APPNA Academy

Course Description: The purpose of this online course is to enhance the knowledge and skills of clinicians (psychiatrists, psychiatry trainees and pediatricians) and related professionals working with children and adolescent psychiatric disorders struggling with psychiatric illnesses. The course will provide an overview of common psychiatric problems seen in the primary care office, based on current best practice guidelines. We will use an active learning approach through live interactive sessions and engaging participants in discussions. This program will complement basic training and short courses offered in Pakistan for general practitioners to bridge the gap of specialty care, especially in underserved areas of Pakistan. 

Target Audience: 

Primary: Primary care and specialty physicians (General Practitioners, Pediatricians, Psychiatrists), Psychologists and related mental health practitioners currently working with patients with psychiatric disorders.

Secondary: Medical Students

Learning Objectives:

1. Develop a basic approach and ability to perform psychiatric assessment.
2. Understand the application of screening tools for psychiatric problems in children and adolescents presenting in a Primary Care setting.
3. Discuss evaluation and diagnostic approaches for various psychiatric disorders 
4. Discuss treatment modalities for common psychiatric disorders in children and adolescents in the primary care setting.

Course Faculty:

Muhammad Waqar Azeem, MD

Inaugural Chair of Psychiatry / Child Psychiatry, Sidra Medicine, Qatar

Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College / Cornell University

Cathyrn Galanter, MD
Visiting Associate Professor of Psychiatry

Director, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship Program

SUNY Downstate/Kings County Hospital Center, NY

Robert Sahl, MD

Division Chief, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Institute of Living, CT

Nazish Imran, MBBS, FRCPsych (London), MRCPsych (London),

MHPE, PhD. Professor, Child & Family Psychiatry,

King Edward Medical University, Lahore Pakistan

Ahsan Nazeer, MD 

Associate Professor Weill Cornell Medical College

Division Chief, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Sidra Medicine, Qatar

Khalid Imran Afzal, MD

Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience

Director, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Consult-Liaison Service

University of Chicago, IL

Salma Malik, MD 

Program Director, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 

Institute of Living, CT

Zheala Qayyum, MD, MMSc

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry (Adjunct), Yale School of Medicine, CT

Jennifer Zajac, MD 

Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Institute of Living, CT

Finza Latif, MD

Assistant Professor Weill Cornell Medical College

Program Director, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Sidra Medicine, Qatar

Muhammad Zeshan, MD

President, PAPANA

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Rutgers University, NJ

Kiran Khalid, MD

Clerkship Director, Psychiatry

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Carilion Clinic, VA

Manal Farrukh Khan, MD 

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, UCLA Health, CA