Over the first-ever virtual NAMICon two-day event, more than 12,500 people attended from 48 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and 37 countries! This incredible support illustrates the importance of NAMI’s mission to provide advocacy, education, support and public awareness so that all individuals and families affected by mental illness can build better lives.
Couldn’t attend or just want to look at highlights and resources from some of the amazing sessions? Select 2020 session presentations and workshops are available by clicking on the links in the chart below or going to 2020 Virtual NAMICon Sessions.
Joshua Gordon, M.D., Ph.D., Director of the National Institute of Mental Health, will provide an overview of the challenges and opportunities in mental health research. Dr. Gordon will present emerging approaches and technologies, and possible future directions, for this multidisciplinary field. In this era of unprecedented opportunity, he will highlight the importance of cross-disciplinary, integrative approaches to address the vast complexities associated with mental illness as we move closer to our goal of finding effective treatments and therapies.
Moderator: Ken Duckworth, M.D., Chief Medical Officer, NAMI, Arlington, Va.
Speaker: Joshua Gordon, M.D. Ph.D., Director, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Md.
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Recent national events are painful reminders that African Americans continue to experience systemic racism in our society. This panel will address the psychological and emotional effects of racism and how it can impact black people’s mental health. Panelists will share some of their personal and professional experiences dealing with racial trauma, plus share steps on how other communities can become allies for people of color.
Moderator: William Simmons, M.D., Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Speakers:
Christine Crawford, M.D., M.P.H., Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Mass.
Ericka Goodwin, M.D., CEO & Founder, Goodwin Medical Associates, LLC, Atlanta, Ga.
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View session descriptions in each of the five tracks by clicking on the session names in the chart below.
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