Complete list of presentations

INVITED PRESENTATIONS - INTERNATIONAL  

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2021 “Psychedelic Assisted Psychotherapy Practices and Human Caring Science: Towards a Care-Informed Model of Treatment” – Accepted talk, Oxford University, OXFORD EMPATHY PROGRAMME: Empathy in Healthcare: 3rd Biennial Colloquium, November 2021, Oxford, UK

- Accepted Presenter

2022 “Psychiatry and wellness – what is the connection?” – Invited Clinical Expert Lecture, Institute of Mental Health, Singapore Ministry of Health –November 2022 - Invited Presenter

2022 “Depression and Anxiety: the past and future of medication treatments” - Invited Clinical Expert Lecture, Institute of Mental Health, Singapore Ministry of Health –November 2022 -

Invited Presenter

2022 “Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder: the past and future of medication treatments” - Invited Clinical Expert Lecture, Institute of Mental Health, Singapore Ministry of Health –November 2022 -  Invited Presenter

2022 “Why won’t patients take their meds? Understanding and preventing medication non-adherence” - - Invited Clinical Expert Lecture, Institute of Mental Health, Singapore Ministry of Health –November 2022 - Invited Presenter

2022 “Future Frontiers in Psychiatry: The treatments we’ll likely see next” - Invited Clinical Expert Lecture, Institute of Mental Health, Singapore Ministry of Health –November 2022 -

Invited Presenter

2022 “The self-diagnosing patient: How to Work with Them”- Invited Clinical Expert Lecture, Institute of Mental Health, Singapore Ministry of Health –November 2022 -Invited Presenter

2022 “Moving beyond the hospital to the community”- Invited Clinical Expert Lecture, Institute of Mental Health, Singapore Ministry of Health –November 2022 -Invited Presenter

2022 "Prescribing practices in mental health nursing today and future - ”- Invited Clinical Expert Lecture, Institute of Mental Health, Singapore Ministry of Health –November 2022 -

Invited Presenter

2022 “Harm Reduction: What is it and how can we use it with our patients?” - Invited Clinical Expert Lecture, Institute of Mental Health, Singapore Ministry of Health –November 2022

-Invited Presenter

2023 "What Can Nursing Teach Us About How to Be a Psychedelic Therapist" - Compass Pathways, London, UK, CA - February 2023 - Invited Presenter

2023 "What Can Nursing Teach Us About How to Be a Psychedelic Therapist" - University of Calgary, School of Nursing, Alberta, CA - February 2023- Invited Presenter

2024 "What Happens in Psychedelic Therapy? When Nursing Caring Science meets Psychedelic Treatments" - Invited presentation for Heal Ukraine Trauma NGO- Invited Presenter

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INVITED PRESENTATIONS - NATIONAL  

2009 “Stalking Remission: Using combinations of medications for treatment resistant depression” – faculty presentation, Contemporary Forums Psychiatric Nursing Conferences, Nashville, TN, Philadelphia, PA, La Jolla, CA - Presenter

2009 “Why won’t they take their meds – understanding and preventing medication non-adherence” – faculty presentation, Contemporary Forums Psychiatric Nursing Conference, La Jolla, CA - Presenter

2009 “Stop the swings: using off label medications to treat bipolar disorder” – faculty presentation, Contemporary Forums Psychiatric Nursing Conferences, Nashville, TN, Philadelphia, PA, ; La Jolla, CA -Presenter

2009 “Assessment and treatment of sexual side effects of psychiatric medications” – faculty presentation, Contemporary Forums Psychiatric Nursing Conference, La Jolla, CA -Presenter

2009 “Bipolar Spectrum Disorders: Concept and Controversy” – plenary presentation, Contemporary Forums Psychiatric Nursing Conference, La Jolla, CA - Presenter

2010 “To Treat or Not to Treat: A Rational Approach to Management of Anxiety” – faculty presentation, Las Vegas, NV Presenter

2010 “Untying the Gordian Knot: Strategies for Optimizing and Simplifying Medication Regimes” – faculty presentation Las Vegas, NV - Co-Presenter with Maryann Nihart, PMHNP

2010 “Walking the Line: Working with Cyclical Mood Disorders, Impulsive Personality Structure, and History of Trauma” – faculty presentation, Las Vegas, NV - Co-Presenter with Maryann Nihart, PMHNP

2010 “Psychopharmacology Roundtable: Prescribing Medications to Maximize Outcomes” – faculty presentation Las Vegas, NV Presenter

2010 “It’s Cycling, Not Polarity: Understanding and Diagnosing the Bipolar Spectrum” – American Psychiatric Nurses Association National Conference, Louisville, KY - Presenter

2011 "Lies, damn lies, and statistics: making sense of clinical research to improve patient care" - faculty presentation, Contemporary Forums Psychiatric Nursing Conference, San Francisco, CA - Presenter

2011 "Chronic pain and Mental Health: What are the boundaries for practice?" - faculty presentation, Contemporary Forums Psychiatric Nursing Conference, San Francisco, CA -

Presenter

2011 “Understanding the placebo effect: helping the mind to heal itself” – faculty plenary presentation, Contemporary Forums Psychiatric Nursing Conference, San Francisco, CA

Presenter

2011 “Why won’t they take their meds? Utilizing motivational interviewing to prevent medication nonadherence” – Faculty Presentation, US Psychiatry Congress, Las Vegas, NV

Presenter

2011 “The Bipolar Spectrum: improving diagnosis and treatment” –Faculty Presentation, US Psychiatry Congress, Las Vegas, NV - Presenter

2012 “Revisiting Old Friends: Helping your patients with first generation antipsychotics, tricyclic antidepressants, and lithium” – Faculty Presentation, Contemporary Forums Psychiatric Nursing Conferences, Philadelphia, PA and Las Vegas, NV - Presenter

2012 “Spice, Bath Salts, and the Kitchen Sink: New drugs of abuse that you’ve (probably) never heard of” - ” – Faculty Presentation, Contemporary Forums Psychiatric Nursing Conferences, Philadelphia, PA and Las Vegas, NV - Presenter

2012 “Understanding the placebo effect: helping the mind to heal itself” – faculty presentation, US Psychiatry Congress, San Diego, CA - Presenter

2012 “Spice, Bath Salts, and Salvia: Emerging drugs of abuse” – Faculty Presentation, US Psychiatry Congress, San Diego, CA - Presenter

2013 “Understanding the placebo effect: helping the mind to heal itself” – invited presentation, Oregon Psychiatric Association annual meeting - Presenter

2013 “Future Frontiers in Mood disorders: Depression, Inflammation, and Ketamine” – Faculty Presentation, Contemporary Forums Psychiatric Nursing Conferences, New Orleans, LA and Philadelphia, PA - Presenter

2013 “Future Frontiers in Mood disorders: Bipolar Update” – Faculty Presentation, Contemporary Forums Psychiatric Nursing Conferences, New Orleans, LA and Philadelphia, PA - Presenter

2013 “The Perils and Promise of Psychoactive Drugs: a focus on harm reduction psychiatry” - Faculty Presentation, US Psychiatry Congress, San Diego, CA Presenter

2013 “Medicine or Menace? Working with cannabis use in a time of legalization.” – Invited Faculty Presentation, US Psychiatry Congress, Orlando, FL - Presenter

2014 ”(Brave New World revisited) Can psychedelics be catalysts for therapy?” – Invited Faculty Presentation, US Psychiatry Congress, San Diego, CA Presenter

2016 “The Ghost in the Machine? Understanding change phenomena in psychedelic assisted therapy” – Invited Faculty Presentation in collaboration with Charles Raison, MD, US Psychiatry Congress, San Antonio, TX - Presenter

2016 “Cannabis: What do Mental Health Professionals Need to Know?” - Invited Faculty Presentation, US Psychiatry Congress, San Antonio, TX - Presenter

2016 ”It Takes a Village: Collaborative Mental Health Care for the 21st Century Clinican” – Invited Faculty Presentation in collaboration with Marc Agronin, MD; Saundra Jain, PsyD; W Clay Jackson, MD, Catherine Judd, PA-C, US Psychiatry Congress, San Antonio, TX

- Presenter

2016 “Cannabis and Bipolar Disorder: What do we know, what do we still need to know?” – Invited presentation, International Bipolar Foundation webinar - Presenter

2017 “Elevated, Not High: The Promise of Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy” – Invited Faculty Presentation in collaboration with Charles Raison, MD, Elevate –San Francisco, CA

Presenter

2017 “Understanding the Psychiatric Effects of Cannabis” – Grand Rounds, Santa Cruz Mental Health Department, Santa Cruz, CA - Presenter

2017 ”A Walk on the Wild Side or the Right Side? The Role of Psychedelics, Cannabinoids, and Opioids in Psychiatric Treatment,” - invited Faculty Presentation in collaboration with Charles Raison, MD and Vladimir Maletic, MD – Psych Congress, New Orleans, LA - Co-Presenter

2018 “Cannabis and bipolar disorder: What’s helpful? What’s harmful? What’s unknown?” - – Invited presentation, International Bipolar Foundation webinar - Presenter

2018 “Working with psychiatric clients who use cannabis: a focus on harm reduction” - ” – Grand Rounds, Santa Cruz Mental Health Department, Santa Cruz, CA -Presenter

2018 “Working with patients clients who use cannabis: a focus on harm reduction” - ” – NP Convocation, Kaiser Redwood City, September 2018 - Presenter

2018 “Navigating Unmetabolized Grief in Psychedelic Psychotherapy” – Invited Presentation, California Institute for Integral Studies Certificate in Psychedelic Therapies and Research program, San Francisco, CA, Sept 2018 - Presenter

2018 “Rethinking our relationship to sadness: therapeutic importance of differentiating grief from depression”, - Invited Faculty Presentation, Psych Congress, Orlando, FL, October 2018

Presenter

2018 “Tantalizingly close: an update on emerging psychedelic research and a report from a psychedelic psychotherapist trainee” - Invited Faculty Presentation, Psych Congress, Orlando, FL, October 2018 - Presenter

2018 “Walk the Walk: Case-Based Learnings of the Neurobiological Basis and Advanced Psychopharmacology and Wellness Practices” - Invited Faculty Presentation with Rakesh Jain, MD, MPH, Saundra Jain, MA, PSyD, LPC , Vladimir Maletic, MD, MS, Charles Raison, MD , Psych Congress, Orlando, FL, October 2018 - Co-Presenter

2018 “Working with psychiatric clients who use cannabis: a focus on harm reduction” -  Invited Keynote address, New Jersey Society of Psychiatric Advanced Practice Nurses, Monmouth University, November 2018 - Presenter

2019 “Working with clients who use cannabis: a practical, harm reduction focused approach”– Invited lecture with Maria Mangini, PhD, FNP, Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT -March 2019

Co-Presenter

2019 “Confused about Cannabidiol? A Scientific and Rational Examination of its Risks and Benefits in Psychiatry” -– Psych Congress, San Diego, CA, October 2019 -Presenter

2019 “Psychedelic Assisted Therapies as Novel Treatments for Depression, Anxiety and PTSD” – 18th Annual Psychopharmacology Update, Cincinnati, OH, October 2019, Presenter

2020 “Psychedelic Assisted Therapies as Novel Treatments for Depression, Anxiety and PTSD” – APNA Clinical Psychopharmacology Institute, San Diego, CA (Delivered online d/t COVID19) March 2020 - Presenter

2020 “The Self-Diagnosing Patient: How do you work with them?” – Invited talk, Elevate, Las Vegas, NV, (to be delivered online), July 2020 - Presenter

2020 “When the patient has decided that cannabis is their medicine.” - Accepted talk, Psych Congress, Nashville, TN, Sept 2020 - Presenter

2020 "Medicine Meets Imagination: Envisioning a Future of Psychedelic Psychiatry" - Interview with Charles Raison, MD, Psych Congress, Nashville, Sept 2020 - Panelist

2020 "Nursing: Caring Science meets Psychedelic Assisted Psychotherapy for Depression and PTSD"– Accepted workshop with Bruce Pouter, MSN, RN, American Association of Psychiatric Nurses National Conference, September 2020 - Presenter

2020 “From Shock to Awe: Film Screening and Panel Discussion on Psychedelic Assisted Therapies in the VA”, with Rachel Yehuda, PhD; Josh Woolley, MD, PhD, and Emily Horowitz, PhD, October 2020 - Panelist

2021 “Understanding Cannabis in Psychiatric Nursing Practice: A harm reduction approach” – Invited talk American Association of Nurse Practitioners, New Orleans, LA, Scheduled June 2021 (rescheduled from 2020 d/t COVID19) - Presenter

2021 “What can nursing teach us about how to be a psychedelic therapist?” - Invited Talk, Bessel van der Kolk's Boston International Trauma Conference, May 2021 - Presenter

2021 “Navigating Uncertainty: Successfully Transitioning to Practice, Preventing Burnout, and Confronting Imposter Syndrome” – with Rosalind De Lisser, MS, PMHNP, Elevate, Las Vegas, NV, June 2021 - Co-Presenter

2021 “Psychedelics: state of the science” – Invited Presentation with David Nichols, PhD, Bunnick Lab, University of Texas, San Antonio, August 2021 - Co-Presenter

2021 "How Did We Get Here A Brief History of Psychedelics" - With Charles Raison, MD, Sana Symposium Virtual Conference, Sept 2021 - Co-Presenter

2021 "Psychedelics—Bridging the Gap Between Psychiatry and Psychotherapy" - With Saundra Jain, PsyD, Sana Symposium Virtual Conference, Sept 2021 - Co-Presenter

2021 "Psychedelics - Next Steps: What Does All This Mean To YOU?", - With Charles Raison, MD, Sana Symposium Virtual Conference, Sept 2021 - Co-Presenter

2021 "When the Patient Has Decided Cannabis is Their Medicine" - American Association of Nurse Practitioners National Conference, Hollywood, Florida, Sept 2021 - Presenter

2021 "Caring Science Meets Psychedelic-assisted Psychotherapy" - - American Association of Nurse Practitioners National Conference, Hollywood, Florida, Sept 2021 - Presenter

2021 “Reunited and it Feels So Good: Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Magnify Each Other with Psychedelics”, Psych Congress, Invited Session, San Antonio, Tx, October 2021 - Presenter

2021 "When a pandemic hands you lemons, make lemonade: How we used evidence-based teaching strategies to improve our psychiatric assessment and management course as we transitioned to remote learning." - With Beth Phoenix, RN, PhD - American Psychiatric Nursing Association National Conference, Louisville, KY, Oct 2021 - Co-Presenter

2021 "What Can Nursing Teach Us About How to Be a Psychedelic Therapist? A care-informed model for psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy" - American Psychiatric Nursing Association National Conference, Louisville, KY, Oct 2021 - Presenter

2022 "What Happens in Psychedelic Therapy? - When Nursing Caring Science meets Psychedelic Treatments" Invited presentation, University of Pennsylvania, School of Nursing, "A Journey Through the Psychedelic Revival" Series, Feb 2022 - Presenter

2022 "Psychedelics and Palliative Care" - Invited Panel with Shoshana Ungerleider, MD, Julie Holland, MD and Mellody Hayes, MD, South By Southwest Festival (SXSW), Austin, TX, March 2021 - Co-Panelist

2022 "Introducing Psychedelics: A New Future for Mental Healthcare" - Elevate, Las Vegas June

2022 "Visionary Approaches: Psychedelics as Therapy" - Invited Panel with Shoshana Ungerleider, MD, Rachel Yehuda, MD, and Jeeshan Choudry - Aspen Institute Health Ideas Festival, Aspen, CO, June 2022 - Co-Panelist

2022 "Psychedelics as Medicine: A History of Where We’ve Been and a Map of Where We’re Going," Psych Congress, New Orleans, LA, Sept 2022 - Presenter

2022 "Psychedelic-assisted Psychotherapy: How is it Different from What We Already Do?", Psych Congress, New Orleans, LA Sept 2022 - Presenter

2022 - "We’re All Really Tired: Looking at Gratitude as an Antidote to Pandemic Burnout" (with Saundra Jain, PsyD) Psych Congress, New Orleans, LA Sept 2022 -Co-Presenter

2023 "Principles of Psychopharmacology" - (with Rakesh Jain, MD and Craig Chepke, MD) NP Institute, Boston, MA, April 2023 - Co-Presenter

2023 "How to Choose the Right Antidepressant for Your Patient" (with Michael Thase, MD) NP Institute, Boston, MA, April 2023 - Co-Presenter

2023 "The Future of Depression Care: Exploring Rapid Acting Agents and Psychedelics" - (with Rakesh Jain, MD) NP Institute, Boston, MA, April 2023 -Co-Presenter

2023 "Mastering the Art of Deprescribing" (with Saundra Jain, PsyD) NP Institute, Boston, MA, April 2023 - Co-Presenter

2023 "Bringing it All Together: Next Steps When You Return to Practice" (with Julie Carbray, PhD, APRN) NP Institute, Boston, MA, April 2023 - Co-Presenter

2023 "Is it 4:20 Yet? Successful Management of the Cannabis-Using Patient" (with Jonathan Williams, DNP, PMHNP). Elevate, Las Vegas, NV, June 2023 - Co-Presenter

2023 "Psychedelic Science and Medicine" - Panel discussion (with David Presti, PhD; Kwasi Aduesi, DNP, PMHNP; Nicole Howell, ESQ), TEDxMarin, June 2023 - Presenter, panelist

2023 "Who should be a psychedelic therapist?" – Panel discussion (with Mary Cosimano, LCSW and Belinda Eriacho, MPH, MT ), Psychedelic Science Conference, June 2023

Presenter, panelist

2023 “Creating Professional Guidelines, Standards, and Certifications for Psychedelic Assisted Therapy Practitioners” (Panel with Anthony Back, MD, Will van der Veer, MD, Natalie Gukasyan, MD, Shannon Carlin, LMFT, and Jordan Sloshower, MD), Psychedelic Science Conference, Denver, CO, June 2023 -Presenter, panelist

2023 “How to keep psychedelics from going off the rails” – presentation with Charles Raison, MD, Psych Congress, Nashville, TN, September 2023 - co-presenter

2023 "Expert Panel- Cavalry Isn't Coming- Clinician Burnout in a Post-Covid World" (panelist with Carl Spitzer, MD; Joshua Paredes, RN; Saundra Jain, PsyD, LPC) - Psych Congress, Nashville, TN, September 2023 - Speaker, Panelist

2023 "Updates in Psychedelics: Where We Are Now and Where We Are Headed" - invited presentation Psych Congress, Nashville, TN, September 2023 - Presenter

2023 "Exploring the Science of Cannabis: Navigating Benefits, Risks, and Interactions" (With Jonathan Williams, DNP) - invited presentation Psych Congress, Nashville, TN, September 2023 Presenter

2023 "Five Things I've Learned About Psychedelic Therapy", Invited talk, September 2023

Presenter

2023 “How to keep psychedelics from going off the rails” – presentation with Charles Raison, MD, Sana Symposium, October 2023 - Co-Presenter

2023 "Updates in Psychedelics: Where We Are Now and Where We Are Headed" - presentation with Charles Raison, MD, Sana Symposium, October 2023 - Co-Presenter

2023 "Psychedelics and Nursing: Updates from the Oregon Frontier" - presentation with Melanie King Velez, DNP, Sigma Theta Tau, October 2023 - Co-Presenter

2024 "Psychedelic Therapy for Death Acceptance: a Scoping Review" - invited Poster, with Hannah Whitmore, RN, PhD(c), Elena Flower, RN, PhD, Heather Leutwyler, RN, PhD, FNP, Brian Anderson, MD, MSc - International Society for Research on Psychedelics, New Orleans, LA, Feb 2024 Co-Poster Presentation

2024 "Psychedelics update" - Psych Congress Regionals, (recorded Philadelphia, PA), used for 8 different regional meetings through 2024 - Presenter

2024 "We Don’t Just “Do the Meds” : Integrating meaningful psychotherapy into a psychopharmacology practice - co-presented with Saundra Jain, PsyD. NP Institute, San Diego, CA, March 2024 - Co-Presenter

2024 "Exploring Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies (PAT): Evidence, Applications, and Integration into Clinical Practice" NP Institute, San Diego, CA, March 2024 - Presenter

2024 "Fundamental Insights into Neurobiology: Neurotransmitters, Neural Networks, and Their Role in Mental Health" NP Institute, San Diego, CA, March 2024 - Presenter

2024 "Major Depressive Disorder: Overcoming Care Challenges and Improving Shared Decision-Making" Recorded conversation with Michael Thase, MD, April 2024 (recorded in Philadelphia, PA) https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/999737 - Co-presenter

2024 “What came first: psychosis or cannabis use? : Helping patients with co-occurring psychosis and cannabis use disorder" - Co-presentation with Jonathan Williams, DNP, Elevate, Las Vegas, NV, Co-Presenter

2024 "Unveiling the Potential of Psychedelic Medicine: From Fundamentals to Future Horizons" - Co-presentation with Kwasi Aduesi, DNP, Elevate, Las Vegas, NV - Co-Presenter

2024 "Navigating deprescribing" - Psych Congress, Boston MA, October 2024

Presenter

2024 "Psychedelics Preconference" - Co chair, with Charles Raison, MD - Psych Congress, Boston MA, October 2024 Co-Chair,presenter, panelist

2024 "What Happens in the room during Psychedelic Therapy?: When Nursing Caring Science meets Psychedelic Treatments" University of Wisconsin, Madison, School of Pharmacy, November 2024 - Invited presenter

2025 "Fundamental Insights into Neurobiology: Neurotransmitters, Neural Networks, and Their Role in Mental Health" NP Institute, Orlando, Fl, March 2025 - Presenter

2025  "We Don’t Just “Do the Meds” : Integrating meaningful psychotherapy into a psychopharmacology practice" - co-presented with Saundra Jain, PsyD. and Vanessa Walker, NP Institute, Orlando, Fl, March 2025 - Presenter

2025 "Psychedelics Update 2025" - Psych Congress Regionals, Scheduled Recording Feb 2025, for use in multiple Psych Congress Regional Meetings through 2025, Presenter

2025 "AI, robot? Psychedelic Assisted Therapy and Human Caring Science" Emory Center for Spirituality, Atlanta, GA, Scheduled April 2025 - Presenter

2025

"Engaging the Unspoken: Effective Ways to Unlock Deeper Therapeutic Alliances in Psychiatric Care," (with Jess Romeo, MSW, PMHNP), Elevate, Las Vegas, CA, Scheduled May 2025 - Co-Presenter, Speaker Mentor

2025 "Psychedelics in Psychiatry: Where Are We Now and What’s Next?" (with Charles Raison, MD), Psych Congress, San Diego, CA, Scheduled Sept 2025 - Co-Presenter

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INVITED PRESENTATIONS - REGIONAL AND OTHER INVITED PRESENTATIONS  

2008 “Bipolar Spectrum Disorders: diagnosis and pharmacology” - – UC San Francisco School of Nursing - Presenter

2008 “Psychopharmacology for Advance Practice Nurses” – UC San Francisco School of Nursing - Presenter

2008 “Treatment of Depression in Primary Care” – Kaiser Permanente Redwood City Nursing Conference - Presenter

2008 “Schizophrenia and related conditions – no fault brain diseases” – Kaiser Permanente Multi Family Group Presenter

2009 “Depression Update” – Kaiser Permanente NP Convocation

Presenter

2011 “The Bipolar Spectrum: improving diagnosis and treatment" – presentation to Kaiser Permanente Northern California Region Psychology Interns and Postdoctoral Fellows

Presenter

2011 "Lies, damn lies, and statistics: making sense of clinical research to improve patient care" Presented to San Francisco APNA peer consultation group, San Francisco, CA - Presenter

2011 “Differentiating bipolar disorder from borderline personality disorder” – Psychiatry Grand Rounds presentation, The Permanente Medical Group, Redwood City, CA - Presenter

2011 “Why won’t they take their meds? Utilizing motivational interviewing to prevent medication nonadherence” – Kaiser Permanente Nursing Conference, Redwood City, CA

Presenter

2011 “More than Just the Blues: How Catching Depression Saves Lives” – invited presentation, Kaiser Permanente Redwood City Nursing Conference - Presenter

2013 “Spice, Bath Salts, and Salvia: Emerging drugs of abuse” – Grand Rounds, Sonoma County Mental Health, Santa Rosa, CA Presenter

2013 “Spice, Bath Salts, and Salvia: Emerging drugs of abuse” – Continuing Education Presentation, Kaiser Permanente, San Jose, CA

Presenter

2013 “How Substances of Abuse Work and how not to die using them” – City College of San Francisco, Human Biology Lecture - Presenter

2015 “Understanding the placebo effect: helping the mind to heal itself” – Invited presentation, Kaiser Redwood City Nursing Conference - Presenter

2016 “The Ghost in the Machine? Understanding change phenomena in psychedelic assisted therapy” – Invited presentation, ERIE Symposium - Presenter

2016 "Psychopharmacology refresher for therapists” – Invited presentation, The Well Clinic, San Francisco, CA - Presenter

2016 “Understanding the placebo effect: helping the mind to heal itself” – Invited presentation, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, Gastroenterology Grand Rounds - Presenter

2017 "Cannabis: Its psychotropic effects, and what primary care physicians need to know" - Invited presentation, Palo Alto Medical Foundation (Santa Cruz) Primary Care Conference

Presenter

2019 “HIV, Palliative Care Nursing, and Mental Health: A Case for Psychedelics” – Invited guest lecture with Brian Anderson, MD, N249D ( UCSF Palliative care nursing), August, 2019 - Presenter

2019 “HIV, Palliative Care Nursing, and Mental Health: A Case for Psychedelics” – Invited guest lecture with Brian Anderson, MD, National Hartford Center for Geriatric Nursing Excellence, October 2019 - Presenter

2019 “The Endocannabinoid system in the PACU” – Invited talk, UCSF PACU Nursing Conference, November 2019 - Presenter

2019 - “Getting Unstuck: the promise of psychedelic assisted therapies”– Invited talk, SF VA/UCSF NP residency program, November 2019- Presenter

2019 “Getting Unstuck: the promise of psychedelic assisted therapies”– Invited talk, UCSF Langley Porter Depression Center for Excellence meeting, November 2019 -Presenter

2020 “Gabapentinoids: safe anxiolytic or active placebo?”– Invited talk, SF VA/UCSF NP/MD residency program, February 2020 - Presenter

2020 “Medication assisted therapy for PTSD” – Invited rounds, PTSD Clinical Treatment Clinic, San Francisco Veterans Administration Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, March 2020

Presenter

2020 "Getting Unstuck: the promise of psychedelic assisted therapies"- California Association for Clinical Social Work, Palo Alto, CA, September 2020 - Presenter

2020 “Getting Unstuck: the promise of psychedelic assisted therapies”– Invited Grand Rounds, Alta Bates Hospital, Berkeley, CA November 2020 - Presenter

2021 “What can nursing teach us about how to be a psychedelic therapist?” – Invited talk, Hospice Givings Foundation of the Monterey Bay, Monterey, CA, April 2021 - Presenter

2021 “Getting Unstuck: the promise of psychedelic assisted therapies”– Invited Guest Lecture, Kaiser West Bay Postdoctoral Fellowship, April 2021 - Presenter

2021 “Getting Unstuck: the promise of psychedelic assisted therapies”– Invited Guest Lecture, UCSF Integrative Health Elective course, October 2021 - Presenter

2021 "A Brief History of Psychedelics" (Guest speaker Hist 385), Western Illinois University, Macomb, Ill October 2021 - Presenter

2022 "Reunited and it feels so good: Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Magnify Each Other With Psychedelics" - Invited Guest Lecture, Kaiser West Bay Postdoctoral Fellowship, April 2022

Presenter

2022 "Reunited and it feels so good: Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Magnify Each Other With Psychedelics" - Invited Guest Lecture, TrPR Lab postdoctoral fellowship, June 2022 - Presenter

2022 "Working with Challenging Clients Within the VA System" - Invited Guest Lecture, VA (Veteran Employment and Rehabilitation) Hospital, June 2022 - Presenter

2022 "Modern psychedelic-assisted therapy (PAT) protocols," Invited Guest Lecture Berkeley Center for Psychedelic Studies, September 2022 - Presenter

2022 "Making Decisions with Biomedical Evidence: Intro to Evaluation and Critique of Biomedical Data on Psychedelic Therapies" , Invited Guest Lecture Berkeley Center for Psychedelic Studies, September 2022 - Presenter

2022 "Getting Unstuck - The Future of Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy," Invited speaker, UCSF Health Advanced Practice Conference, October 2022 - Presenter

2023 "Psychedelics Research at UCSF"- Invited speaker, UCSF Alumni Day (With Robin Carhart-Harris, PhD and Jennifer Mitchell, PhD), May 2023 - Presenter

2023 “Updates in Psychedelics: Where are we now and where are we headed?” – Invited presentation, Telecare Mental Health Grand Rounds, Alameda, CA, June 2023

Presenter

2023 “An Introduction to Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy for Cancer and Palliative Care” – Invited presentation with Wendy Marussich, RN, PhD, PMHNP – UCSF Outpatient Oncology Dept, July 2023 - co-Presenter

2023 "Updates in Psychedelics: Where We Are Now and Where We Are Headed" - Invited presentation, UCSF SOM Integrative Medicine Elective, October 2023 - Presenter

2024 "Psychedelics:The Now and The Future of Mental Health Treatment" - Invited Keynote, Fora Health, Portland, OR, January 2024 - Presenter

2024 "Remarkable Discoveries from the Heifits Lab" - Conversation with Boris Heifits, MD, PhD - Discovery Sessions, San Francisco, CA, April 2024 - Panelist

2024 “How to keep psychedelics from going off the rails” – presentation with Charles Raison, MD, Vail Health, Vail, CO, April 2024 - co-Presenter

2024 "Addiction and Psychedelics Research" - San Francisco/Marin Medical Society Annual Conference, May 2024 - Presenter

2024 "Psychedelics and Oncology Nursing" - Oncology Nursing Society, Bay Area Chapter - October 2024 Presenter

2024 "MDMA/PTSD: FDA, NDA, WTF?" - Psychedelic Entheogenic Academic Council/Haight Ashbury Free clinic talk - San Francisco, CA - October 2024 - Presenter/Panelist