Originally published: . Volume 12, No. 6. Source pages: 15.
The Louisiana Psychological Association will host it's 73rd Annual Conference, "Timely Topics During a Global Crisis," on Friday, June 25 via it's virtual platform.
Keynote speakers are Dr. Peter Isquith, author and developer of The Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function (BRIEF) and Dr. Michael Anestis, Executive Director of the New Jersey Gun Violence Center and author of Guns and Suicide: An American Epidemic who will be presenting on issues related to this year's theme.
The convention will allow attendees to earn up to eight continuing professional development (CPD) credits (including 1 hour of ethics) through attendance at various events including the Science Café, Lunch & Learn, and invited addresses. Also presenting will be Drs. Kristin Fitch & Melissa Dufrene.
Peter Isquith, PhD, is a Developmental Neuro- psychologist, Department of Otolaryngology and Communication Enhancement; Senior Attending Psychologist, Department of Psychiatry and Instructor of Psychology, Harvard Medical School.
He is a licensed psychologist with specialty in development neuropsychology. His research interests are in development and disorders of self-regulation across the lifespan, and his clinical specialty is in working with Deaf and hard of hearing individuals. He is author of several measures of executive function including the Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function family of instruments and the Tasks of Executive Control.
Dr. Michael Anestis will deliver The Janet and Lee Matthews Invited Address. Dr. Mike Anestis is the Executive Director of the New Jersey Gun Violence Research Center and an Associate Professor of Urban- Global Public Health in the School of Public Health at Rutgers. He received his bachelor’s degree from Yale University in 2002 and his Ph.D. in psychology from Florida State in 2011. Dr. Anestis has been a named investigator on approximately $5 million in externally funded suicide prevention grants, including serving as the PI on one of the first randomized controlled trials of lethal means counseling for firearm owning service members – Project Safe Guard.
He served on the means safety task force for the Defense Suicide Prevention Office, and the lethal means line of effort for the PREVENTS task force.
Dr. Anestis currently serves on the research advisory board for the American Foundation for Firearm Injury Reduction in Medicine (AFFIRM) and chairs the firearms and suicide committee for the American Association of Suicidology (AAS).
For more information see the LPA website.
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