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Total attendance at this year’s annual meeting has broken all records with 1,418 registered delegates.
ACLP president Maryland Pao, MD, FACLP, and scientific program chair for CLP 2023 Sejal Shah, MD, FACLP, welcomed delegates before Joshua Gordon, MD, PhD, director of the National Institute of Mental Health, advocated integrated care across the lifespan at the start of the first plenary, titled Research Directions in C-L Psychiatry: Where We Are and Where We’re Going.
Michael Sharpe, MA, MD, FACLP, and Jane Walker, MBChB, PhD, FACLP, followed with results of their HOME Study, the largest randomized trial of C-L Psychiatry to date, which evaluated the effect of proactive and integrated C-L Psychiatry on the time older people spend in hospital.
Jane Walker, MBChB, PhD, FACLP and Michael Sharpe, MA, MD, FACLP
The audience heard about the unpublished results of this major study, and their implications. Dr Sharpe started a discussion, which will be continued in a workshopon Saturday morning, about what inpatient C-L Psychiatry services should look like and what C-L Psychiatry is for. He encouraged ACLP members to be proud of what they do, to continue to listen to their physician colleagues pleas to help them provide better care for their patients, and to be mindful of the virtuous relationship between C-L Psychiatry research and practice.
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.
If you are a C-L Psychiatrist and not yet a member please join our great organization and welcoming, inclusive community. Please visit this page for details on joining.
