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“We found that clinicians' attitudes toward patients with substance use disorders (SUD) are worse than toward other medical or mental illnesses, and that attitudes worsen over time.”
In this Mental Health Proceedings, Dr. Jonathan Avery, Vice Chair of Addiction Psychiatry and Program Director of the Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell Medical Center, says: Psychiatric Times® is a preview of a talk scheduled for the 2024 American Psychiatric Association (APA) Annual Meeting, “Affective Computing and the Mind: Leveraging New Technologies to Improve Medical Education in Substance Use Disorders.”
In this presentation, Avery and colleagues from Weill Cornell University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will discuss how affective computing technology and other new technological interventions can address the stigma associated with SUDs and help clinicians understand how SUD patients Discuss how it can help improve the care you receive. .
Avery et al. will present “Affective Computing and the Mind: Improving Medical Education in Substance Use Disorders” at the 2024 APA Annual Meeting on Saturday, May 4, from 8:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. ET. We are planning to make a presentation on the use of new technology. The presentation will be held in the Javits Center, room 1E07.
Dr. Avery He is vice chair of addiction psychiatry and program director of the addiction psychiatry fellowship at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital's Weill Cornell Medical Center.
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