11th Annual MGH Leadership Council for Psychiatry Visiting Day
Afternoon Seminar: Aging As We Come Out of COVID
Moderator:
Sabine Wilhelm, PhD
Presenters:
Robert Waldinger, MD
Positive Signs: Mental Health in Older Adults
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Olivia I. Okereke, MD, MS
Risk and Resilience: How Older Adults Coped During the Pandemic
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Anthony P. Weiner, MD
Caring for America’s Aging: The Need to Develop New Models of Care
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Sabine Wilhelm, PhD
Chief of Psychology
Dr. Sabine Wilhelm is director of the Center for OCD and Related Disorders and the Center for Digital Mental Health. Her early work focused on the development and testing of new treatments for adults, adolescents and children suffering from obsessive compulsive disorder, tic disorders and body dysmorphic disorder. Her recent research focuses on the use of cutting-edge technology to improve and personalize mental health care for a range of mental health concerns.
A Harvard Medical School Professor, Dr. Wilhelm has over 300 publications, including seven books, and has given more than 255 lectures on these subjects. She is the recipient of the Peter K. Ranney Innovation Award from the World Medical Innovation Forum for her presentation “Bridging the Mental Health Treatment Gap” and the Claflin Distinguished Scholar in Medicine Award. She is currently working on smartphone-based treatments for OCD, body dysmorphic disorder and depression. Her ultimate goal is to use technology-based interventions to enhance access to high quality mental health interventions globally.
Robert Waldinger, MD
Director of the Center for Psychodynamic Therapy
Dr. Robert Waldinger is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and Zen priest. He is director of the Center for Psychodynamic Therapy and the Harvard Study of Adult Development, one of the longest-running studies of adult life. His 2015 TED talk about the study is one of the most viewed TED talks of all time.
Dr. Waldinger is the author of numerous scientific papers as well as two books. He is the founder and co-director of the MGH/McLean Program in Psychodynamics, a program that offers psychiatry residents in-depth teaching in the theory and practice of psychodynamic psychiatry. He has won awards for teaching and research from the American Psychiatric Association, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts Psychiatric Society, and several Harvard teaching hospitals. He received his undergraduate degree from Harvard College and his MD from Harvard Medical School.
Olivia I. Okereke, MD, MS
Director of Geriatric Psychiatry
Dr. Olivia I Okereke is director of geriatric psychiatry at Mass General, associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, associate professor in epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Terry and Jean de Gunzburg MGH Research Scholar 2021-2026. She is the inaugural director of the MGH Psychiatry Center for Racial Equity and Justice.
Dr. Okereke is a geriatric psychiatrist and physician scientist with advanced training in psychiatric epidemiology and analytic methods. Her clinical research interests are conditions that profoundly affect patients and their families, including depression, anxiety and Alzheimer’s disease. A central theme of her work is the use of diverse research methods and data resources to address novel scientific questions and to drive innovation. She led a first-of-its-kind, large-scale, randomized clinical trial testing the effects of nutrient supplements for prevention of depression in nearly 20,000 adults. She is on the Board of Directors of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry (AAGP) and chair of the Research Committee of AAGP and she is a past member (reached term limits) of the Board of Directors of the MA/NH Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association.
Anthony P. Weiner, MD
Director of Outpatient Geriatric Psychiatry
Dr. Anthony P. Weiner’s clinical practice involves caring for patients whose conditions intersect psychiatry, neurology and internal medicine and who are often impacted by the presence of complicated polypharmacy and a social network that changes as the patient ages. He is the inaugural incumbent of the Millicent and Eugene Bell Endowed Directorship in Older Adult Outpatient Psychiatry.
Dr. Weiner created the MGH Geriatric Psychiatry Clinical and Research Program in 2017.The mission of the program is to optimize the mental health and well-being of individuals aged 65 and older affected by cognitive, mood or memory disorders through comprehensive, cross-disciplinary care and to provide education and support to their families. In January 2022, he launched Care for America’s Aging, a project to create a new model of homecare through enhanced training of home health aides in order to improve the quality of life of homebound older adults with cognitive impairments. Dr. Weiner received his MD from Boston University and completed his residency at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center.