Psychedelic Program Series
Panel 2
Ketamine Treatment: What’s Working and What’s Missing?
Moderated by: Kaylie Tejeda DNAP, CRNA
Panelists: Melanie Malloy MD/Ph.D., Dominique Morisano Ph.D./CPsych, Gita Vaid MD
The video recording will be available on July 9th
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Ketamine treatment is currently entering a phase of popularity and increased promotion. There are many reports of significant success with ketamine in the treatment of depression, substance use issues, and trauma. But the speed of its increasing popularity seems to have left behind the discussion of risks, pitfalls, and possible negative outcomes. This panel reviewed the benefits, necessary accompanying protocols, and potentially harmful outcomes from a clinical and social perspective. Best practices for clinicians wishing to support clients receiving ketamine treatment were also reviewed.
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Our Moderator
Kaylie Tejeda, DNAP, CRNA, Psychedelic Social Justice Collective, Community Facilitator (they,them)
Dr. Kaylie Tejeda is a certified registered nurse anesthesiologist (CRNA) who was born and raised in New York and is now located on occupied Yokut and Mono territory known today as Fresno, California, where they practice and teach anesthesia and co-founded and operate a local harm reduction non-profit that centers culturally grounded psycho-spiritual support, community, and harm reduction for historically marginalized communities. They have been in the healthcare field for 10 years. They continue their education and research journey at the California Institute of Integral Studies, where they are obtaining their Ph.D. in Transpersonal Psychology and obtaining their psychedelic-assisted therapy certificate. They identify as first-generation Afro-Dominican, Queer and non-binary. Kaylie also serves as a community facilitator and moderator for the Psychedelic Social Justice Collective (PSJC) virtual community, where all are welcome to join, learn, grow and advocate. Their passions, while diverse, are predominately centered on social justice advocacy, culturally grounded praxis, accountability, ethics, equity, reciprocity, inclusion, and access in and beyond the psychedelic field. They spend most of their time thinking about how to re-write societal narratives and developing community solutions for marginalized communities that have been plagued by systemic inequities.
https://linktr.ee/accountabilityinpsychedelia
Our Panelists
Dominique Morisano, Ph.D./ CPsych (she,her)
Dr. Dominique Morisano is a licensed clinical psychologist, researcher, and adjunct professor living in Toronto, Canada. After completing a certificate in psychedelic-assisted therapies and research at the California Institute of Integral Studies (2019), she joined Field Trip Health as their Chief Psychologist (USA). She holds academic appointments at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (Collaborator Scientist), University of Toronto (Adjunct Professor), and Erasmus University Rotterdam (Visiting Scholar), where she researches personal goal-setting. She also runs a private practice in Toronto and New York (drmorisano.com), focusing on trauma and addiction. She is a lead organizer of the upcoming conference “From Research to Reality: Global Summit on Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies and Medicine” (in-person; Toronto; May 26-29, 2022), sponsored by three Canadian government-affiliated mental health organizations (CAMH, MHCC, CCSA). She is dedicated to JEDI, social justice, and the study/use of psychedelic-assisted therapies for both personal growth and addressing human suffering.
Facebook, Instagram or Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrMorisano; https://www.linkedin.com/in/drmorisano/; drmorisano.com
Gita Vaid, MD (she,her)
Dr. Gita Vaid, MD is a board-certified psychiatrist and psychoanalyst practicing ketamine-assisted psychotherapy in New York City. She is a co-founder of the Center for Natural Intelligence, a multidisciplinary laboratory dedicated to psychedelic psychotherapy innovation and clinical practice (www.cni.nyc) and a member of the Mount Sinai Psychedelic Psychotherapy Research and Trauma Center. Dr. Vaid completed her residency training at NYU Medical Center, psychoanalytic training at the Psychoanalytic Association of New York. She trained as a fellow in clinical psychopharmacology and neurophysiology at New York Medical College and completed a research fellowship at NYU Medical Center. Dr. Vaid is a MAPS-trained psychedelic psychotherapist and is on Faculty and a lead instructor at The Ketamine Training Center.
Website: www.cni.nyc
Melanie Mallory, MD/ Ph.D. (she, her)
Dr. Melanie Malloy is an Emergency Medicine trained Physician based in Brooklyn, New York, whose path to medicine has fulfilled a childhood dream. Born in Tampa to a physician mother and healthcare administrator father, Melanie loved the sciences as a youth and felt drawn to the arts and humanities, eventually earning her B.A. in Philosophy at Yale University in 2002. There, her thesis focused on transcendence, entheogens, and meditative drawing. After a year in her family’s native Haiti as Co-Director of the Kellogg community education program at Hôpital Albert Schweitzer, Melanie was ready to embark on her medical studies, which she began at Meharry Medical College in Nashville, TN. From there, she pursued an MD Ph.D. degree focused on the molecular biology of battling oxidative stress. In her studies, she learned the essential role of natural foods -many of which activated the pathways she was elucidating -in health and well-being. Melanie trained in Emergency Medicine at Kings County Hospital. She served as an attending physician at Mount Sinai Hospital, where she was known as a friendly face whose patients instantly felt comfortable in her presence. At Ember Health, she feels grateful that her career has again led to wellness, education, and helping people in their path to well-being.
Email: memetheo@gmail.com
