May 2023 Psychiatry Conference Recordings | FACULTY

Jack Krasuski, MD

• Executive Director, American Physician Institute for Advanced Professional Studies, Westmont, IL

Dr. Krasuski spent three years as a Senior Staff Fellow at the National Institute on Aging, NIH, where he did research in the neuroimaging of dementing disorders. Currently, he spends most of his time lecturing to thousands of physicians yearly on psychiatric topics. He is known for his ability to clearly explain complex and little understood topics.

Alan Peterson, PhD

Dr. Alan Peterson is Aaron and Bobbie Elliott Krus Endowed Chair in Psychiatry and Professor and Chief of the Division of Behavioral Medicine in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. He is Director of the STRONG STAR Consortium and the Consortium to Alleviate PTSD. Dr. Peterson served previously as Chair of the Department of Psychology and Clinical Health Psychology Fellowship Program Director at Wilford Hall Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas. His research and publications focus on posttraumatic stress disorder, tobacco cessation, pain management, weight management, insomnia, temporomandibular disorders, tic disorders, aerophagia, and blepharospasm.

Ximena Sanchez-Samper, MD

• Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
• Co-director, Project Echo Opioid Use Disorder, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC

Dr. Ximena Sanchez-Samper is a board-certified addiction psychiatrist. Dr. Sanchez-Samper trained at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., and completed her addictions fellowship through Massachusetts General Hospital in 2004. After working with adolescents and young adults (and their families) with substance use disorders at Children’s Hospital Boston for many years, she transferred to McLean Hospital where she was the Medical Director at one of one of their residential programs.

Dr. Sanchez-Samper is an advocate of incorporating Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) into the comprehensive care of patients struggling with alcohol and opioid use disorders and has been prescribing Buprenorphine (Suboxone) since obtaining her waiver in 2003. She co-authored both a book chapter (“Opioid Use by Adolescents,” Handbook of Office-Based Buprenorphine Treatment of Opioid Dependence, 2011) and published an article in a peer review journal (“Adolescent Substance Abuse”, General Considerations, Pediatrics in Review, 2009) addressing the needs of patients struggling with addiction and its aftermath. Dr. Sanchez-Samper is an instructor at Harvard Medical School and enjoys lecturing nationwide on substance use disorder identification, diagnosis, and treatment.

Kristopher Kaliebe, MD

• Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL

Kristopher Kaliebe, MD is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at University of South Florida (USF). He is Board Certified in Psychiatry, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Forensic Psychiatry. He is a Distinguished Fellow and serves as co-chair of the Media Committee at the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP). Dr. Kaliebe is the (AACAP) Liaison to the American Academy of Pediatrics Council on Communications and Media. His primary clinical work has been in Federally Qualified Health Centers and Juvenile Corrections. Since 2016, Dr. Kaliebe has helped start and maintain yoga programs within the correctional centers where he works. Dr. Kaliebe has extensive training in psychotherapy, including trauma focused therapies. He has been named a Best Doctor annually since 2008.

At USF, he instructs medical students, psychiatry residents and child and adolescent psychiatry fellows and forensic psychiatry fellows. He has created a medical student colloquium (elective) called Mind Body Medicine. Dr Kaliebe has helped USF Psychiatry start a special training track in Integrative Psychiatry in Association with the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine.

Dr Kaliebe’s publications and presentations include on the effect of digital technologies on mental health, Mind Body Medicine, working in Primary Care settings and preventing over diagnosis and over-treatment. Dr Kaliebe tries to stay consistent with his yoga practice. He resides in Tampa.

Joseph McEvoy, MD

Dr. Joseph McEvoy is Director of Public Psychiatry and the I. Clark Case Chair in Psychotic Disorders at Augusta University. He is also Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health at Duke University School of Medicine in Durham, N.C.

Dr. McEvoy obtained his medical degree from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, Tenn. He completed his residency training in internal medicine at the University of Utah Hospital in Salt Lake City and in psychiatry at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

Dr. McEvoy is a distinguished life fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He has served as principal investigator in several key clinical trials and authored more than 200 publications. His research interests include movement disorders and abnormal involuntary movements.

Karen Martinez-Gonzalez, MD

Dr. Karen G. Martinez-Gonzalez is a child and adolescent psychiatrist in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She is an Associate Professor at the University of Puerto Rico where she directs the Center for the Study and Treatment of Fear and Anxiety and is the Chair of the Department of Psychiatry. She also completed a Post-Doctoral Master’s in Clinical and Translational Research in 2006 and is now the Principal Investigator and Director of this program. She is also the Principal Investigator of a grant studying the epigenetic and microbial profile of prenatal stress related to Hurricane María and the site principal investigator of the Latin American Trans-Ancestry Initiative for OCD Genomics study. She is an active member of several professional organizations, such as the Anxiety and Depression Association of America where she recently received the Member Recognition Award for her work on the Multicultural and the Women’s Mental Health Special Interest Groups. She is also part of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) Trauma and Disaster Committee and president of the Puerto Rico Chapter; member of the board of directors and past president of the Association for Clinical and Translational Science (ACTS).

Lillian Segarra Roig, MD

Dr. Lillian Y. Segarra Roig is an assistant professor and chair of the Psychiatry Department at the University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine. She specializes in psychosomatic medicine, which she practices at the Veterans Affairs Caribbean Healthcare System.

Lelis Nazario, MD

Dr. Lelis L. Nazario Rodriguez is a psychiatry specialist in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She graduated with honors from University Central Del Caribe Escuela De Medicina in 1993. She is Training Director of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Program at the University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine.

2023 Oasis Mini-Conference Recordings | FACULTY

Jack Krasuski, MD

Karen Martinez-Gonzalez, MD

Rajkumar Dasgupta, MD

Antonio Hardan, MD

Steven Pliszka, MD

May 2023 Psychiatry Conference Recordings CME Accreditation

Accreditation Statement:

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essentials and Standards of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint sponsorship of PeerPoint Medical Education Institute and The American Physician Institute for Advanced Professional Studies, LLC. PeerPoint Medical Education Institute is accredited by the ACCME to sponsor continuing medical education for physicians.

Oasis 2023 Psychiatry Conference Designation Statement:
Online Course, Release Date May 4, 2023, Termination Date, May 3, 2026:

The PeerPoint Medical Education Institute, LLC designates this enduring material activity for a maximum of 52 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Of these 52 credits: 24 are approved for ABPN Self Assessment credits.

The American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology has reviewed the Oasis 2023 Psychiatry Conference and has approved this program as a part of a comprehensive Self-Assessment Program, which is mandated by the ABMS as a necessary component of Maintenance of Certification.

Oasis 2023 Mini-Conference Designation Statement:
Online Course, Release Date January 28, 2023 Termination Date, January 28, 2026:

Nurses & Nurse Practitioners:

For all your CE requirements for recertification, the ANCC will accept AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ from organizations accredited by the ACCME.

Physician Assistants:

The NCCPA accepts AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ from organizations accredited by the ACCME.

Licensed Psychologists:

Most state boards will accept AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ toward professional development hours. Please confirm with your state board before using this product for professional development hours.