{"id":2334,"date":"2015-12-31T15:17:28","date_gmt":"2015-12-31T15:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/?p=2334"},"modified":"2015-12-31T15:28:35","modified_gmt":"2015-12-31T15:28:35","slug":"jamaica-hospitals-department-of-psychiatry-hosts-one-of-queens-most-successful-psychiatric-symposiums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/jamaica-hospitals-department-of-psychiatry-hosts-one-of-queens-most-successful-psychiatric-symposiums\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamaica Hospital&#8217;s Department of Psychiatry Hosts One of Queens\u2019 Most Successful Psychiatric Symposiums"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb_share_1\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a name=\"fb_share\" type=\"box_count\" share_url=\"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/jamaica-hospitals-department-of-psychiatry-hosts-one-of-queens-most-successful-psychiatric-symposiums\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php\">Share<\/a><\/div><div><script src=\"http:\/\/static.ak.fbcdn.net\/connect.php\/js\/FB.Share\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/div><p>The Jam<a href=\"http:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Psynch-symposium-2-2015.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2335\" src=\"http:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Psynch-symposium-2-2015-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Psynch symposium 2 2015\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a>aica Hospital Medical Center Psychiatry Department\u2019s annual child and adolescent symposium has become one of the most highly anticipated events in the Queens medical community. This year marked the seventh anniversary of the popular program and over 100 people filled the auditorium of the Old Trump Pavilion to discuss the topic of \u201cChildhood Obesity: Its implication and relevance to our practice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The topic of Childhood Obesity was judiciously selected by doctors Vinod Dhar; Associate Chairman of Psychiatry and Madhu Rajanna; Director of Psychiatry Residency Training because obesity has become a health crisis in our nation.\u00a0 The physicians had the goal of not only raising awareness of the disease\u2019s physical implications but also shedding light on the negative effects it can have on children\u2019s mental health.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Psyc-Symposium-2015-3-2015.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2336\" src=\"http:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Psyc-Symposium-2015-3-2015-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Psyc Symposium 2015  3  2015\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Psyc-Symposium-2015-3-2015-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Psyc-Symposium-2015-3-2015-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Psyc-Symposium-2015-3-2015.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The event commenced with opening remarks from Chairman of Psychiatry Dr. Seeth Vivek and a warm welcome from Jamaica Hospital CEO and President, Mr. Bruce Flanz. An impressive roster of speakers later followed which included Sarita Dhuper M.D. Director of Pediatric Cardiology at Brookdale Hospital and Founder of the Live Light, Live Right Obesity program, as well as Bertrand Winsberg M.D.\u00a0 Child Psychiatrist for the Division of Metabolic Disorders Essex County Hospital and our own Madhu Rajanna M.D.<\/p>\n<p>The speakers discussed several subjects such as:\u00a0 the emerging concepts in childhood obesity, the psychological consequences of childhood obesity and anti psychotics and weight gain in children. Presentations were followed \u00a0by a dynamic question and answer session facilitated by Dr. Kamalendra Sen, Jamaica Hospital Child Psychiatrist.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, the event was a great success; it left many enthralled and looking forward to next year\u2019s symposium.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For more hospital events, highlights, health and \u00a0fitness tips,visit us on\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/jamaicahospital\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook.com\/JamaicaHospital<\/a>\u00a0 or<a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/flushinghospital\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Facebook.com\/Flushing Hospital\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>and follow us on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JamaicaHospital\" target=\"_blank\">@JamaicaHospital <\/a>or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FHMC_NYC\" target=\"_blank\">@FHMC_NYC<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ShareThe Jamaica Hospital Medical Center Psychiatry Department\u2019s annual child and adolescent symposium has become one of the most highly anticipated events in the Queens medical community. This year marked the seventh anniversary of the popular program and over 100 people &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/jamaica-hospitals-department-of-psychiatry-hosts-one-of-queens-most-successful-psychiatric-symposiums\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2334"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2340,"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334\/revisions\/2340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}