Staying Grounded: Fostering Humility in Psychiatry Practice and Training

Sponsored by the Alden Memorial Lecture Dr. Brenner is Professor of Psychiatry, Distinguished Teaching Professor, Director of Adult Psychiatry Residency Training, and Vice Chair for Education in Psychiatry. He is a graduate of Emory University, Magna Cum Laude in Philosophy. He attended Harvard Medical School and then completed his psychiatry residency at McLean Hospital. Dr. Brenner's clinical focus is in the treatment of anxiety, depression, trauma, and personality disorders with a combination of psychoanalytic psychotherapy and psychopharmacology. His recent publications include "Is it time to rethink psychiatry residency training? Training general psychiatrists to be general psychiatrists" and "Staying grounded: Humility as an aim in psychiatry education and practice", both published in Academic Psychiatry. Dr. Brenner previously served as the President of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training (AADPRT). Among his educational honors, he has been elected to the University of Texas Academy of Health Science Educators, and he received the University of Texas Regents' Outstanding Teacher Award and the Association for Academic Psychiatry's Roberts Award for Inspirational Mentorship. A graduate of the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute, Dr. Brenner is on the faculty of the Dallas Psychoanalytic Center. Dr. Brenner is Editor-in-Chief for the journal Academic Psychiatry and serves on the Psychiatry Review Committee at the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME).