Department of Behavioral Medicine and Psychiatry Grand Rounds

Michael Hogan, Ph.D., will discuss Making All Healthcare Suicide Safe April 4 from 1 p.m. to  2 p.m. in the Health Sciences Center G17-Hostler Auditorium.

The presentation will cover new developments in suicide prevention, emphasizing opportunities in health care settings, patterns of suicide in health care and new evidence about effective interventions—especially brief interventions that can be deployed in any health care setting. Hogan will also explore the need to align suicide prevention and Medication Assisted Treatment for opioid addiction.

Hogan spent 25 years managing the mental health systems in Connecticut, Ohio and New York and now works independently as a consultant and advisor on high-urgency mental health issues including suicide prevention. He chaired President George W. Bush’s New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, which recommended “forming a national level public-private partnership to advance…the National Strategy for Suicide Prevention” and now serves on that body: the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention’s Executive Committee. He also served as the first behavioral health field representative on the board of The Joint Commission, and on the National Mental Health Advisory Committee for the NIMH.

He co-chaired the Action Alliance’s Crisis Care and Clinical Care and Interventions Task Forces, and works nationally to advance suicide prevention in health care (Zero Suicide) which emerged from the Clinical Care effort. He says “my major professional mission—with the Zero Suicide Institute and beyond it—is to work toward a health care system where suicidal people are safe and have hope.”