Mental Health on the PRMS Blog

Advancing Mental Health Support and Advocacy To further Professional Risk Management Services’ (PRMS) enduring dedication to supporting mental health and the organizations aligned with this cause, we proudly launched the PRMS Partners in the Community Grant (PPCG) this past Spring 2024, inviting partners to nominate local non-profits that enhance mental healthcare in their comm ...

As part of our ongoing commitment to behavioral health, PRMS is pleased to feature Dr. Alyssa Ciera Smith, PGY-4 psychiatry resident at the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis, IN, and a member of the Indiana Psychiatric Society, as a guest blogger this month. Dr. Smith shares more about her experience attending the Federal Advocacy Conference last October in ...

As part of PRMS’ ongoing efforts to support the behavioral healthcare community and to promote the organizations that work towards this mission, we are pleased to highlight our partner, the Queens County Psychiatric Society (QCPS), and President of QCPS Dr. Maria Chona P. San Gabriel, DFAPA, as our featured guest blogger. Dr. San Gabriel, Program Director for the Psychiatry Res ...

As part of PRMS’ ongoing efforts to support the behavioral healthcare community and to promote the organizations that work towards this mission, we are pleased to highlight our partner, the American Society for Adolescent Psychiatry (ASAP), and Dr. Aaron Krasner, President of ASAP and a Board-Certified Child and Adolescent and Adult psychiatrist in Wilton, CT, as a featured gue ...

As part of PRMS’ ongoing commitment to mental health, we are pleased to feature Tarak Vasavada, MD, President of the Indo-American Psychiatric Association, Medical Director of Huntsville Hospital Behavior Health Services, clinical professor of psychiatry at the UAB School of Medicine and creator of the HappyMindMD website for healthcare workers. Dr. Vasavada shares more about t ...

Dr. Tarak Vasavada (fourth from right) at a volunteer event to appreciate nurses. As part of PRMS’ ongoing commitment to mental health, we are pleased to feature Tarak Vasavada, MD, President-Elect of the Indo-American Psychiatric Association, Medical Director of Huntsville Hospital Behavior Health Services, clinical professor of psychiatry at the UAB School of Medicine and cr ...

In keeping with PRMS’ mission to support the greater behavioral health community, we invited Bairavi Maheswaran, a medical student at NYTICOM and volunteer with the South Asian Mental Health Initiative and Network (SAMHIN), to share her perspective on how medical students cope with the challenges that medical school presents. PRMS is proud to support our partner, SAMHIN, and it ...

As part of PRMS’ ongoing efforts to support the behavioral healthcare community and to promote the organizations that work towards this mission, we are pleased to share an update on the Psychiatry Outreach Program (POP) at the Jackson Free Clinic in Mississippi. POP was started by members of the Mississippi Psychiatric Association, and PRMS has previously posted two articles, f ...

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 ...

*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 ...