American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting On Demand 2026

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American Psychiatric Association 2026 Annual Meeting on Demand

The 2026 APA Annual Meeting OnDemand experience offers flexible, self-paced learning designed to fit your schedule. Access premium meeting content anytime, anywhere, whether at home, in the office, or while traveling. View presentations with synchronized slides and audio, or download MP3 files for convenient, on-the-go listening. This streamlined format allows you to engage with high-quality educational content from the 2026 APA Annual Meeting on your own time, across any device.

Program Release Date: May 17, 2025

Program Objectives

Upon completing this educational activity, participants will be able to:

• Describe new research findings in psychiatry and neuroscience and how they may impact practice
• Apply quality improvement strategies to improve clinical care
• Provide culturally competent care for diverse populations
• Describe the utility of psychotherapeutic and pharmacological treatment options
• Integrate knowledge of current psychiatry into discussions with patients
• Identify barriers to care, including health service delivery issues

Target Audience

• Psychiatrists, psychiatrists in training, and other clinicians
• Best for psychiatrists, psychologists, and mental health clinicians who want updates on psychopharmacology, clinical practices, and research.

+ Topics:

Saturday (5/16)

• “In This Economy?!”: Taking Control of Psychiatric Practice with Resource-Smart Lifestyle Psychiatry Interventions

• Advancing Quality Improvement in Psychiatry: Case Examples in Education Informatics and Innovation

• Antipsychotic Weight Gain in SMI: Integrating GLP1 receptor agonists into your clinical practice.

• Applying APA Practice Guidelines to the Real World: Benefits and Barriers to Evidence-Based Care

• Artificial Intelligence: Highway to Heaven or Road to Hell?

• ASD Assessment, Diagnosis, and Treatment Planning Across the Lifespan from Childhood through Adulthood for the Clinician

• Autism Meets Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Psychiatrist’s Guide to Differentiating and Empowering the Diagnostic and Treatment Gray Zone

• Beyond Burden, Toward Value: Psychiatry at the Crossroads of Value-Based Care

• Beyond the Familiar: Deep Brain Stimulation, Ketamine, Stellate Ganglion Block, and Vagus Nerve Stimulation in Interventional Psychiatry

• Clinical Relevance of Big Data Studies – What Can Clinicians Learn From Them?

• Current Perspectives on Treatment Resistant Depression

• Emergency Department or Crisis Response Center? Where Do I Belong?

• Expanding Knowledge and Optimizing Safety: Best Practices for Psychiatrists Working with Advanced Practice Providers in Diverse Settings

• From Molecular Mechanisms to Global Health Equity: The New Frontier in Psychiatric Genomics Research

• Involuntary Commitment in Psychiatry: What We Know, What We Don’t, and What’s at Stake

• Mind Over Matter: Resilience, Risk, and Recovery in Military and Sports Settings

• Psychodynamic Psychopharmacology: Using Practical Psychodynamics to Understand and Address Pharmacologic Treatment-Resistance

• Safeguarding Patients, Supporting Clinicians: How Do We Address Cognitive Concerns in Aging Colleagues?

• The Impact of Immigration Trends and ICE Raids on First-Generation Children: Clinical Considerations for Mental Health Professionals

• The Last of Us: Surviving AI through Resilient Policies in Medical Education

• The Missing Face of Catatonia: An Overview of Catatonia in the Context of Addiction

• The New DSM Z Code for Moral Problems: What Does It Add?

• The Road After Residency: Scopes and Barriers and Immigration Impacts for IMGs

• The Startup Psychiatrist: Building Mental Health Ventures That Heal

• Translating Psychiatric Genetics Into Better Clinical Care

• Training the Next Generation: Building the Field of Academic Sports Psychiatry Education

• What Can NIDA Research on Collaborative Care Models Teach Us About Improving Substance Use Care?

• What’s in the Name? Approaches to Enhancing Patient-Centered Care in Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders

Sunday (5/17)

• A Death by Any Other Name: MAiD Experts Respond to a Case of Potential Suicide

• A Role for AI to Expand Mental Health Care Assessment and Treatment in an Under-Resourced Community Setting

• Applying to Psychiatry Residency? This Program Directors Panel Has Answers!

• Balancing Minds and Organs on Lithium: Navigating Bipolar Disorder with Thyroid and Kidney Challenges

• Basics of Psychodermatology: The Overlap Between Psychiatry and Dermatology Presents Opportunities for a Rewarding Psychiatric Practice

• Beyond Psychopharmacology, Empowering Psychiatrists to Build an Interventional Practice

• Bipolar Illness: An Update on Recent Research

• Carving Meaningful, Fulfilling Career Paths in Psychiatry: Association of Women Psychiatrists’ Presidential Session

• Catching Faking: Malingering Detection for the General Psychiatrist

• Childbirth-Related PTSD: Recognizing and Treating a Unique Subtype of PTSD

• Clinical Insights From Neuroimaging of Substance Use Disorders

• Decoding OCD: Diagnostic Dilemmas and Emerging Treatments in OCD

• Diagnosing Dementia: An Updated Roadmap for Clinical Practice

• Designing a Safer Workplace: Addressing Violence in Inpatient Psychiatry

• Empowering Practice Through Telepsychiatry: Practical Logistics Across Psychiatric Subspecialties

• Empowering Psychiatric Residents in Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Education and Practice

• Empowering Psychiatrists in Supporting Student Mental Health

• Essential Management Skills for Psychiatric Medical Directors and Executive Leaders

• Empowering the Psychiatric Workforce: Advocacy for Our Patients and Practices

• Empowering the Psychiatric Workforce: Taking Control of our Time to Optimize Professional and Personal Wellbeing

• Food, Nutrition, and Mental Health: Practical Approaches for Nutrition Counseling with Patients

• From Brain to Blood: Mechanism-Based Biomarkers for Psychosis Prediction and Personalized Early Intervention

• From Clinical to Capitol! Understanding advocacy and policy through psychiatric integration at local, state, and national levels

• From School to the Emergency Room: The Threat Continuum

• Guns ‘n Roses: Intimate Partner Violence, Red Flags, and the Law

• Hippocrates Revisited: Psychiatric Ethics in Modern Clinical Practice

• Integrating Cannabis Therapeutics in Psycho-oncology: Evidence-Based Practices, Perspectives of Adults with Cancer, and Ethical Considerations

• The NIH Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD)? Study Reaches its own Developmental Milestone

• Lifestyle Interventions for Depression: Expert Consensus

• Mixed Features in Persons with Depressive and Bipolar Disorder: Historical, Conceptual, Nosological and Clinical Implications

• Moving the Needle in Combating the Opioid Epidemic: Leveraging Partnerships to Expand the Capabilities of the Psychiatrist

• Medications Development for Cannabis and Alcohol Use Disorders

• Precision Psychiatry: Addressing Unmet Needs in Clinical Practice

• One Patient, Multiple Needs: Treating AUD, PTSD plus

• Privacy vs Publicity in the Digital Age-Tales From Four Psychiatrists

• Prognostic Molecular Markers in PTSD: From Vulnerability to Recovery

• Psych on the Mic: Podcasting in Psychiatric Education and Continuing Professional Development

• Reaching Across Party Lines- Managing Functional Neurological Disorder in the Inpatient Medical Setting

• Simon Bolivar Award: Reimagining Academic Medicine to Ensure That All Faculty Thrive: A Focus on Policies to Support Caregivers

• Reconceptualizing Placebo and Nocebo Effects in Psychiatry

• Stand and Deliver: Testifying with Authority as a Clinical Psychiatrist

• Strategies to Advance Clinical, Academic, and Public Health Excellence in the Face of Global Mental Health Challenges

• Deprescribing 1: Benzodiazepines and Z-Drugs

• Deprescribing Antipsychotics: Why, When, How

• The Global Economic Case for Investment in Mental Health

• Two Sides of a Scale: Balancing Lifestyle and Pharmacology for Weight Management

• What Comes Next? Co-Creating the Future of Psychiatric Training and Practice

• When Disaster Hits Home: How Every Psychiatrist Can Engage in Disaster Preparedness and Response

Monday (5/18)

• “Tell Me About Your Use of Chatbots”: A Clinician’s Guide to Integrating AI Use Into the Patient Interview

• AI and Large Language Models Beyond Therapy: Clinical Evidence, Regulatory Consideration, and Next Generation Features

• Behind the Mask: When Trauma Looks Like Depression, Anxiety, ADHD or Psychosis

• Bipolar Disorders Treating Comorbid Conditions: Substance Use Disorders

• Capacity Building for Mental Health Care, Research, and Education: From America to the World and Back

• Clozapine Monitoring – Life After REMS

• Collaborative Care: Leveraging Psychiatry to Improve Mental Health at the Population Level

• Death Anxiety in Serious Illness: Clinical Insights for Psychiatry

• Decoding “Pregnancy Brain”: Neuroendocrine Shifts and Psychiatric Presentations

• Digital Therapeutics to Treat Comorbid Substance Use and Psychiatric Disorders

• Eco-Medicine and the Mind: Redefining Psychiatric Practice in a Changing Climate

• Empowering Women in Psychiatry: Development and Advancement Strategies for Early Career Psychiatrists

• Empowerment and Inspiration: Equipping Psychiatrists To Integrate Spirituality and Religion in Child and Adolescent Practice

• From Obstacles to Opportunities: IMG Struggles and Success in Residency Match and Beyond – Program Director’s Views

• From Practice to Purpose: Cultivating Leadership in Psychiatry

• From Research to Practice: Issues Arising in Psychiatric Patients Who Use Cannabis

• From Trainee to Changemaker: Experiential Leadership Skills for Psychiatry’s Next Generation

• Future of the DSM – A Strategic Vision

• Future-Proofing Psychiatry: Why Measurement-Based Care Is No Longer Optional

• GLP-1 Receptor Agonists for Alcohol Use Disorder: Converging Evidence Across Multiple Human Trials

• Guiding patients through the wilderness of mobile health applications, an update to APA’s App Advisor tool

• Herbs, Nutrients, and more for Disorders of Mood, Anxiety, Trauma, Cognitive Function, ADHD, and Sexual Function

• Inflammation in the Brain and the Body

• Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy for Trauma and Depression

• Leading From Every Seat: Five Leadership Skills for Psychiatrists

• Making the Treatment of Trauma Enjoyable with Accelerated Resolution Therapy

• Management of Severe Mental Illness During Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period

• Manfred S. Guttmacher Award: Critical Issues in Forensic Addiction Psychiatry

• Microbiome Gut Brain Axis: Innovative Interventions for Patient Care

• New Program Development and Expansion of Programs: A Resource Toolkit

• Practical Management with “Scary” Meds: How to Impress Your Attending After APA

• Psychiatric Malpractice – A Primer for the General Psychiatrist

• Psychiatrists as Co-Designers of Safe AI: A Practicum in Evaluating LLM-Based Chatbots

• Psychiatry, Law, and APA: Mental Health Policy In and Out of the Courts

• Revitalizing community psychiatry Part II: Present challenges that impact our future capacity to disrupt, include, engage and innovat

• Sex, Drugs, and Mental Health: A Psychiatrist’s Guide to Desire and Dysfunction

• The Biopsychosocial Impact of Gambling Disorder

• The PNEI Nexus: Multidirectional Interactions Between Alimentary, Humoral, Immunological, Dermatological, and Psychiatric Systems.

• Vestermark Award: Preserving the Art of Medical Lecturing

• Yes, You Can Treat Substance Use Disorders in Your Psychiatric Practice

Tuesday (5/19)

• Adolf Meyer Award: Psychotherapy Must Remain an Integral Part of Psychiatry

• Borderline, Bipolar, or Both: The Diagnostic Dilemma

• Breaking Barriers: Expanding Psychiatric Access in America

• Brief Educational Interventions to Empower the Psychiatric Workforce to Decrease Addiction Stigma

• Feeling stuck, unsure, bored or worried with patients? Jump start effective care with mentalizing!

• From Tantrums to Triggers: The Diagnostic Puzzle of Irritability in Children and Adolescents

• Flourishing as a Woman Physician Leader: Strategies Across the Career Continuum

• Graying with Complexity: Addressing Psychiatric Care and Needs of Older Adults with Neurodevelopmental Disorders

• High Suicide Risk in Autism: Pathways to Hope and Prevention

• Innovation for Impact in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

• Humor and Balance as Therapeutic Resources: Tools and Techniques in Positive and Transcultural Psychotherapy

• Integrating Neurobiology and Psychiatric Nosology – DSM in the Next Era

• Lessons in Resilience and Building a Sustainable Career for Clinicians and Researchers: A Distinguished Psychiatrist Lecture

• Military Cultural Competency: A primer for psychiatrists

• Mission Ready Sleep: Adapting CBT-I to Military Challenges

• Monetizing the Social Impact of Psychiatry: Flipping the Dialouge

• Mock Trial on Testamentary Capacity and Undue Influence

• Monoamines and so Much More: How Lifestyle Interventions Target Novel Hypotheses of Depression

• Navigating Misconceptions Around the Use of Psychotropics in Pregnancy

• New Developments in the Diagnosis of Personality Disorders and Their Clinical Importance

• Next-Gen Psychiatry: Pathways to Interventional Psychiatry Training

• Parasomnia and the Sleepwalker Defense: When Sleep Becomes a Crime

• Pills, Performance, and Permission: Management of Elite Athletes with Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

• Positive Psychiatry and Global Empowerment: Strengthening Well-Being Across Borders

• Preparing the Psychiatric Workforce: Recognizing and Treating Cannabis Use Disorder in Older Adults

• Psychedelics as Psychiatric Treatment: Hope or Hype?

• Psychiatric Chronification: When the Patient’s Use of Medications Does Not Promote Mental Health

• Psychiatry at a Crossroads: Empowering Canada’s Workforce

• Psychiatry at the Crossroads: Weight Stigma, Mental Health, and the New Era of Obesity Treatments

• Reimagining Psychiatry’s Career Ladder: Lessons From Big 4 Consulting for Sustainable Growth

• Rethinking the Inpatient Psychiatric Unit Experience – The Impact of Architectural Design

• Sharing Our Expertise: Teaching Psychological Skills to Palliative Care Clinicians

• Secret Levels: Video Game Personas and Dual Virtual Lives

• Setting the Record Straight on Physician Health Programs in the United States

• SSRIs: Efficacy and Safety From Childhood to Young Adulthood

• Shifting Landscapes: Epidemiology of Ketamine, LSD, and Psilocybin Use Amid Psychiatry’s Psychedelic Renaissance

• Stimulants for ADHD: Did We Get It Wrong? Questioning the Sustainability of Stimulants for Life

• The Evolution of Sports Psychiatry at International and National Levels

• The Future of Psychiatric Classification: Strategic Work on A New Diagnostic and Scientific Manual (DSM)

• The Most Recent US Data on Medical Aid in Dying: Vulnerability, Protection, Access, and Justice

• The Much Too Medicated Patient: Rational and Irrational Polypharmacy

• Toward Precision Psychiatry in PTSD: Subtype Discovery From Molecular and Neural Signatures

• What’s Your Dosha? Ayurvedic Phenotypes for Targeted Treatment in Major Depression

• What Every Psychiatrist Needs To Know About TMS

• Yes, You Can! Empowering the Psychiatric Workforce through Teaching and Bolstering Psychotherapy Skills for Substance Use Disorders

• Unhoused, Unseen, Untreated, America’s Housing Crisis: What does the evidence say about housing, homelessness, and mental health?

Wednesday (5/20)

• A Psychiatrist’s Guide to Digital Interventions and Augmented Intelligence for Mental Health

• Beyond the Individual: Cultivating Community, Forging Alliances, and Leveraging Professional Organizations for Women Hispanic Psychiatrists

• Bipolar Disorder: Diagnose Like an Expert

• ECP Panic Relief: When Patients Ask If You Do Psychotherapy, Here is Where to Start

• Empowering Your Practice: Home Neuromodulation Implementation One Device at a Time

• From Promise to Practice: Psychedelic Research for Everyday Psychiatry

• Pediatric Neuromodulation: Stepwise Innovations in Empowering Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist

• Psychiatric Care – Wellness Therapies

• Saving Lives of Older Adults on Lithium for Bipolar Disorder: A Global Quality Improvement Initiative to Implement Change in Laboratory Reporting

• Shots Fired and Shots Poured: How Neural Pathways in Post-Traumatic Stess Disorder and Alcohol Use Disorder Inform Effective Dual Diagnosis Treatment

• Special Considerations for Providing Comprehensive Mental Health Support to Youth Involved in Hostage Taking and Wrongful Detention

• Taking Action Together: Leveraging the Organized Medicine Policy Process to Protect Patients and Empower the Psychiatric Workforce

• Taking Care of the Eating Disorder Patient Across the Lifespan

• The Clock Within: The Impact of Circadian Rhythm on Health and Implications for Psychiatric Practice

• The NNDC Revisiting Contrasting Dopamine Antagonist / Agonist Mechanism of Actions in Clinical Practice of Mood Disorders

• The Role of AI and Humane Intelligence in Advancing Healthy Aging in Psychiatry

• Understanding and Preventing Targeted Violence Against Psychiatrists

• Updates in the Assessment and Management of Clozapine Induced Myocarditis

• Using Artificial Intelligence for Suicide Risk Stratification: The National Resident Policy Debate