2026 Risk Avoidance & Risk Management Conference is March 21st!  Register today!

The Massachusetts Psychiatric Society (MPS) will host its annual Risk Avoidance & Risk Management Conference on Saturday, March 21, 2026, from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

The MPS is pleased to announce its virtual annual risk management conference with its successful record spanning decades. The conference focuses on actual issues faced by practicing psychiatrists. The conference aims to increase the understanding of various roles of psychiatrists interfacing with the law and regulatory agencies and to foster appreciation of the challenges of psychiatrists in court. Each year experts review timely and relevant risk management issues. We utilize several didactic lectures with significant time for questions raised by conference attendees to foster learning.

This year, topics addressed will include: Dr. Thomas Gutheil reviewing major issues relevant to general risk management and fielding participant risk management questions; Dr. Nikhil Mathews will discuss violence risk assessment and management in the psychiatric patient; Dr. Rohn Friedman will discuss implications of the American Law Institute’s 2024 Restatement of Torts for medical malpractice and general psychiatric practice; President Jhilam Biswas will provide guidance on issues facing our field in 2026 due to regulatory, economic, and political circumstances; Dr. Matthew Lahaie will discuss privacy, privilege and HIPAA as it pertains to psychiatric practice; Dr. Christopher Myers will discuss the forensic and correction mental health system of the state and issues related to working with judicially and correctional system involved patients; Dr. Margarita Abi Zeid Daou will discuss vicarious trauma for clinicians and the importance of self-care; and Dr. Samia Osman will review an approach to collaborative safety planning for the suicidal and self-injurious patient; finally, Dr. Douglas Brennan will discuss practical firearm safety for the mental health professional. Please consider joining us for this tremendous line up of speakers while fulfilling your risk management credit requirement for licensure.

$175   MPS/APA/MMS members
$15   Residents/Fellows/Students
$225  Non-members
$0 Medical Students

Click Here to view the detailed program brochure and register now! If you have any questions, please contact Debbie Brennan at (781) 237-8100, ext. 2.

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