Curbside Conversations is a resource available exclusively to MPS members.  It facilitates member connections related to specific practice areas.  Members with in-depth knowledge have informal chats with other MPS members seeking information. The discussions are not formal consultations, but rather a collegial resource offered voluntarily to others in the MPS community.

Volunteer experts have been identified for the categories below.  MPS members can email mps@mdpsych.org for contact information.

• Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, including infants
• ECT/TMS
• First Episode Psychosis
• Geriatric Psychiatry
• Psychopharmacology
• Substance Use Disorders/Addiction
• Women’s Mental Health/Perinatal Psychiatry

Categories with more limited participation include:

• Bipolar, difficult to treat depression
• Catatonia/delirious mania/NMS
• Clozapine
• Community psychiatry, global mental health care
• Correctional psychiatry
• Cultural psychiatry
• Developmental Disabilities
• Eating disorders
• Ethics
• Forensic psychiatry
• Public sector system of care issues, SSI/D
• Hispanic immigrant families, parent-child separations from the Americas
• Interpersonal Neurobiology
• Korean cultural bound issues, Christianity related issues
• Neurofeedback/Biofeedback
• Neuropsychiatry
• Private Practice
• Psychotherapy
• Psychoanalysis
• Safety, risk management
• Sports psychiatry
• Transgender and non binary patients
• Young adult populations

We’re looking to expand this member benefit!  If you have special and/or expert knowledge AND are willing to be a potential resource for other members with questions, please email mps@mdpsych.org.