On Thursday at noon Dr. Peter Forster, our clinical director, will be giving a presentation to the UCSF Department of Psychiatry Mood Disorder Grand Rounds on the topic of “Bipolar Depression: An Update.” He will be reviewing the recent literature on new treatment options and will summarize some of the talk findings in a future blog post.
Welcome New Staff
I’m very pleased to welcome a new clinician to Gateway Psychiatric. Kate Melino is a psychiatric and mental health nurse practitioner who is joining us as our new substance use expert. Kate received her Bachelor of Science (with honors) in nursing from the University of Toronto, and her Master of Science (Nurse Practitioner) from UCSF. Since graduating from UCSF she’s …
New Staff
I am pleased to welcome a young woman, Hershe Gesmundo to this site. She is going to be working with me on a number of administrative projects related to this site, and to the companion site – MoodSurfing.com. Hershe had this to say about herself – Hershe Gesmundo is a development practitioner who specializes in the areas of project management, …
Telehealth at Gateway Psychiatric?
We have begun to implement a new platform for telehealth at Gateway Psychiatric. We have signed a Business Associates agreement with Google, which provides a secure, HIPAA compliant, platform for online meetings of all kinds, including for counseling and telepsychiatry. Telehealth allows us to provide care for patients throughout California. For many people we will need to have only one …
Institute for Psychiatric Services
The Institute for Psychiatric Services, the American Psychiatric Association’s smaller and more collegial educational program, is coming to San Francisco next week. The meeting will be in San Francisco’s Moscone Center from Thursday through Sunday and promises to be a not to miss educational and social program for clinicians with an interest in treating major depression, bipolar, and other serious mental illnesses. …
Virtru
I am writing to update you about the security systems that we have been implementing at Gateway Psychiatric to ensure the safety of your data. As you know, the safety of data stored on the net cannot be taken for granted. I was reminded of this when I got an email from WordPress saying that hackers had published the email …
Data Security at Gateway Psychiatric Services
We have been following the stories of data lost or stolen this past year with increasing concern about the safety of the internet. As a result we spent much of the summer hard at work upgrading the level of security at Gateway. This is important work, although not terribly rewarding. Some of these changes – We no longer rely on just user …