Idaho Psychiatric Association

05/12/2023

https://idahopsychiatric.org/annual-conference-attendee-registration/

2023 Attendees:
IPA 2023 Annual CME Conference has been postponed until the Fall of 2023. Finalized date will be announced shortly. Please check back soon!

This year’s conference will focus on “Advocacy and Beyond – The Intersection of Stigma, Bias, and Gun Control”. Topics will include Anti-Racism / Bias, Advocacy, Assessing Violence, and more! The full schedule is linked below! Contact Mike Oster at [email protected] or 208-344-7888 ext 102 with questions. We hope to see you there!

2023 Attendees: IPA 2023 Annual CME Conference has been postponed until the Fall of 2023. Finalized date will be announced shortly. Please check back soon! This year’s conference will focus on “Advocacy and Beyond – The Intersection of Stigma, Bias, and Gun Control”. Topics will include Anti...

05/01/2023

UPDATE: This year's conference has been reschedule for October 27th, stay tuned for more details!

Psychiatric Residents (with resident ID) are FREE!
https://idahopsychiatric.org/annual-conference-attendee-registration/

Don’t miss out on the conversation! Our theme this year is “ADVOCACY AND BEYOND” and we are hosting three renowned speakers with a great line-up of topics including:

💥 Anti-Racism / Bias, Chelsea Gaona-Lincoln: Activist, Lobbyist & Political Consultant
💥 Advocacy 101, Chelsea Gaona-Lincoln
Balancing Threat Assessment and Risk Management within the Mental Health Framework, Tony Thrasher, D.O., MBA, DFAPA
💥 How to Talk to Our Community About Firearm Risk and Mitigation Strategies, Tony Thrasher, D.O., MBA, DFAPA
💥 Climate Change and Its Myriad Effects on Mental Health, Ethan J. Sims, MD

The UMA Foundation designates this live activity for a maximum of 5.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.

Contact Mike Oster at [email protected] or 208-344-7888 ext, 102 with questions.
We hope to see you there!

Includes Breakfast, Lunch & CME

05/01/2023

💥 UPDATE: This year's conference has been reschedule for October 27th, stay tuned for more details!

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/idaho-psychiatric-association-annual-conference-tickets-541355939187

Practitioners of all types are welcome and encouraged to attend. Use Promo Code IPA2023 and SAVE 50% OFF!

Our theme this year is “ADVOCACY AND BEYOND”. We are thrilled to be hosting three renowned speakers with a great line-up of topics including:
💥 Anti-Racism / Bias, Chelsea Gaona-Lincoln: Activist, Lobbyist & Political Consultant
💥 Advocacy 101, Chelsea Gaona-Lincoln
💥 Balancing Threat Assessment and Risk Management within the Mental Health Framework, Tony Thrasher, D.O., MBA, DFAPA
💥 How to Talk to Our Community About Firearm Risk and Mitigation Strategies, Tony Thrasher, D.O., MBA, DFAPA
💥 Climate Change and Its Myriad Effects on Mental Health, Ethan J. Sims, MD

Don't miss out!!!
The Idaho Psychiatric Association 2023 Annual CME Conference is taking place May 12th, 2023 in Meridian, Idaho.

The UMA Foundation designates this live activity for a maximum of 5.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.

Contact Mike Oster at [email protected] or 208-344-7888 ext 102 with questions.

We hope to see you there!

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05/01/2023

WHO WE ARE
https://idahopsychiatric.org/about-us/
MISSION: The Idaho Psychiatric Association works to improve treatment, rehabilitation, and care of Idahoans with mental disorders.

THE ROLE OF THE IDAHO PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION (IPA): The IPA is a membership organization that represents Idaho psychiatrists. IPA is a district branch of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and psychiatrists must be a member of the APA in order to join the IPA. Go HERE to join.

As you well know, mental health care benefits from a team-based approach to care. Given their extensive training in both medical and psychiatric conditions, it is important that psychiatrists be the team leaders, particularly in the inpatient psychiatric setting and when caring for patients with complex conditions.

To maintain the psychiatrist's position as the team leader, IPA uses its resources to promote the interests of psychiatrists in Idaho. IPA is committed to:

☑️ Bringing more psychiatrists to Idaho through the support of recruitment and retention of psychiatrists, as well as increasing the opportunities for the training of medical students and residents with an interest in psychiatric medicine

☑️ Fair and equitable insurance coverage of mental health conditions

☑️ Access to psychiatric care across Idaho, including in the most rural areas of the state, and working with Idaho insurers and the Idaho Department of Insurance

☑️ Educating legislators on psychiatric training and the importance of supporting psychiatrists in Idaho

☑️ Working in the Idaho Legislature to support or oppose proposed laws that effect psychiatry, with an eye toward the protection of patient health and safety

Psychiatrists are a critical component of the health care system and IPA works on behalf of Idaho’s psychiatrists to protect, maintain and promote the practice of psychiatry in Idaho.

04/25/2023

💥 UPDATE: This year's conference has been reschedule for October 27th, stay tuned for more details!

YOU ARE INVITED!!!
This year’s Idaho Psychiatric Association CME Conference will focus on “Advocacy and Beyond”. Topics will include Anti-Racism / Bias, Advocacy, Assessing Violence, and more!

We are hosting three national renowned speakers with a great line-up of topics including:
💥 Chelsea Gaona-Lincoln, Activist, Lobbyist & Political Consultant
- Anti-Racism / Bias
- Advocacy 101
💥 Tony Thrasher, D.O., MBA, DFAPA
- Balancing Threat Assessment and Risk - Management within the Mental Health Framework
- How to Talk to Our Community About Firearm Risk and Mitigation Strategies
💥 Ethan J. Sims, MD
- Climate Change and Its Myriad Effects on Mental Health

Register at https://idahopsychiatric.org/

Also included with your registration, IPA will be hosting a fun after-party with bowling, pool, networking, drinks and appetizers. If your family would also like to join that, they are more than welcome, it is just $25/person for an extra ticket.

Providers of all types are welcome to attend. Come connect Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Social Workers, PAs, NPs, other Physician specialties, Residents, Medical Students, Counselors, and other Mental Health Practitioners.

Please note that the UMA Foundation designates this live activity for a maximum of 5.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.
Register today at https://idahopsychiatric.org/annual-conference-attendee.../

Friday, May 12 · 7am - 7:30pm MDT
Wahooz Family Fun Zone
1385 South Blue Marlin Lane
Meridian, ID 83642
Contact Mike Oster at [email protected] or 208-344-7888 ext 102 with questions. We hope to see you there!

2023 Attendees: Registration now available for the IPA 2023 Annual CME Conference! Click the link below to register for the conference. Providers of all types are welcome to attend. We will be offering both an in-person and virtual option this year. Pricing will be the same for virtual attendance du...

04/25/2023

Thank You To Our 2023 IPA Conference Sponsors!

04/25/2023

IPA Member Meeting

Attention IPA Members only – we will hold our annual IPA membership business meeting in-person in Boise on May 11th, 2023. Please email Mike Oster at [email protected] for more information and to register for the Member Meeting.

https://idahopsychiatric.org/

04/24/2023

💥 UPDATE: This year's conference has been reschedule for October 27th, stay tuned for more details!

Join the conversation!!!
Practitioners and Public Welcome!

2023 IPA Annual Conference https://idahopsychiatric.org/annual-conference-attendee-registration/
May 12, 2023 | Meridian, Id

Climate Change and It’s Myriad Affects on Mental Health
- Ethan J. Sims, MD:

Ethan Sims is an emergency medicine physician living and working in Boise, Idaho. He earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Georgia and his medical degree from Emory University. He trained in emergency medicine at the Cook County Hospital in Chicago, Illinois before a decade soaked in roasted green chile and sunshine in Albuquerque, New Mexico, working at the University of New Mexico Hospital and Presbyterian Health Services. He and his family moved to Boise in 2017 and have found a home in the Gem State. He has achieved the pinnacle of parenting, whereupon his daughters, now 13 and 15, have surpassed him in intellect and athleticism, but fortunately still need a driver. He and his wife still have the affection of their three dogs.

Ethan founded the Idaho Clinicians for Climate and Health in late 2021 and is the new medical director for sustainability at St. Luke's Health System. His goals for the year are to help the community around him see the health benefits of reducing our impact on climate change and to become carbon neutral as a household.

Learn about the connection between climate change and mental health

04/22/2023

💥 UPDATE: This year's conference has been reschedule for October 27th, stay tuned for more details!

This year’s conference will focus on “Advocacy and Beyond – The Intersection of Stigma, Bias, and Gun Control”. Topics will include Anti-Racism / Bias, Advocacy, Assessing Violence, and more!

Included with your registration, IPA will be hosting a fun after-party with bowling, pool, networking, drinks and appetizers!

If your family would also like to join that, they are more than welcome, it is just $25/person for an extra ticket.

Providers of all types are welcome to attend. Come connect Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Social Workers, PAs, NPs, other Physician specialties, Residents, Medical Students, Counselors, and other Mental Health Practitioners.

Please note that this activity is approved for 4-5 AMA PRA Category 1 credits.

Register today at https://idahopsychiatric.org/annual-conference-attendee-registration/

Friday, May 12 · 7am - 7:30pm MDT
Wahooz Family Fun Zone
1385 South Blue Marlin Lane
Meridian, ID 83642

Contact Mike Oster at [email protected] or 208-344-7888 ext 102 with questions. We hope to see you there!

04/20/2023

💥 UPDATE: This year's conference has been reschedule for October 27th, stay tuned for more details!

This year’s conference will focus on “Advocacy and Beyond – The Intersection of Stigma, Bias, and Gun Control”. Topics will include Anti-Racism / Bias, Advocacy, Assessing Violence, and more!

We are hosting three national renowned speakers with a great line-up of topics including:
- Anti-Racism / Bias
- Advocacy 101
- Balancing Threat Assessment and Risk - Management within the Mental Health Framework
- How to Talk to Our Community About Firearm Risk and Mitigation Strategies
- Climate Change and Its Myriad Effects on Mental Health

Register at https://idahopsychiatric.org/

Also included with your registration, IPA will be hosting a fun after-party with bowling, pool, networking, drinks and appetizers. If your family would also like to join that, they are more than welcome, it is just $25/person for an extra ticket.

Providers of all types are welcome to attend. Come connect Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Social Workers, PAs, NPs, other Physician specialties, Residents, Medical Students, Counselors, and other Mental Health Practitioners.

Please note that this activity is approved for 4-5 AMA PRA Category 1 credits.

Register today at https://idahopsychiatric.org/annual-conference-attendee.../

Friday, May 12 · 7am - 7:30pm MDT
Wahooz Family Fun Zone
1385 South Blue Marlin Lane
Meridian, ID 83642
Contact Mike Oster at [email protected] or 208-344-7888 ext 102 with questions. We hope to see you there!

04/19/2023

💥 UPDATE: This year's conference has been reschedule for October 27th, stay tuned for more details!

You’re Invited to Join the Conversation!!
Practitioners and Public Welcome!

2023 IPA Annual Conference
May 12, 2023 | Meridian, ID
Register Today! https://idahopsychiatric.org/annual-conference-attendee-registration/

MEET OUR SPEAKERS

✅ Tony Thrasher, D.O., MBA, DFAPA:
Dr. Tony Thrasher is a board-certified psychiatrist employed as the medical director for the Crisis Services branch of the Milwaukee County Behavioral Health Division.

He received his psychiatric training from Washington University in St. Louis at Barnes Jewish Hospital, and he is the Immediate Past President of the American Association for Emergency Psychiatry (AAEP).He is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association (APA), and he currently serves as the President Elect for the Wisconsin Psychiatric Association (WPA) as well as the President for the Wisconsin Association of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons (WAOPS).

Most recently, he was inducted into the American College of Psychiatrists, was named a Top Doctor for 2022 by Milwaukee Magazine, earned his accreditation as a Certified Physician Executive (CPE), and is fortunate to work with Psychiatric Times on a series of Mental Health Minute webinars.

In 2023, he is also proud to have served as the Editor for the Oxford Press Primer on Emergency Psychiatry as well as being the Editor for the American Psychiatric Association’s Maintenance of Certification FOCUS journal centering on the core curriculum of Emergency Psychiatry!

PRESENTATIONS INCLUDE:
- Balancing Threat Assessment and Risk Management within the Mental Health Framework
- How to Talk to Our Community About Firearm Risk and Mitigation Strategies

✅ Chelsea Gaona-Lincoln:
Activist, Lobbyist & Political Consultant

Chelsea is Principal Consultant, MG Strategies and Executive Director, Add the Words Idaho from Caldwell, Idaho. She thrives in places where she can use her formal education in teaching, matched with her passion for supporting folks learning to navigate historically exclusive systems. With extensive expertise in accommodating learning styles, community centric organizing, event coordination, project management, public speaking and strong communication abilities; Chelsea believes it’s key to meet people where they are and build authentic relationships moving at the speed of trust from an abundance mindset.

PRESENTATIONS INCLUDE:
- Anti-Racism / Bias
- Advocacy 101

✅ Ethan J. Sims, MD:
Dr. Ethan J. Sims is an emergency medicine physician in Boise, Idaho and is affiliated with St. Luke' Regional Medical Center.

He received his medical degree from Emory University School of Medicine and has been in practice between 11-20 years.

“Climate change is a human health issue, not a political problem. We are all affected, we are all part of the solution.”

PRESENTATION:
-Climate Change and It’s Myriad Affects on Mental Health