Mental Health Aspects of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Greetings everyone. We talked previously about plans to have a 2021 APPA meeting focused on mood disorders. As you all well know, a lot has happened since March! As a result, we have decided to shift the focus of the meeting to mental health aspects of COVID-19. We will maintain some elements of what was envisioned earlier, in particular with a focus on stress, including its biology and its relation to the development of depression. We will add sessions on stress in relation to anxiety disorders, and also substance use disorders. The new meeting will begin with a review of what is known about the mental health aspects of disasters and pandemics. It will then move to a focus on what is unique in the mental health components of the COVID-19 pandemic, including, for example, the biology of brain effects, the mental health of survivors of acute respiratory distress syndrome, and the effects of social isolation on domestic violence and PTSD. Another area we will highlight is the impact of the pandemic on the mental health of vulnerable and marginalized communities. This meeting will be a chance to assess what we know about the psychological response to disasters and crisis, to see what we have learned in a year about mental health in the current pandemic, and to exchange ideas about the work and research that need to be done next.
James "Jimmy" Potash, MD, MPH, APPA President
Henry Phipps Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Department Director and Psychiatrist-in-Chief
Johns Hopkins Medicine
Program
Wednesday, March 3, 2021
12:00-5:00 Pre-Conference Training Workshop
Thursday, March 4, 2021
9:00-12:00 Session 1: Disaster Mental Health
9:00 – 9:10 Welcoming Remarks
James Potash, MD, MPH, Johns Hopkins
9:10 – 9:40 Disaster Mental Health: A Brief Overview and Review
Carol North, MD, UTSW
9:40 – 10:10 Psychological First Aid in the Covid Context
George Everly, PhD, Johns Hopkins
10:10 – 10:25 Discussion
10:25 – 10:40 Break
10:40 – 11:10 Preventing Post-Disaster Psychopathology
Craig Katz, MD, Mt. Sinai
11:10 – 11:40 Long-Term Mental Health Outcomes of Disasters
Evelyn Bromet, MD, Stony Brook
11:40 – 12:00 Discussion
12:00 – 12:15 3 oral poster presentations
12:00 – 12:05 Neighborhood-Level Factors and Depression in an Urban Student Sample During COVID-19
Talia Schulder, Kat McNeal, Michelle Hernandez, Sasha Rudenstine
12:05 – 12:10 Racial Differences in Suicide Mortality During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Maryland, USA
Michael Bray, Nicholas Daneshvari, Indu Radhakrishnan, Janel Cubbage, Michael Eagle, Pamela Southall, Paul Nestadt
12:10 – 12:15 Differential Associations Between Types of Social Media Use and University Students' Non-Suicidal Self-Injury and Suicidal Behavior
Mila Kingsbury, Bjørn-Atle Reme, Børge Sivertsen, Jens Skogen, Simon Øverland, Nathan Cantor, Ian Colman
12:15 - 12:20 Racial-Ethnic Differences in Reasons for Misuse of Prescription Medications: Analyses of the National Survey of Drug Use and Health 2015 to 2018
James Cury, Vinita Sharma, Alyssa Falise, Catalina Lopez-Quintero
12:20 – 1:30 Lunch break
1:30 – 5:00 Session 2: COVID and Mental Health
1:30 – 1:40 Chair/Discussant
Sandro Galea, PhD, Boston U Pub Health
1:40 – 2:10 COVID and Psychopathology
Gabriel de Erausquin, MD, PhD, UT SA
2:10 - 2:30 Hamilton Award: The Distressed and the Depressed in the Pandemic
James Potash, MD, MPH, Johns Hopkins
2:30 – 3:00 Ethnic Variation in COVID Mental Health Outcomes
Joshua Breslau, PhD, Rand
3:00 – 3:15 Discussion
3:15 – 3:30 Break
3:30 – 4:00 The Impact of COVID-19 on Perinatal Outcomes
Cynthia Rogers, MD, Washington University School of Medicine
4:00 – 4:30 COVID and the Virtualization of Psychiatric Care
Jay Shore, MD, MPH, University of Colorado
4:30 – 5:00 Session Discussion
5:00 – 6:30 Poster Session 1
Friday, March 5, 2021
8:00 – 9:30 Poster Session 2
9:30 – 12:30 Session 3: Stress
9:30 – 9:40 Chair/Discussant
Huda Akil, PhD, Michigan
9:40 – 9:45 Zubin Award
9:45 – 10:15 Sensitive Period Effects of Early Life Stress on DNA Methylation and Risk for Depression
Erin Dunn, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital
10:15 – 10:45 Stress, the Brain, and COVID-19
Josh Gordon, MD, PhD, NIMH
10:45 – 11:00 Discussion
11:00 – 11:15 Break
11:15 – 11:45 Stress and Suicidal Behavior
Barbara Stanley, PhD, Columbia
11:45 – 12:15 Psychological Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic
Dennis Charney, MD, Mt. Sinai
12:15 – 12:30 Discussion
12:30 – 1:15 Lunch break
1:15 – 2:00 Annual Business Meeting
2:00 – 5:00 Session 4: Anxiety
2:00 – 2:10 Chair/Discussant
Naomi Simon, MD, NYU
2:10 - 2:40 The Mental Health Impact of COVID-Related Deaths
Naomi Simon, MD, NYU
2:40 – 3:10 Who Gets PTSD? Gene-Environmental Interplay in Response to Traumatic Stress
Karestan Koenen, PhD, Harvard
3:10 - 3:30 Discussion
3:30 - 3:45 Break
3:45 - 4:15 Exposure and Response Prevention Treatment During COVID-19
Eric Storch, PhD, USF
4:15 – 4:45 Hoch Award: PTSD in Post-ICU Patients
Joe Bienvenu, MD, PhD, Johns Hopkins
4:45 – 5:05 General Discussion
Saturday, March 6, 2021
8:00 – 9:00 Early Career Roundtable
9:00 – 9:15 Robins-Guze Award
9:15 – 12:00 Session 5: Substance Abuse
9:15 - 9:20 Chair/Discussant
James Potash, MD, MPH, Johns Hopkins
9:20 – 9:50 Collision of the COVID-19 and Addiction Epidemics
Nora Volkow, MD, NIDA
9:50 – 10:20 Impact of Substance Use Disorders on Risk for COVID and Poor Prognosis in Veterans Administration Patients
Deborah Hasin, PhD, Columbia
10:20 – 10:35 Session Discussion
10:35 – 10:45 Break
10:45 – 11:15 Impact of COVID on Opioid Crisis
Jeanmarie Perrone, MD, Penn
11:15 – 11:45 Alcohol and Cannabis Use Among Black Americans During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Rene Johnson, PhD, Johns Hopkins
11:45 – 12:00 Session Discussion and Conference Wrap-up
James Potash, MD, MPH, Johns Hopkins
Click HERE for a downloadable version of the program.
2020-2021 APPA Council
President
James Potash, MD (Johns Hopkins University)
President-Elect
Kathleen Merikangas, PhD (National Institute of Mental Health)
Vice President
Dost Öngür, MD, PhD (McLean Hospital)
Secretary
William S. Stone, PhD (Harvard Medical School)
Treasurer
Joshua Breslau, ScD (RAND Corporation)
Membership Chair
Helen Wilson, PhD (Stanford University)
Councilors
Raymond DePaulo, MD (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine)
John M. de Figueiredo, MD, ScD (Yale School of Medicine) (Treasurer-Elect)
Deborah S. Hasin, PhD (Columbia University) (Past President)
Susan L. Santangelo, ScD (Maine Medical Center)
Nehal P. Vadhan, PhD (Northwell Health)
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