Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, NY
Christian Bjerre Real, MD, MMCI, Clinical and Research Fellow, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
During his residency at Duke University, Dr. Bjerre Real started the Duke psychedelic journal club; won the ‘resident teaching award’; kickstarted a tablet-based patient data gathering system in the outpatient clinic; developed a psycho-oncology-based collaborative care implementation plan; and wrote a case series of ketamine use for suicidal patients in the medicine ward who experienced blunt trauma. As chief resident, he developed ‘bonding rounds’—through which chief residents can reduce the burden of call to the intern and second-year residents while helping them find their place in the program and pursue their passions.
Leveraging his informatics knowledge, he developed a Psychiatry clinical summary in the electronic health record for the consultation service—an interface through which the psycho-oncologist can see patient data in a user-friendly way to minimize the burden of charting time, enhance pattern recognition to detect diseases and create research synergisms. This has been particularly useful to point out subtleties of patient response to benzodiazepines in alcohol withdrawal, and antipsychotics in delirium.
Currently, Dr. Bjerre Real leads a multidisciplinary workgroup, joined by critical care providers and psycho-oncologists, which focuses on analyzing data from COVID-19 patients, and, in parallel, is working with the NYU psychedelic psychiatry lab to further research into psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy in terminally ill cancer patients.
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Monday, April 18, 2022
7:00 AM – 8:00 AM US CST