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In our series highlighting general sessions at this year’s ACLP Annual Meeting…
Innovations in Translational C-L Psychiatry
Careers enhanced by the Academy’s scholarship and research colloquium
Three early-career C-L psychiatrists from institutions across the country will provide a window into the innovative work they are pursuing to establish new approaches to long-standing clinical challenges.
Their scientific investigations target a breadth of conditions from heart failure to delirium, with techniques that span optical neuroimaging to circular RNA to retinal biomarkers.
Each investigator will highlight how their scholarly efforts have benefited from ACLP’s Developing Scholarship and Research Colloquium (featured in ACLP News here).
Joy Choi, MD .
Joy Choi, MD, will discuss her research on using retinal biomarkers to elucidate mechanistic links underlying cognitive impairment in patients with heart failure. She will review the main hypotheses behind development of cognitive impairment in heart failure, while highlighting the core of her research—vascular contributions to cognitive impairment in heart failure. She will also provide an overview of oculomics, a field of using ocular imaging as biomarkers of systemic disease processes, with a focus on the emerging use of oculomics in Psychiatry.
The colloquium helped her find a community of supportive peers and senior mentors when navigating the complex and challenging landscape of research as an early-career physician and researcher.
William Wylie, MD
William Wylie, MD, will discuss the emerging field of circular RNA biology and potential connections to delirium. He will summarize current literature on circular RNAs in other syndromes of altered cognition, then present evidence supporting the hypothesis that altered circRNA levels are associated with delirium.
Dr. Wylie will describe the impact of the colloquium on his research and how it has developed since 2023.
Shixie Jiang, MD
Shixie Jiang, MD, will share his research on the use of optical neuroimaging as a novel approach to mapping brain networks in delirium and long-term cognitive impairment after delirium. He will provide an overview of the limitations of current delirium imaging biomarkers and highlight how optical imaging may offer a portable, accessible, and three-dimensional alternative to traditional functional neuroimaging techniques.
Dr. Jiang will also discuss his broader research interests in advancing neuroimaging techniques for C-L psychiatrists and share how the colloquium has supported his transition from clinical training to establishing a research career.
Rebekah Nash, PhD, MD
Moderator will be Rebekah Nash, PhD, MD, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, who developed the session Translational Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Research in coordination with the early-career investigators. The session is scheduled for Thursday, November 20, at 12:45 PM.
The Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry is a professional organization of physicians who provide psychiatric care to people with coexisting psychiatric and medical illnesses, both in hospitals and in primary care. Our specialty is called consultation-liaison psychiatry because we consult with patients and liaise with their other clinicians about their care.
With nearly 2,000 members, the Academy is the voice of consultation-liaison psychiatry in the US with international reach.
Please browse our website, read our journal, Psychosomatics, and come to our annual meeting which is in November each year. In 2020 it will be a virtual event – see www.CLP2020.org for more details.
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