Mdedge Psychcast

Show Notes Elspeth Cameron Ritchie, MD, MPH, talks with Lorenzo Norris, MD, host of the MDedge Psychcast and editor in chief of MDedge Psychiatry, about averting disruptions in psychiatric medications after short- and long-term disasters. Dr. Ritchie is a psychiatrist who works in Washington. Show Notes by Jacqueline Posada, MD, 4th-year resident in the department of psychiatry & behavioral sciences at George Washington University, Washington. Later, in the “Dr. RK” segment, Renee Kohanski, MD, discusses the potential impact of pharmacogenomics on the practice of psychiatry. Dr. Kohanski, a member of the MDedge Psychiatry Editorial Advisory Board, is a psychiatrist in private practice in Mystic, Conn.   Dr. Ritchie and disaster psychiatry She entered disaster psychiatry through her many years as a military psychiatrist. She had to think about how to plan and treat psychiatric emergencies during deployments to an austere environment, such as Somalia and Iraq. She was on active duty during Sept. 11, 2001,