The Post-Pandemic PANIC
In November 2022, Rose City presented The Post-Pandemic PANIC: Psychotherapeutic Challenges in the COVID Era. This four-hour, continuing education program updated psychologists, business leaders, and other mental health professionals on the unfolding COVID crisis and how to deal with patients affected by it. After Alan Karbelnig, PhD, ABPP, introduced speakers and outlined learning objectives, Kimberly Shriner, MD, Director of Infectious Disease and Prevention at Huntington Hospital in Pasadena talked participants through the current state of SARS COV2 mutations and infectiousness and other related viral phenomena in “The Viruses Among Us.” Afterward, psychoanalytically-trained psychologist Linda Bortell, PhD illustrated what to expect in terms of pre- and post-traumatic symptoms associated with COVID while sharing several actual case examples. Then, offering a more personal perspective, psychoanalyst Luis Nagy, PhD described his experiences while suffering from a significant COVID infection, reviewing how the illness affected his personal and professional life and highlighting the psychological implications. The day ended with a half-hour discussion period facilitated by Dr. Karbelnig. This event was hosted live on Zoom and fulfilled four (4) Continuing Education credits for licensed psychologists, marriage and family therapists (MFT), and licensed clinical social workers (LCSW) in the state of California.
Headliner: Kimberly Shriner
A native of Pasadena, Dr. Shriner attended John Muir High School, Occidental College and Case Western School of Medicine. She completed her residency in internal medicine at Huntington Hospital and received her fellowship degree in Infectious Disease from UCLA/Olive View in 1992. Since that time, she has practiced infectious disease and tropical medicine at Huntington Hospital and in the Pasadena community. Dr Shriner has been a faculty member and assistant director for the graduate medical education department at Huntington Hospital. She is the founder and director of The Phil Simon Clinic, a Huntington based outreach clinic for under served clients with HIV. She is also the founder and President of the Board of The Phil Simon Clinic Tanzania Project, a Pasadena nonprofit organization that, for the last 20 years, has been providing multidisciplinary care for the under served in Northern Tanzania. Dr. Shriner is a fellow of the American College of Physicians, Infectious Disease Society of America, HIV/MA Association and the International Travel Medicine Society. She has published in peer reviewed journals and continues her research in HIV and aging, zoonotic diseases and global health.