Congratulations to the below faculty, clinical faculty, residents, and former residents for their involvement in the 2014 American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 61st annual meeting https://aacap.confex.com/aacap/2014/webprogram/start.html:

Ruby Agoha, M.D.

• Clinical Perspectives – High-Tech Tools for Integration

Daniel Alicata, M.D., Ph.D.

• Symposium – Special Interest Study Group – Building a Community of Telepsychiatrists in AACAP
• Clinical Perspectives  – Telepsychiatry with Children of the Pacific Islands: Curriculum Development, Service-Learning, and Culturally Appropriate Care
• Brain Development Trajectories and Risk Gene Variants for Neuropsychiatric Disorders

Alexis Aplasca, M.D.

• Clinical Perspectives – Weight Management in Children with Psychiatric Disorders
• Clinical Perspectives – Focus on the Future: Academic Pediatrics and Child Psychiatry As the Foundation for Integration

Anthony P.S. Guerrero, MD

• Special Interest Study Group – Problem-Based Learning in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
• Clinical Perspectives – Academic Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in the Far East

Daniel Lieberman, M.D.

• Special Interest Study Group – Building a Community of Telepsychiatrists in AACAP
• Clinical Perspectives  – Telemental Health Interventions: Expanding Our Repertoire: The Use of Telepsychiatry to Treat a Teen with Complex Trauma and Dissociative Identify States
• Clinical Perspectives – Practicing Telepsychiatry Across Cultures
• Workshop – Designing and Conducting a Successful Telepsychiatry Program
• Clinical Perspectives – The Use of Telepsychiatry to Treat a Teen with Complex Trauma and Dissociative Identify States
• Committee Meeting – Telepsychiatry Committee

Ryan Lunsford, M.D.

• Clinical Perspectives – Telepsychiatry with Children of the Pacific Islands: Curriculum Development, Service-Learning, and Culturally Appropriate Care

Jack McDermott, MD

• Clinical Perspectives – Behind the Undeclared War Between Child and Family Therapy

Amanda Schroepfer, M.D .

• Clinical Perspectives – Body and Soul: A Look at the History, Challenges and Hopes for Child Mental Health Integration into Pediatric Primary Care

• Thank you to Dr. Chad Koyanagi for his nine years of service that will end after June 8, 2014.
• Dr. David Lassner appointed as University of Hawaii President, term to start July 1, 2014.
• Congratulations to Drs. Charles Fishman and Gerald McKenna for promotion to Clinical Professor effective July 1, 2014.
• Dr. Gretchen Gavero presented at the Philippine Medical Association of Hawaii on Perspectives on Medical Marijuana, a CME event.
• Dr. Deborah Kissinger’s abstract for presentation has been accepted for the 95th Annual Meeting at University of California Riverside in June 2014.  The abstract is entitled Experience Culture to Better Understand Others.