PRESENTATIONS

 

Dr. Aoun was a featured speaker at multiple national and regional professional meetings and conferences:

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• Violence and Criminal Behavior in Persons with SUD. Clinical Rounds – Special Edition, (Invited Grand Rounds Speaker)

National Institute on Drug Abuse , 2020

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• MAT: Medications, Diagnosis and Therapy – 2020 Statewide Conference in Charleston, SC, (Keynote Speaker)

National Association of Drug Court Professionals, 2020

 

• Hormones, Highs & Treatment Horizons: Neuroendocrine Targets in Substance Use Disorders.

American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry Annual Meeting, 2019

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• Treating Pain During the Opioid Epidemic: A Paradox Facing Addiction Psychiatrists.

American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry Annual Meeting, 2019

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• Recognizing and Addressing Stigma in Addiction Psychiatric Practice.

American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry Annual Meeting, 2019

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• Drug Crises: Impact on Professional Autonomy and Standards of Care.

American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Annual Meeting, 2019

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• 50 Years Post-Powell: Addiction and Culpability.

American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Annual Meeting, 2019

 

• Can Addicts Stop Using? A Review of the Roles of Morality and Neuroscience in Shaping the Free Will—Determinism Duality in Substance Use Disorders, (Invited Presentation), (Chair).

Institute for Psychiatric Services Annual Meeting, 2019

 

• Using Medication Assisted Treatment in Treatment Courts - Developing an MAT Protocol Training for Drug Court Judges - Lansing, Michigan (Keynote Speaker)

National Association of Drug Court Professionals, 2019

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• Addiction, Violence and Criminal Behavior. (Invited Grand Round Speaker)

Mount Sinai - Beth Israel Department of Psychiatry, 2019

 

• Leveraging Intergenerational Differences and Strengths: Leadership Development, Education, and Patient Care

Institute for Psychiatric Services Annual Meeting, 2019

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• The Impostor Syndrome: International Medical Graduates Navigating Immigration Challenges and Beyond

Institute for Psychiatric Services Annual Meeting, 2019

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• The Eight Guiding Principles for Behavioral Health and Criminal Justice - Site: Montgomery; Jefferson County

• SAMHSA/GAINS Center and Policy Research Associates Collaboration, 2019

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• Psychiatrists and Law Enforcement Agencies: When Do We Really Have to Tell on our Patients?

American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, 2019

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• Physician Health Programs (PHPs): Battling Burnout, Combating Stigma, and Empowering Physicians to Be Great Again.

American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, 2019

 

• Behavioral Addictions: The Latest Meme or a Real Thing?

American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, 2019

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• The Impostor Syndrome: International Medical Graduates Navigating Immigration Challenges and Beyond.

American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, 2019

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• Psychiatry Side Gigs: How and Why Psychiatrists Are Supplementing Their Income.

American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, 2019

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• Addictions, Violence and Criminal Recidivism: Unweaving a Tangled Web, (Chair).

American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry Annual Meeting, 2018

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• Psychologically-Integrated Approaches to Pain Management- The Opioid Safety Project Webinar Series, (Chair).

AMA/Telligen QIN-QIO Webinar Series Collaboration, 2018

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• Recent Cases, and Why They Matter.

American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Annual Meeting, 2018

 

• Psychiatrists at the Helm of the Opioid Epidemic, (Invited Presidential Forum), (Chair).

American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, 2018

 

• Legal and Ethical Issues of Pregnancy Management in Schizophrenics: The Dilemma of Affording Autonomy Versus Beneficence, (Workshop).

American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, 2018

 

• Forensic issues in addiction psychiatry: testing, treating, clearing, diverting and committing, (Workshop), (Chair).

American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry Annual Meeting, 2017

 

• Substance Use Disorders and the Criminal Justice System, (Invited Presentation).

Institute for Psychiatric Services Annual Meeting, 2017

 

• MAT and Behavioral Strategies to Treat Adolescents with SUD, (Workshop), (Co-Chair).

American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, 2017

 

• The ASAM Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder Course (Including Buprenorphine Waiver Qualifying Requirements), (Course presentation).

University of California in San Francisco Medical School Faculty, 2017

 

• Hormonal Considerations in Alcohol Use Disorder: Novel Treatment Approaches for Alcohol Use Disorder”, (Seminar presentation).

San Francisco Veterans Administration Medical Center – Addiction and Recovery Treatment Services Faculty Development Seminar Series, 2017

 

• Psycho-Neuro-Endocrinology of Addictions: A Clinical Prospective, (Symposium).

American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry Annual Meeting, 2016

 

• Standing up to Violence in Police Encounters: The Players, the Victims, the Trauma and the Solutions, (Workshop), (Chair).

American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, 2016

 

• The Clinical Evaluation and Management of Substance Use Disorders in Transgender Patient Populations, (Workshop), (Co-Chair).

American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, 2016

 

• The Practice of Addiction Medicine with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Patients, (Workshop).

American Society of Addiction Medicine Annual Meeting, 2016

 

• Opioid Use Disorder: Revisiting the Classical Neurobiological Model, (In-Service Rounds).

McLean Hospital, Borden Cottage, 2015

 

• A Discussion on the Recreational and Medical Uses of Marijuana.

Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University (Sponsored by an American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry Regional Travel Grant), 2015

 

• Comorbid OCD and Mood Disorders, (Integrated Clinical Case Conference).

Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior - Butler Hospital, 2013

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