2025 Conference Agenda: Access to Quality Mental Health Care

Registration and Breakfast

Introduction & Welcome

Dave Draney, DO, President, Arkansas Psychiatric Society

Arkansas Quality Care Updates

Agitation in Dementia

Prasad Padala, MD, Little Rock, AR

SAINT Program, UAMS

Amy Grooms, MD, Little Rock, AR

Break

Advocacy and Legislative Issues

Scott Smith, JD, Arkansas Medical Society

David Wroten, MBA, Arkansas Medical Society

Lunch with Continuing Conversation about the Legislative Process

Presentation of Awards: Laurence Miller Award, Resident of the Year Award

Dave Draney, DO, APS President 

Psychiatric Consultation in the Real World: Successes, Pitfalls, and Lessons Learned

Laura Sidari, MD, Ithaca, NY

Practical Info on Coding and Billing for Physicians 

and Other Mental Health Clinicians

Abeer Washington, MD

Patty Gibson, MD

Break

Arkansas Psychiatric Society Business Meeting

Dave Draney, DO, Presiding