The Medical Psychiatry Alliance (MPA) at the University of Toronto is currently recruiting candidates for our 2018/2019 MPA NP Fellowship. The fellowships are scheduled to commence in July 2019 and the application deadline is Friday January 4, 2019

The Medical Psychiatry Alliance (MPA) at the University of Toronto is currently recruiting candidates for our 2018/2019 MPA Fellowships. The fellowships are scheduled to commence in July 2019 and the application deadline is Friday January 4, 2019.

ACT in ACTion: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy at SickKids, - presented by Dr. Sara Ahola Kohut, Dr. Danielle Ruskin, Mary Bell and Sara Marlowe

iMPAct: Exceptional Experiences in Mental & Physical Health Care (MPA Annual Conference 2018)
October 2
 

We are now accepting poster abstracts for the Annual Medical Psychiatry Alliance (MPA) Conference (October 2nd) which is being held in Mississauga, Ontario this year! The MPA is dedicated to transforming the delivery of health services for patients living with mental and physical illness. The theme this year is integration and partnerships. All submissions are welcomed and encouraged! The deadline for submission is Tuesday, July 31st at 11:59 EST. Please click the link above for more information.

Hold the date in your calendars! The 2018 MPA Annual Conference this year will take place from Oct 2 in Mississauga, ON. Stay tuned for more info.

This free Medical Psychiatry Collaborative Care Certificate module will address the complex relationship between sleep and mental illness. Participants will learn to apply a comprehensive approach to assessing and managing sleep complaints in patients with psychiatric and medical comorbidities, as well as how to develop a care plan in collaboration with inter-professional team members and patients to support patients' sleep management. Register now!

This free Medical Psychiatry Collaborative Care Certificate module will feature an inter-professional approach to managing complexities in patients wtih response behaviours of dementia, including the topics of: differentiating between delirium and dementia, approaches to behaviour assessment, caregiving strategies to minimize responsive behaviours, and communication approaches. Register now!

The SickKids' Neurosciences and Mental Health Program in affiliation with the University of Toronto Division of Child and Youth Mental Health and the Medical Psychiatry Alliance is hosting this research event based on integrating health care for children, youth and families. Free registration. Poster submissions also welcome.

Presented by Drs. Laura Naismith and Chris Kowalski, these Grand Rounds at CAMH look at how simulation can enhance the effectiveness of interprofessional care. Open to everyone.

This Medical Psychiatry Collaborative Care Certificate (MP3C) module workshop will feature an inter-professional approach to managing complexities in patients with delirium. Free of cost, and open to all health care providers.

This Medical Psychiatry Collaborative Care (MP3C) module will use case-based learning to teach participants when to apply CBT principles in their work for managing patients with co-occurring mental and physical health conditions through using an integrative and comprehensive approach. Open to all health care providers, free of cost.

Dr. Kristin Cleverley presents MPA Grand Rounds at The Hospital for Sick Children, looking at current best practices for transitioning youth out of child and adolescent mental health services and preliminary findings from the Longitudinal Youth in Transition Study (LYiTS). Open to everyone.

Through a new approach to the education of health professionals, the MPA is offering opportunities for fellowship programs in the 2017/18 academic year that fosters innovation, integration and leadership at the interface between mental and physical health. Deadline is Dec. 20, 2017.

Mental Health Education Beyond the Classroom: An Introduction to MEET, iSPEACC-CY and GPS-Care - MPA Grand Rounds at SickKids

Check out these MPA Rounds at SickKids, focusing on MOBYSS (Mobile York South Simcoe),Ontario’s first walk-in clinic on wheels providing physical and mental health services for youth.

This year’s annual MPA conference is titled ‘A Matter of Life: New Approaches to Care for Patients with Physical and Severe Mental Illness.’ The event will be hosted by CAMH at the Chelsea Hotel on October 6. Registration is now closed.

Titled “Assessing Capacity: The Legal and Medical Rights of Youth -- The Clinical Dilemma” this special MPA presentation features speaker Dr. Rose Geist. Everyone is welcome.

Presented by Drs. Valerie Taylor and Paul Kurdyak, this presentation at CAMH looks at how we can improve medical care for patients with complex mental illness. Join us in person or live via webcast.

Presented by Dr. Tricia Williams, Neuropsychologist at SickKids, these Grand Rounds are titled “One brain, one child: Optimizing mental health outcomes in children and families following early brain injury.” Join us on Apr. 6 in person, or via videoconference.

Titled “Exploring the Relationship between Attachment and Somatization,” these special MPA rounds will take place at SickKids and feature Dr. Robert Maunder, MPA Director of Body-Brain Integration. Open to everyone.

This year’s annual conference is titled “Collaborative approaches for children and youth with co-existing physical and mental health conditions.” The event will be hosted by SickKids at the Peter Gilgan Centre for Research and Learning on October 5-6, 2016. Registration closes Sept. 28 — book your spot now!

This 23rd Mount Sinai Academic Day will feature welcome remarks from Dr. Benoit Mulsant, MPA Executive Director, and by Dr. Robert Maunder, Interim MPA Director of Body – Brain Integration. The day’s agenda also includes a presentation by Dr. Valerie Taylor, who is leading the MPA-CAMH Brain-Heart Service.

The Centre for Brain & Mental Health at SickKids is hosting its inaugural Advocacy Day Conference: Building Connections, Accelerating Impact. The line-up of speakers for day also includes the Hon. Kirsty Duncan, Minister of Science. Free admission, however, registration is required.

Co-hosted by the MPA, Trillium Health Partners and the Ontario Psychiatric Association, this special lecture focuses on collaborative care and its role in increasing access to mental health care. Everyone is welcome to attend.

Eating disorders are a serious illness with life threatening physical and mental health morbidity and mortality. Management of patients with eating disorders is complex and calls upon inter-professional skills that are best managed in a collaborative framework. This module will use case-based learning to help attendees to understand the etiology, prevalence, assessment tools, principles of medical management and treatment for anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa.

This workshop addresses the association between mental health and obesity from both adult and pediatric perspectives. It identifies and explains the difference in treatment approach when working with each of these populations. During this workshop, facilitators will introduce and explain mental health approaches used to target patient engagement as well as cognitive and behavioral patterns that may interfere with physical health and emotional wellbeing.