Welcome to ACLP News, our monthly roundup of Academy activities, initiatives and programs, and developments within the larger world of consultation-liaison psychiatry. Contributions are welcomed; please write to the editor at peter@CLpsychiatry.org.

2023

• September

• • Hackett Award Goes to Michael Sharpe, MA, MD, FACLP
    The Academy’s highest honor is presented to an individual for outstanding achievement in C-L Psychiatry
  • ‘Intervening Earlier is Critical’
    50% of all adult mental health conditions start before the age of 14 years; 75% before the age of 24
  • Top-Scoring Posters at CLP 2023
    Highlighting the excellent quality and breadth of submissions
  • A&E Abstracts and Extracts
    Selection from the latest research impacting C-L Psychiatry

• August

Special issue with reports from SIGS and Committees

• • A Potpourri of Challenges and Activities
    President’s Message from ACLP president, Maryland Pao, MD, FACLP
  • ACLP Board Message
    Message from E. Sherwood Brown, MD, PhD, DFAPA, MBA, FACLP,
    on behalf of the ACLP Board
  • Your Opportunity to Join Mentorship and Career-Consultation Programs
    ‘We encourage you to sign up (as mentor or mentee) and share information with your trainees and colleagues’
    
  • Check Out What the ACLP Committees are Doing
    Including round-up from all the Annual Meeting Subcommittees of what’s happening at CLP 2023
    
  • Check Out What the SIGs Are Doing
    … And how many members are already taking part in each group

• July

• • Results of the Biggest-Ever Randomized Trial of Inpatient C-L Psychiatry to be Presented at CLP 2023 Plenary
    Implications will be discussed in a linked workshop
  • Absence of Evidence from Randomized Controlled Trials Remains a Critical Gap in the Literature
    Proactive C-L Psychiatry SIG chair, Mark Oldham, MD, assesses the current evidence base for Proactive Psychiatry
  • Dear SIG Members…
    ‘Eventually we settled on a topic and our speakers, though we had many interested individuals and an abundance of potential material’
  • A&E Abstracts and Extracts
    Selection from the latest research impacting C-L Psychiatry

• June

• • Come the Mental Health Revolution
    Could it depend on the personal investment of neighborhood residents?
  • DEI Lens Spreading Across all Academy Operations Starts to Have Impact
    ‘Emphasis placed on addressing DEI in a substantive and thoughtful way’
  • ACLP Statement Regarding Annual Meeting Location Selections
    Maryland Pao, MD, ACLP President, and the ACLP Board
  • Virtual Q&A for Trainees Interested in C-L Psychiatry Fellowship
    Plus another case conference in June
    
  • A&E Abstracts and Extracts
    Selection from the latest research impacting C-L Psychiatry

• May

  • C-L Psychiatrists Are Integral to the Future of Mental Health
    —APA statement
  • Advanced Practice Providers: Colleagues or Competitors?
    As the US faces a projected psychiatrist shortage of between 14,000 and 31,000 by next year can APPs be part of the solution?
    
  • Academy to Seek Representation in the AMA’s House of Delegates
    ACLP members encouraged to join the AMA to support application
  • A&E Abstracts and Extracts
    Selection from the latest research impacting C-L Psychiatry

• April

  • Learning to ‘Do’ Research
    ‘Good clinical care leads inevitably to good clinical questions for which we need evidence’
  • Complexities Underlying Assessment and Risk Management in Alcohol Intoxicated Patients
    ‘Attendees will observe how C-L psychiatrists work through diagnostic challenges’
  • JACLP Launches Emergency Psychiatry Section
    ‘It will improve the science of emergency psychiatry and call attention to vital, understudied areas of C-L Psychiatry’
  • A&E Abstracts and Extracts
    Selection from the latest research impacting C-L Psychiatry

• March

  Special issue with reports from SIGS and Committees

  • It Started with a SIG
    From Maryland Pao, MD, FACLP, ACLP president
  • Interdisciplinary Team
    Evolution of a Multidisciplinary C-L Service
  • SIGs and SIG Numbers
    Check out what the SIGs are doing
  • ACLP Committees
    Check out what the Committees are doing
  • MIPS is Going Away, to be Replaced—by Something…Else
    Winners and losers in the changing quality payment game
  • Success for ACLP Members in APA Elections
    New president-elect takes 55.6% of the vote

• February

  • Fellowship Recruitment Maintains Virtual Interviewing Gains
    Academy seeking ‘opportunities for programs and applicants to have meaningful contact during the selection season’
  • Advanced Practice Provider Course for Interdisciplinary Team Colleagues
    ‘Working together…is much needed for improved health care outcomes’
  • The Vizient Scorecard—and Why It Matters to C-L Psychiatrists
    ACLP Quality & Safety SIG members have been tackling C-L Psychiatry’s ‘holy grail’—to demonstrate our value
  • Academy Past-President Wins Top Research Award
    ‘This award reflects the increasing profile of research in C-L Psychiatry’
  • I Want to Hold Your HAND!
    Two ACLP webinars this month…
  • Academy Fellows Invited to Apply for ACROSS Role
    Candidate application deadline is February 28
  • A&E Abstracts and Extracts
    Selection from the latest research impacting C-L Psychiatry

• January

  • C-L Psychiatrists: Unique Leaders in Quality and Safety
    ‘We are ideal drivers of better care in the hospital and primary care settings’
  • 988: A Turning Point in US Mental Health History
    As a critical review of crisis helplines is published we check out 988 progress
  • ACLP Bids to Participate in Residency Application Service
    ‘Participation in ERAS will centralize and simplify application and interviewing’
  • Vote NOW in the APA Elections
    Voting closes on January 31
  • A&E Abstracts and Extracts
    Selection from the latest research impacting C-L Psychiatry