President
American Association for Community Psychiatry
Iowa City, Iowa
Michael Flaum, MD, is Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine. He completed undergraduate, medical school and residency training in his home state of New York, and came to Iowa for a post-doctoral fellowship in schizophrenia research in the late 1980’s, where he remained on the full-time faculty for three decades until transitioning to emeritus in 2018. Dr. Flaum is the author or co-author of more than 100 publications (mostly reflecting his collaborative clinical research in schizophrenia in the 1990’s). In 1999, he assumed the directorship of the Iowa Consortium for Mental Health, whose mission was to bring the academic resources of Iowa’s Universities to benefit the state’s public mental health system. His work since then has focused on efforts to optimize the quality, effectiveness and access to psychiatric services within publicly-funded settings in a recovery-oriented manner. He is the current president of the American Association for Community Psychiatry, through which he has been actively involved in implementation of the LOCUS. He is also an active member of the Group for Advancement of Psychiatry, with a current focus on expanding crisis services, and the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers, working to promote the use of MI within psychiatric settings as a core communication style and “way of being”.
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Wednesday, April 13, 2022
10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
