Events Mar 23-29
Rajadhar Reddy
Happy Friday everyone! We wanted to share several upcoming great and FREE mental health-related events and opportunities!
- Vox Storytellers: Artist Voices on Mental Health (partnership with Doctors for Change)
TOMORROW Sat Mar 23, 2:45-5:45p
Cafeza (1720 Houston Ave, Houston, TX 77007)
Six local artists from diverse backgrounds and disciplines will share their experiences with mental health in hopes of changing community perceptions and reducing stigma.
- Houston Psychiatric Society: Intersection Between Pain, Addiction, & Mental Health
Speaker: Patrick S Thomas, Jr, MD, PhD of BCM & Menninger Clinic
Wed Mar 27, 6:30-8:30p, Dinner Provided
Third Coast Restaurant, TMC Commons 6th Floor, 6550 Bertner Ave, Houston, TX 77030
(right next to BCM)
FREE RSVP for med students by Mon Mar 25
- UTHealth McGovern Humanities in Film: Girl, Interrupted
Wed Mar 27, 6-8:30p, Optional: pizza for $3 (cash or Venmo)
MSB 2.135, UTHealth McGovern Medical School Building, 6431 Fannin St, Houston, TX 77030 (across the street from BCM)
UTHealth’s McGovern Center for Humanities & Ethics and Student Interest Groups in Neurology & Psychiatry are co-hosting a screening and discussion of this 1999 film chronicling a young woman’s 18-month stay in a psychiatric hospital.
RSVP on Facebook or email morgan...@uth.tmc.edu
- Harris County Medical Society 2019 President, Bernard Gerber, MD
Fri, Mar 29, 12-1p, McMillian, FREE Banh Mi
BCM AMA and PsychMinded are honored to host Dr. Gerber, a psychiatrist at Hauser Clinic and former president of Texas Society of Psychiatric Physicians and Houston Psychiatric Society. He will speak on his path to advocacy leadership, the Texas legislature, and mental health policy.
- PsychSIGN (American Psychiatric Association’s Psychiatry Student Interest Group Network)
PsychSIGN, APA’s med student branch, coordinates year-round opportunities for students and is currently accepting applications for national and regional leadership positions. If interested, find out more on their website!
Great to see so many psychiatry-related opportunities! We hope you enjoy these events. Let me know if you have any questions!
Thank you,
Rajadhar (Raj) Reddy
Baylor College of Medicine | MD Candidate, Year 1
rtr...@bcm.edu | rajadha...@gmail.com