Psychiatrists on the PRMS Blog

As part of PRMS’ ongoing commitment to behavioral health, we are pleased to feature Doctors Asha Martin, Alan Rodriguez Penney, Gabrielle Shapiro, and Olga Koblova, members of the New York County Psychiatric Society (NYCPS), as guest bloggers this month, to reflect on how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected their psychiatric practices over the last year. How did COVID change th ...

As part of PRMS’ ongoing commitment to behavioral health, we are pleased to feature Florida Psychiatric Society’s (FPS) Kendra Adams, Executive Director, and Yasmin Khan-Hohensee, MBA, MSW, Assistant Director, as guest bloggers this month to share more information about the new FPS leadership program for Chief Residents, RIPPLE.  In addition to impacting performance, Chief Resi ...

*This piece is edited from an original article published in the Spring 2021 Community Psychiatrist newsletter. As part of our ongoing commitment to mental health, PRMS invited Michael Flaum, MD, President of the American Association for Community Psychiatry, to guest post about the state of mental healthcare coverage. Dr. Flaum discusses the Wit v. United Behavioral Health UBH ...

*This piece is a re-print from the Spring Edition of the Journal of the Mississippi Psychiatric Association.   As part of PRMS’ ongoing commitment to behavioral health, we are pleased to feature Doctors Chasity Torrence, FAPA, and Dustyn Baker, co-founders of the Psychiatry Outreach Program (POP) in Jackson, Mississippi, as guest bloggers this month, reflecting on the impact PO ...

In recognition of National Doctor's Day, the team at PRMS would like to thank all healthcare providers and acknowledge the important work of psychiatrists and their dedication to the mental health and well-being of their patients. It is an honor to be of service to psychiatrists throughout the country for the last 34 years. Thank you, psychiatrists! To learn about the history ...

As part of PRMS’ ongoing commitment to behavioral health, we invited Doctor William Silver, PGY-III Psychiatry Resident at the University of Mississippi Medical Center Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, to be featured as a guest blogger this month. Dr. Silver reflects on his experience attending the first virtual Spring Meeting co-hosted by the Louisiana Psychiatric M ...

In furtherance of our mission to support the greater behavioral health community, PRMS is pleased to highlight Cesar Cardenas, Jr., MD, a member of the Mississippi Psychiatric Association and a PGY-5 at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. Dr. Cardenas was awarded with the American Psychiatric Association’s Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship and we invited him ...

This past November was Military Families Month, and in keeping with PRMS’ mission to support the greater behavioral health community, we invited Rachel Sullivan, MD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Behavioral Health and Associate Program Director for Psychiatry Residency at Tripler Army Medical Center in Honolulu, HI – and a past PRMS Psych-cess speaker – to share her ...

As a part of PRMS’ ongoing commitment to behavioral health, we invited Russell Tobe, MD, and Suhal Shah, DO, to contribute as guest bloggers this month, reflecting on their experience as a mentor and mentee in the West Hudson Psychiatric Society’s (WHPS) Mentorship Program. Russell Tobe, MD – Department Director, Clinical Evaluation Center at the Nathan Kline Institute for Psyc ...

World Patient Safety Day, established by the World Health Organization (WHO) in an effort to recognize patient safety as a global health priority, takes place annually on September 17, and PRMS Director of Risk Management, Donna Vanderpool, MBA, JD, recently shared her thoughts on the subject to members of the Florida Psychiatric Society. To further the efforts of mental health ...