Perinatal Mental Health Symposium
Tuesday, March 20, 2018
In collaboration with Pregnancy and Postpartum Support Minnesota (PPSM), the University of Minnesota, Department of Psychiatry, Women's Wellbeing Program will be sponsoring a reproductive psychiatry training opportunity and perinatal mental health symposium for anyone who intersects with the perinatal population, across all disciplines and levels of training, to learn more about the identification, treatment, and impact of Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders (PMADs).
A certificate of completion will be offered.
This event is free of charge and all are welcome.
Watch Live Online
To watch the symposium live online:
- Using Internet Explorer, Chrome or Firefox on a PC, Mac or Android, use this address to join: https://join.fairview.org/invited.sf?secret=Rj2s505kROeMLhUjAEsH6Q&id=55314 OR enter http://join.fairview.org and enter meeting ID: 55314. Enter passcode 4287.
- Using the Acano client on a PC, Mac, iPad or iPhone, join the CoSpace: perinatal.mental.health.symposium
- From a video-enabled conference room, dial: perinatal.mental.health.symposium@join.fairview.org
- From Lync, dial perinatal.mental.health.symposium@join.fairview.org
To listen to the symposium as audio only:
- Call: 612-313-8775
- Enter code: 55314
- Enter PIN: 4287
Event Timetable
8:00am-Noon
Morning Training: This 4 hour training will include in-depth information related to: symptoms of PMADs, diagnosis, therapy, medication and resource access for pregnant and perinatal families. This morning training will provide excellent background and foundational information for the later afternoon symposium. The training will be provided by Samantha Huguelet, DNP APRN CNS and Crystal Clancy, MA LMFT, both with expertise in PMADs.
1:00-4:30pm
Afternoon Symposium: The afternoon symposium will highlight the exciting work being done in perinatal mental health throughout the University of Minnesota as well as in the community, further raising awareness of available resources and support in a plenary speaker format. The symposium will encourage multidisciplinary collaboration to better serve our perinatal population by addressing the following topics in perinatal mood and anxiety disorders: multi-generational impact, biology of perinatal women, and clinical subtopics.
Details of the agenda and symposium are attached below.
Please note lunch will not be provided,
however there are numerous places in the local area to grab a bite to eat.
Directions and Parking
Wilf Family Center Auditorium
Lactation Spaces on the West Bank
UMN offers a number of lactation spaces on the Twin Cities campus. See a list of lactation spaces here. You can print out and post the sign below when using lactation spaces to ensure your privacy. Feel free to share the door sign with others. Breastfeeding in Session door sign (pdf)
EAST BUILDING
Room MB450
(Door Code #4125)
Take East Building elevators (near the Chapel)
to the 4th Floor
2450 Riverside Avenue
If you have additional questions and concerns about lactation spaces or resources, please contact Susan Warfield, (warfi002@umn.edu), Lactation Advocacy Committee member.
West Bank Parking Map
Visitors may park in the Green ramp, located underneath the children's hospital building (at the intersection of 25th Avenue and 7th Street). Valet parking also is available at the entrance of the children's hospital. Additional parking is available in the Red or Yellow parking ramps.
Please note there will be no reimbursement or discount for ramp parking for this event.
For those of you on the East Bank, we recommend taking the Fairview Shuttle. It picks up at VCRC & drops off at the Rehab Building (by request) next to the UMMC Masonic Children's Hospital where the event is being held.
SHUTTLE PICK-UP LOCATIONS:
EAST BANK
Variety Club Research Ctr
401 E River Pkwy
WEST BANK
Rehab Building
2512 S 7th St
WEST BANK
West Physician Lot
2312 S 6th St
Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders Trainers
Crystal Clancy, MA, LMFT
Crystal Clancy is a licensed marriage and family therapist, and has a private practice in Burnsville that focuses on reproductive & perinatal mental health with individuals and couples.
She is Co-founder and Executive Director of Community Engagement for Pregnancy and Postpartum Support MN (www.ppsupportmn.org), a nonprofit that gets new expectant parents who are struggling connected with mental health support and resources. They also develop provider and community education on this topic. PPSM is the State Chapter of Postpartum Support International, which was the 5th State Chapter in the country!
Samantha Huguelet, DNP, APRN, CNS
Samantha Huguelet is an advanced practice nurse working in an outpatient mental health clinic system throughout Minnesota. She specializes in reproductive psychiatry and is the Community Education Director for Pregnancy and Postpartum Support Minnesota. She is also the Pregnancy Support International Minnesota state liaison.
Plenary Speakers
Benita Dieperink, MD
Dr. Benita Dieperink received her Medical Doctor degree from the University of Minnesota. During residency training in adult psychiatry, she developed an interest in the emerging subspecialty of Reproductive Psychiatry. With colleagues, she established the Hennepin Women's Mental Health Program in 1999. Dr. Dieperink has given care and consultation to OB/Midwifery colleagues, since 2004, as a psychiatrist embedded in the high risk OB clinic. In 2013, the HCMC Mother-Baby Day Hospital opened, where specialized care is given, for pregnant and postpartum women with significant mental distress. The Mother-Baby Program at HCMC continues to expand expertise and services to care for the needs of childbearing families. “Upsteam medicine”, looking at the root contributors to mental health crises in childbearing women, is also a focus of our work.
Anne R. Gearity, PhD
Brittany Howell, PhD
Cresta Jones, MD, FACOG
Jesse Kuendig, LICSW
Katherine Lingras, PhD, LP
Dr. Katherine (Katie) Lingras is an Assistant Professor and Licensed Child Psychologist in the Psychiatry Department of the University of Minnesota, where she specializes in early childhood mental health, emotional/behavioral regulation concerns, and dyadic (parent-child) treatment. Her clinical work and research is focused on social-emotional development and building the capacities of the adults who care for them. Dr. Lingras co-directs the Psychiatry Department’s Early Childhood Program, which provides assessment and outpatient parent-child treatment, and also works within the community providing mental health consultation and professional development training in early care and education settings and primary care clinics. Her research strives to bridge gaps between early childhood mental health research and community-based practice.
Dr. Lingras is a certified group leader in the Incredible Years Teacher Classroom Management training and has led child, parent, and teacher groups, and provided mental health consultation for HeadStart/preschool programs and school districts around the country. Dr. Lingras completed her undergraduate and co-terminal Master’s degrees in Psychology at Stanford University and her doctoral work at the University of Minnesota’s Institute for Child Development.