Models	Models of Response to Behavioral Emergencies in the Community: Reimagining the Role of Police	Amy Watson, PhD
3:15 PM	3:45 PM	Administration: Prehospital Models	Crisis Coordination with Law Enforcement: Past, Present and Future	Christina Terrell, MD Charles Browning, MD Tony Thrasher, DO
3:45 PM	4:00 PM	Administration: Prehospital Models	Panel Discussion	Amy Watson, PhD Christina Terrell, MD Charles Browning, MD Tony Thrasher, DO
4:00 PM	4:20 PM	Administration: Patient-Centered	A Systems-based Approach to Providing Patient-centered Care to Behavioral Health Patients in the ED	Dana Im, MD, MPP, MPhil Daniel Rosen, PhD
4:20 PM	4:30 PM	Administration: Patient-Centered	Panel Discussion	Dana Im, MD, MPP, MPhil Daniel Rosen, PhD
4:30 PM	5:00 PM	Scientific Session
			Urban and Rural Emergency Department Psychiatric Services Research	Max Ellithorpe, BA, MA
			Dexmedetomidine Orally Dissolving Film (BXCL501) for the treatment of Acute Agitation Associated with Schizophrenia or Bipolar Disorder: SERENITY I and SERENITY II Clinical Trials	Scott Zeller, MD

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Thursday, December 9
Clinical Track

Start Time	End Time	Session	Speakers
1:15 PM	1:30 PM	Schizophrenia and Stimulant Use Disorder Masking Anoxic Brain Injury Secondary to Fentanyl Overdose	Varun Goel, MD Vivek Datta, MD, MPH
1:30 PM	1:45 PM	Deadly Disorders	Kim Nordstrom, MD, JD Michael Wilson, MD, PhD
1:45 PM	2:00 PM	A Case of Headache and Weakness Diagnosed as a Somatoform Disorder	Drew Castleberry, BS
2:00 PM	2:20 PM	Functional Neurological Disorders in the Emergency Department	Vivek Datta, MD, MPH
2:20 PM	2:35 PM	When Psychosis Originates Far from the Brain: A Mimic of Primary Psychiatric Illness	Adam Penrose Jen Brockmeyer, MD
2:35 PM	2:50 PM	Psychiatric or Organic? A Case of Anti-NMDA Receptor Encephalitis	Kenneth Rogoza, DO
2:50 PM	3:00 PM	BREAK
3:00 PM	3:15 PM	Not Stroke, Not Seizure, Just Delayed and Prolonged Duloxetine Toxicity	Andrew New, MD Ashley VanHaverbeck, DO
3:15 PM	4:00 PM	Featured: Journal Club	Kim Nordstrom, MD Michael Wilson, MD
4:00 PM	4:15 PM	“It Is Not What It Seems To Be”	Lidia Klepacz, MD Cezary Czeki, MD
4:15 PM	4:30 PM	EKG ‘Can’t Miss’ Harbingers of Sudden Cardiac Death Syndrome In Psychiatric Patients	Frank Meissner, MD, RDMS, RCDS Cynthia Garza, JD, MD
4:30 PM	5:00 PM	Scientific Sessions in General Session room

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Friday, December 10

Start Time	End Time	Theme	Session	Speakers
7:45 AM	8:00 AM		Day 2 Opening Remarks	Kim Nordstrom, MD Michael Wilson, MD
8:00 AM	8:30 AM	Child: Boarding	The Development and Preliminary Data Analysis of a Pediatric Boarding Consensus Guidelines	Vera Feuer, MD Nasuh Malas
8:30 AM	9:00 AM	Child: Agitation	Disruptive Patients: Can We Predict It?	Meghan Schott, DO, FAPA
9:00 AM	9:30 AM	Wellness	Humor in Emergency Psychiatry	David Pepper, MD
9:30 AM	9:50 AM	Agitation: Treatment	The Debate over Ketamine	Les Zun, MD
9:50 AM	10:10 AM	Agitation: Treatment	When “5+2” Fails: Treatment Refractory Agitation Management	Priyanka Amin, MD
10:10 AM	10:20 AM	BREAK
10:20 AM	10:40 AM	Agitation: Treatment	Agitation Management: Neurobiological and Clinical Considerations	Christopher Miller, MD Vedrana Hodzic, MD Eric Weintraub, MD
10:40 AM	11:00 AM	Agitation: Treatment	Panel Discussion	Les Zun, MD Priyanka Amin, MD Christopher Miller, MD Vedrana Hodzic, MD Eric Weintraub, MD
11:00 AM	11:40 AM	Suicide Risk	Feature: Drunkicidal	Jennifer Peltzer-Jones, PsyD RN Priyanka Amin, MD
11:40 AM	12:00 PM	Suicide Risk	Panel Discussion	Les Zun, MD Jennifer Peltzer-Jones, PsyD RN Priyanka Amin, MD
12:00 PM	1:00 PM	LUNCH & VISIT WITH EXHIBITORS
1:00 PM	1:30 PM	Suicide Risks: Assessments	Beyond “Denies SI/HI:” Conducting and Utilizing Risk Assessments to Improve Patient Care	Layla Soliman, MD Adrienne Saxton, MD
1:30 PM	2:00 PM	Suicide Risks: Fireman Safety	Discussing Firearm Safety Across the Age Spectrum	Jennifer Zaspel, MD Tony Thrasher, DO
2:00 PM	2:30 PM	Perinatal Psych Crisis	Pregnant or Postpartum Patients in Psychiatric Crises: What’s the Emergency Provider to Do?	Katherine Camfield, MD, MPH Emily Dossett
2:30 PM	2:40 PM	BREAK
2:40 PM	3:00 PM	Child: Agitation	Quality Improvement for Pediatric Acute Agitation in the Emergency Department	Jennifer Hoffmann, MD
3:00 PM	3:30 PM	Wellness	Soft Targets: Personal Security Considerations for Emergency Mental Health Professionals	Jack Rozel, MD, MSL
3:30 PM	4:00 PM	Human Trafficking	The Silent Victims Among Us: Identification and Treatment of Human Trafficking Victims in the Hospital	Megan Schabbing, MD
4:00 PM	4:30 PM	Special Populations: ID/DD	Connecting the Dots Between Adverse Behaviors and Treatable Underlying Health Conditions in ID/DD	Craig Escude, MD, FAAFP, FAADM
4:30 PM	5:00 PM		Closing Remarks	Kim Nordstrom, MD Michael Wilson, MD