David Mintz, M.D., is a graduate of the University of Miami School of Medicine and the Cambridge Hospital/Austen Riggs Center Combined Residency Program.  He completed a Fellowship in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy at the Austen Riggs Center, where he remained on staff as Treatment Team Leader, Director of Psychiatric Education and Associate Director of Training in the Fellowship in Psychotherapy and Adult Psychoanalysis Treatment Team Leader. At the Austen Riggs Center, Dr Mintz is engaged in intensive psychoanalytic psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy with complex, multiply co-morbid, and “treatment-resistant” patients.  Over the last 2 decades, he has devoted much of his attention to elucidating Psychodynamic Psychopharmacology as a technical approach for working with pharmacologic treatment resistance, and he has written and presented widely on the subject.  His book Psychodynamic Psychopharmacology: Caring for the Treatment-Resistant Patient, and over a dozen other papers, explores these principles.  Dr. Mintz’s other academic interests include psychodynamic aspects of medical education and developmental processes involved in becoming a psychiatrist.  He is the recent past leader of the Psychotherapy Caucus of the American Psychiatric Association, and recent past trustee of the American Academy of Psychodynamic Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis. 

Dr. Esther Dechant was graduated from Harvard Medical School and completed her adult psychiatry residency from The Cambridge Hospital and her child and adolescent fellowship at MGH/McLean.  She is the medical director of the Klarman Eating Disorders Unit at McLean Hospital and an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.  

Richard F. Summers, MD is Senior Residency Advisor and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania.  He served as Co-Director of Residency Training at Penn from 1998 to 2017. 

Dr. Summers is a nationally recognized educator, author and clinician. He is Treasurer of  the American Psychiatric Association and a Past President of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatry Residency Training (AADPRT).  He chaired the APA Committee on Psychiatrist Wellbeing and Burnout from its inception until 2020.  He is on the Board of the American Psychiatric Association Foundation and the Editorial Board of American Psychiatric Association Publishing.  He is the recipient of many institutional and national teaching awards.  

Dr. Summers’ work includes numerous articles on physician wellbeing, psychodynamic therapy, therapeutic alliance, positive psychology and psychiatry residency training.  His books include Psychodynamic Therapy: A Guide to Evidence Based Practice and Practicing Psychodynamic Therapy: A Casebook, co-authored with Jacques Barber, and two co-edited volumes, Positive Psychiatry: A Casebook and Combating Burnout: A Guide for Psychiatrists. 

Donna Vanderpool is responsible for the development and implementation of risk management services for PRMS, manager of a psychiatric malpractice insurance program. Ms. Vanderpool has developed expertise in the areas of telepsychiatry, HIPAA, and forensic practice, and has consulted, published, and spoken nationally on these and other healthcare law and risk management topics. 

Dr. Omair Abbasi is a fellow of the Academy of Consultation Liaison Psychiatry in addition to being a fellow of the American Psychiatric Society.  He holds board certifications in both psychiatry and psychosomatic medicine.  Dr. Abbasi completed his psychiatry residency training at Creighton University - University of Nebraska Health Alliance after which he continued on to complete a fellowship in psychosomatic medicine (now known as consultation-liaison psychiatry) at the University of Pennsylvania.   Dr. Abbasi also completed an additional year of training in the Adult Psychoanalytic Training Program at the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia.   Dr. Abbasi has worked as a C/L psychiatrist in several academic settings including as an inpatient C/L attending for Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia where he also served as the consulting psychiatrist for the Jefferson Comprehensive Epilepsy Program and the Jefferson Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery Program.  He has also dedicated his career to medical education serving as assistant clerkship director at the Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Jefferson University, the Director of Behavioral Health Education at the Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Allopathic Medicine, and more recently as the Associate Program Director for the Memorial Health System Psychiatry GME Program in Hollywood, Florida. In his teaching roles he has won several local and national awards including the Nancy CA Roeske, MD Certificate of Excellence in Medical Student Education and the 2020 Early Career Development Award from the Association for Academic Psychiatry.  Dr. Abbasi has a keen interest in utilizing psychodynamic principles in psychiatry practice.