IPS and IPS Members in the News
October 16, 2009
Postpartum Depression Bill Still Awaiting Final Push
Mark Moran
The bill to focus attention and funding on postpartum depression was introduced eight years ago and along the way has encountered opposition from scientologists and others.
After giving birth to her baby girl Summer, and while her family was admiring the new arrival, Melanie Blocker Stokes grew very quiet. Click here for more.
IPS Member, Nada Stotland, M.D. mentioned in this article.
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September 18, 2009
Plant Family Tree to See History of Mental Illness
Joan Arehart-Treichel
An online tool can help people trace mental illness in their family.
Ancestor research is a popular hobby among Americans these days. But few think about building a family tree as far as mental illnesses are concerned. Yet having such a family tree could help them better understand which mental illnesses, if any, tend to run in their families. Click here for more.
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August 21, 2009
Psychiatrist Focuses Attention on Often Overlooked Group
Eve Bender
The college years may contribute to the perfect storm of psychiatric instability for some students
living away from home, faltering under academic pressure, and entering a stage of life when
symptoms of mental illness first manifest themselves.
When psychiatrist Marisa Serrato, M.D., was a high school student in suburban Chicago, she said
she found the help provided by her high school guidance counselor "invaluable." As a psychology
major at Amherst College, she became further interested in the helping professions, but one
experience in her sophomore year solidified that interest—the suicide of a classmate. Click here for more.
IPS Member, Marisa Serrato, M.D., featured in this article.
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May 15, 2009
Senator Wants Mentally Ill Youth to Get Care, Not Prison Term
Rich Daly
That prisons are increasingly housing mentally ill individuals spurs a federal legislative effort to address mental illness among juvenile offenders.
Recently proposed legislation aims to extend and expand a federal program that diverts children with mental illness from the juvenile justice system, which has seen a massive influx of such young offenders in recent years. Click here for more.
IPS Member, Louis Kraus, M.D., mentioned in this article.
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July 3, 2009
Psychiatrists Help Rwandans Recover From Trauma of Brutal War
Aaron Levin
Two U.S. psychiatrists work in a clinic in Rwanda helping survivors—including rape victims and orphaned children—of that nation's 1994 genocide.
The genocide in Rwanda occurred 15 years ago, but people in the African country are still coming to grips with its psychological and social aftermath in a process that is likely to continue for years, said speakers at APA's 2009 annual meeting in San Francisco in May. Click here for more.
IPS President, Lisa Rone, M.D., and IPS Member, Kristen Welch, M.D., are featured in this article.
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March 20, 2009
Ethics Lesson
David H. Baron, M.D. Hinsdale, Ill.
Thanks to Dr. Stotland for her January 16 column, which was both about, and not about, the man who is no longer governor of Illinois. Her column was a "lemons-to-lemonade" accomplishment on her part. She managed to turn a major embarrassment for our state into an opportunity to educate the public, and our membership, about a not-too-well-known section of our ethics code.
Click here for more.
IPS member, Nada Stotland, M.D. mentioned in this article
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March 11, 2009
Telepsychiatry Brings Low-Cost Care to Underserved Communities
Elizabeth Duffrin, LISC Chicago
Children who need psychiatric care often face roadblocks to getting it, especially in low-income communities where the national shortage of child psychiatrists is most acute. Travel time discourages some families from seeking care. Long waitlists deter others, as does the stigma of mental illness itself.
Click here for more.
IPS Executive Director, Meryl Camin Sosa, J.D. mentioned in this article.
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December 5, 2008
District Branch Executives Learn How to Maximize Effectiveness
Rich Daly
APA's recently revised "Model District Branch" document provides standards that help district branches and state associations best respond to the needs of members and to legislative and other issues.
District branch and state association executives immersed themselves in the organizational tools offered through APA's "Model District Branch" program at the annual executive staff leadership conference held in Washington, D.C., in November.
Click here for more.
IPS Executive Director, Meryl Camin Sosa, J.D. in photo.
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November 21, 2008
Eating Disorders Added in State Parity Expansions
Rich Daly
The efforts in Illinois and Massachusetts led to the few changes to state parity laws that legislators enacted this year as many awaited the outcome of the push for federal parity legislation.
In a year when most states waited to see what version of federal mental health insurance parity legislation Congress would pass, a couple did decide to proceed with expanding their own parity laws.
Click here for more.
IPS Executive Director, Meryl Camin Sosa, J.D. mentioned in this article.
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July 4, 2008
Few States Act on Parity Improvements This Year
Rich Daly
State action on mental health bills is unlikely for the rest of the year as most states have ended their legislative sessions, although New Jersey is still considering a parity law change.
Few states have taken action to upgrade their health insurance parity laws this year as many wait for movement on a federal measure stalled in a congressional conference committee. Click here for more.
Past IPS President, Sheldon Miller, M.D. and IPS Executive Director, Meryl Camin Sosa, J.D. mentioned in this article.
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May 16, 2008
Psychiatrist's Films Show Teens 'There Is No Such Thing as Crazy'
Eve Bender
Fred Miller, M.D., Ph.D., creatively engages teens and young adults to talk about mental illness and mental health through face-to-face discussions and through his Web site and companion films.
"There is no such thing as crazy."
Psychiatrist and filmmaker Fred Miller, M.D., Ph.D., has backed this provocative catch phrase by creating an entire project around it to help young people develop healthier attitudes toward emotional problems and the treatment of mental illness.
Click here for more.
IPS Member, Fred Miller, M.D., featured in this article.
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March 21, 2008
Lessons From Virginia Tech Enhance Response to Illinois Shootings
Aaron Levin
The Illinois Division of Mental Health takes the lead in the mental health response to shootings on the Northern Illinois University campus.
The setting and the news are all too familiar—a college classroom, a satchel full of guns, a young man with an uncertain history of mental illness. Click here for more.
IPS President, Lisa Rone, M.D., and IPS members, Kenneth Busch, M.D. and Tanya Anderson, M.D. are mentioned in this article.
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January 4, 2008
Women Psychiatrists Get Great Networking Opportunity
Stephanie Whyche
The Illinois Psychiatric Society's annual women's brunch is a meet-and-greet affair where women psychiatrists talk candidly about the unique challenges they face balancing career and family.
Psychiatrists, psychiatry residents, and medical students—most of whom were women—gathered at the elegant Four Seasons Hotel Chicago for their annual greet-meet-and-learn gathering last November. Click here for more.
IPS members, Joan Anzia, M.D., Surinder Nand, M.D., Nada Stotland, M.D., mentioned in this article. IPS members, Kenneth Busch, M.D., Sangeeta Patel, Malini Patel, M.D., Anita Raghavan are in photos.
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December 21, 2007
Illinois DB Speaks Out on Benefits of Postpartum Depression Bill
A journey that began more than six and half years ago is closer to the finish line for Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) and those who support his bill, the Melanie Blocker Stokes Postpartum Depression Research and Care Act (HR 20). The House of Representatives passed it by a vote of 382 to 3 in October (Psychiatric News, November 16). Click here for more.
IPS member, Nafisa Ghadiali, M.D. featured in this article.
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December 21, 2007
AMA Debates Coverage in SCHIP Legislation
Mark Moran
AMA delegates defeat a resolution urging Congress to limit SCHIP eligibility to 200 percent of the poverty level.
Legislation widely regarded as successful in extending health insurance to children has become captive in what appears to be an ideological tussle over "government controlled" health care. Click here for more.
IPS Member, Louis Kraus, M.D., mentioned in this article
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