SRS23 Schedule

Schedule at a Glance

Wednesday, April 26

8:00 AM – 8:15 AM PDT (11:00-11:15AM EDT)

Introduction to the Conference

Speakers:

• Keyne C. Law, PhD

• Megan L. Rogers, PhD

• SRS Steering Committee

8:15 AM – 8:45 AM PDT (11:15-11:45AM EDT)

Plenary Session: 

• Speaker: Lillian Polanco-Roman, PhD

8:50 AM – 9:50 AM PDT (11:50-12:50PM EDT)

Oral Presentations

Session 1: Cognitive Factors

• Cognitions Over Time: Ecological Momentary Assessments of Cognitive Dysfunction and Suicidal Ideation among College Students

  • Speaker: Abby Mandel

• Suicidal Thinking as Affect Regulation

  • Speaker: Daniel Coppersmith

• Systematic review of the link between social cognition and suicidal ideation and behavior in people with serious mental illness

  • Speaker: Emma Parrish

• From Self-Judgment to Self-Hate: Evaluating the Moderating Roles of Perceived Parental Warmth and Self-Kindness

  • Speaker: Keven Espinet-Pizarro

Session 2: Interventions

• A Randomized Controlled Trial of Cognitive Therapy for Suicide Prevention Adapted for Suicidal Older Men

  • Speaker: Kelly Green

• Qualitative Development of a Novel, Couple-Based Suicide Intervention, Treatment for Relationships & Safety Together (TR&ST)

  • Speaker: Chandra Khalifian

• THRIVE: Testing a Novel, Recovery-Oriented, Brief Intervention for Crisis Stabilization Centers

  • Speaker: Jennifer Lockman

Session 3: Sexual and Gender Diverse Health Disparities

• Perspectives from LGBTQ Youth: Associations between Risk Factors, Mattering to the Community, and Making a Suicide Plan

  • Speaker: Ryan Kamkar

• Clarifying the relationship between suicidal thoughts and behaviors among sexual and gender minorities assigned male at birth

  • Speaker: Johnny Berona

• Authenticity or Death: Gender Diverse Suicide Attempt Survivors’ Interactions with Stigma

  • Speaker: Sara Williams

• Suicide Prevention Interventions for LGBTQ+ Adults: A Scoping Review

  • Speaker: Cindy Chang

Session 4: Family, Caregivers, and Acquaintances: Risk and Recovery

• Suicide Intervention Support for Caregivers: Acceptability and Feasibility of a Family and Friend Follow-up Program

  • Speaker: Jessica Dodge

• Dyadic Process and Dynamics of Family Caregiving and Receiving in Suicide Recovery

  • Speaker: Merimee Siena

• Discussing Suicide with Family and Friends: Do Gatekeeper Trainings Affect Perceived Social Norms?

  • Speaker: Fatima Hussain

• Operationalizations of Maltreatment Severity and Frequency and Differential Associations with Youth Suicidal Ideation Statement

  • Speaker: Metzli Lombera

Session 5: Firearms

• Differences in firearm storage practices among United States military service members who have and have not disclosed suicidal thoughts or attended behavioral health sessions

  • Speaker: Michael Anestis

• Examining associations between suicidality and having carried a firearm using the Youth Risk Behavior Survey

  • Speaker: Erik Reinbergs

• The Association Between Firearm Ownership, Access, and Recent Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors

  • Speaker: Samantha Daruwala

• Do you own a firearm?: Determining who is screened for firearm access by health care providers

  • Speaker: Allison Bond

10:00 AM – 11:00 AM PDT (1:00-2:00PM EDT)

Poster Session I

11:05 AM – 12:30 PM PDT (2:00-3:30PM EDT)

Symposia/Workshops

• Session 1: Essentials of Ethical Research with Human Subjects at Risk for Suicide

  • Speakers: Jessica LaCroix, Marjan Holloway, Max Stivers, Amber Winters, Adam Walsh

• Session 2: How mathematical and computational modeling can contribute to suicide research

  • Speakers: Alexander Millner, Shirley Wang, Aliona Tsypes

• Session 3: Suicide Prevention in Corrections Settings: Screening, Assessment, Training, and Evaluation

  • Speakers: Lewis Peiper, Robert Cramer, Corbin Standley, M. Kathryn Allison, Alexandra Karydi

• Session 4: The Blueprint for Youth Suicide Prevention: Addressing Suicide Risk in Clinical and Community Settings

  • Speakers: Julie Gorzkowski, Lisa Horowitz, Christine Moutier, Maryland Pao

• Session 5: Suicidality in cancer patients and survivors: Advancing the knowledge about risk factors and preventive efforts

  • Speakers: Judith Hirschmiller, Mareike Ernst, Tamara Schwinn, Manfred Beutel

12:35 PM – 1:35 PM PDT (3:35-4:35PM EDT)

Oral Presentations

• Session 1: Capability for Suicide

  • Speakers: Speakers: Lissa Mandell, Luke Bayliss, Frances Hart, Kallisse Dent

• Session 2: Healthcare Workers

  • Speakers: Jennifer Ferrand, Yali Deng, Morica Hutchison, Samantha Weiss

• Session 3: Cross-Cultural Considerations

  • Speakers: Steven Stack, Brandon Yip, David Jack, Parvathy Ramesh

• Session 4: Lived Experience/Stigma

  • Speakers: Rebecca Helman, Taylor Rodriguez, Sara Williams, Samantha Chalker

• Session 5: Program Evaluation

  • Speakers: Darnesha Tabor, Allie Schuck, Natalie Ray, Shelby Bandel

1:40 PM – 2:25 PM PDT (4:40-5:25PM EDT)

Data Blitz Presentations I

Networking/Mentoring Sessions

• Careers in Suicide Preventions

  • Victor Armstrong

  • Robert Cramer

  • Jennifer Lockman

  • Corbin Standley

2:30 PM – 3:00 PM PDT (5:30-6:00PM EDT)

Plenary Session:

Speaker: Jessica Schleider, PhD

Thursday, April 27

8:00 AM – 8:45 AM PDT (11:00-11:45AM EDT)

AFSP-Hosted Plenary Session:

8:50 AM – 9:50 AM PDT (11:50-12:50PM EDT)

Oral Presentations

Session 1: Short-Term Risk

• Utility of ecological momentary assessments and passive sensing in predicting short-term suicidal ideation 

  • Speaker: Ewa Czyz

• A Real-Time Evaluation of Within-Person and Between-Person Risk for Suicidal Behaviors 

  • Speaker: Megan Rogers 

• The Warning Signs for Suicide Attempts Assessment (WSSA): Development and Validity

  • Speaker: Courtney Bagge 

• Isolating Causal Mechanisms Underlying Social Pain and Suicidal Behaviors: An Experimental Approach in a High-Risk Sample 

  • Speaker: Sarah Brown

Session 2: Suicide Prevention Trainings

• Implementation of Advanced Training in the Safety Planning Intervention in the Department of Veterans Affairs

  • Speaker: Gregory Brown

• Developing Metrics to Assess National Progress in Advancing Best Practices in Care Transitions for Individuals with Suicide Risk

  • Speaker: Shari Schneider 

• Don't Tell Me, Show Me: Leveraging Simulation in Training Graduate Students in Suicide-Specific Interventions

  • Speaker: Bre Banks

• Gatekeeper Training Interventions for Suicide Prevention in Multicultural Contexts

  • Speaker: Steven MacDonald Hart

Session 3: Ethnoracial Health Disparities

• Why Race Matters: An Analysis of Risk Factors, Warning Signs, and Protective Factors in Those at Risk of Suicide

  • Speaker: Victoria Orr

• Cultural Consensus Modeling to Identify Reasons for Suicide and Reasons for Living among Black Adolescents

  • Speaker: Danielle Busby

• Factors Associated with Black Youth Suicidality

  • Speaker: Wenna Xi

• Reconceptualizing cultural factors and suicide: Black women and suicidal ideation and attempts

  • Speaker: Akeem Modeste-James

Session 4: Risk Profiles

• A Latent Profile Analysis of Non-Suicidal Self-Injury and Suicide Attempts in At-Risk First-Year College Students

  • Speaker: Nadia Al-Dajani

• Longitudinal network analyses of biopsychosocial risk factors for early onset suicidal ideation

  • Speaker: Gemma Wallace

• Predicting Concurrent Self-Harm and Suicidal Ideation from Implicit, Explicit, and Sociodemographic Measures - A Comparative Machine Learning Analysis

  • Speaker: Sercan Kahveci, René Freichel

• Personality Domains Are Associated with Different Levels of Suicidality: First Steps in Personalized Suicide Interventions

  • Speaker: Martina Fruhbauerova

Session 5: Biological/Medical

• Preliminary findings from a pilot study of Brief Cognitive BehavioralTherapy for Suicide Prevention for the disability community: The Disability Suicide Prevention Intervention Research (D-SPIRE) study

  • Speaker: Lauren Khazem

• Palliative care use reduces suicide risk among Medicare enrollees with incident cancer diagnoses

  • Speaker: Molly Nowels

• Blood-based Biomarkers Associated with a Recent Suicide Attempt in Persons with Serious Mental Illness

  • Speaker: Faith Dickerson

• A Retrospective Comparison of Suicide Attempts in Patients with Ankylosing Spondylitis and Rheumatoid Arthritis

  • Speaker: Candice Do

10:00 AM – 11:00 AM PDT (1:00-2:00PM EDT)

Poster Session II

11:05 AM – 12:30 PM PDT (2:05-3:30PM EDT)

Symposia/Workshops

• Session 1: Co-occurring suicidality, nonsuicidal self-injury, and OCD: Assessment, treatment, and research considerations

  • Speakers: Morgan Browning, Rebecca Schneider, Hana Young, Elizabeth Lloyd-Richardson, Alexandra Morena

• Session 2: Programmatic Highlights from Scientific Interdisciplinarity and Collaboration Among Suicidology Researchers and Chaplains in the U.S. Military

  • Speakers: Su Yeon Lee-Tauler, Marjan Holloway, Chaplain John Miyahara, Sarah Carter, Kathryn Holloway

• Session 3: Advances in Sexual and Gender Minority Suicide Prevention Research

  • Speakers: Ryan Robertson, McKenna Tate, Sarah Victor, John Gunn III, Byron Brooks, Robert Cramer

• Session 4: Social Factors and Suicide: New Developments

  • Speakers: Ian Rockett, Anna Mueller, Silvia Sara Canetto, Steven Stack, Mark Kaplan

• Session 5: Communicating the science of suicide prevention: A call to action

  • Speakers: Allison Bond, Jessica Hamilton, Kathryn Gordon, Simone Boyd, Michael Anestis

12:35 PM – 1:20 PM PDT (3:35-4:20PM EDT)

Data Blitz Presentations II

Networking/Mentoring Sessions

• Networking/Mentoring Session 3: Building Community Partnerships for Community-Informed Research

  • Panelists:

    • Mary Cwik

    • Jessica Hamilton

    • Sherry Molock

    • Lisa Wexler

• Networking/Mentoring Session 4: Obtaining and Maintaining Research Grant Funding

  • Panelists:

    • Gregory Brown

    • David Jobes

    • Michael Nadorff

    • Linda Oshin

1:25 PM – 2:25 PM PDT (3:25-4:25PM EDT)

Oral Presentations

Session 1: Smartphone-Based Interventions

• Smartphone interventions for suicidality: A systematic review of published literature

  • Speaker: Roscoe Garner

• Ecological momentary assessment of emotion regulation as a mechanism of efficacy in Dialectical Behavior Therapy

  • Speaker: Shireen Rizvi

• Technology Assisted Coaching in Time (TACIT): A pilot trial of a fidelity coaching tool for safety planning

  • Speaker: Shane Kuhlman

• A technology-facilitated version of the ED-SAFE intervention: A pilot trial with suicidal ED patients

  • Speaker: Celine Larkin

Session 2: Suicide Risk Recognition, Treatment Linkage, and Crisis Services

• Peer Role(s) Across State 9-8-8 Mental Health Crisis Legislation: A Qualitative Study

  • Speaker: Sarah Porter

• Crisis Intercept Mapping for Community-Based Suicide Prevention: Implications for the rollout of 988

  • Speaker: Donald Harris

• Voice signal characteristics can be used to identify suicide risk

  • Speaker: Ravi Iyer

Session 3: Policy and Equity Considerations

• The politics of LGBTQ+ suicide prevention: from lip service to liveable lives

  • Speaker: Hazel Marzetti

• Conversion Therapy Bans, Suicidality, and Mental Health

  • Speaker: Benjamin Harrell

• Risk and Protective Factors of Suicidal Ideation in American Indian/Alaskan Native Emerging Adults

  • Speaker: Elyse Thulin

• Mental Health and Suicide Risk in Rural New York: Strengths and Challenges as Reported by Residents and Professionals

  • Speaker: Katharine Gallant

Session 4: Interpersonal Factors

• The impact of daily interpersonal ruptures on suicidal ideation in high-risk clinical subjects

  • Speaker: Katie Lewis

• Examining variations in interpersonal hopelessness and suicidal ideation in college students reporting past-two-week suicidal ideation

  • Speaker: Jessica Gerner

• Stress exposure and stress generation: Examining longitudinal pathways between suicidal ideation

  • Speaker: Maya Amestoy

• Caring Cards to and from Veterans: Feasibility and Acceptability of a Peer Approach to Suicide Prevention and Recovery

  • Speaker: Blaire Ehret

Session 5: Military/Veteran Populations

• Help-Seeking Behaviors Among Active-Duty United States Military Members with Suicidal Ideation

  • Speaker: Andrew Pomerville

• The Association Between Not Receiving the Purple Heart Medal and Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors Among Post-9/11 US Army Combat Veterans with a Traumatic Brain Injury.

  • Speaker: Jayna Moceri-Brooks

• Military experiences, identity, and transition as predictors of Veteran suicide risk

  • Speaker: Terra Osterberg

• We’re Going to Need a Bigger Boat: Implications of the Iceberg Model of Suicidality Evaluated in a Large Clinical Trial Cohort of Suicidal U.S. Military Personnel

  • Speaker: Amanda Kerbrat

2:30 PM – 3:00 PM PDT (5:30-6:00PM EDT)

Plenary Session: Panel Discussion on Tech-based Approaches to Suicide Prevention

Friday, April 28

8:00 AM – 8:45 AM PDT (11:00-11:45AM EDT)

Dual Panel Plenary Sessions:
Panel Discusison on Public Health Approaches to Suicide Prevention
Panel Discussion on Safety Planning 

8:50 AM – 10:15 AM PDT (11:50-1:15PM EDT)

Symposia/Workshops

• Session 1: Suicide behavior and its relationship with mental disorders. Disentangling pathophysiological mechanisms of suicide risk

  • Speakers: Alejandra Galvez-Merlin, Alejandro de la Torre-Luque, Andres Pemau, Adriana Garcia-Ramos

• Session 2: New Insights for Suicide Prevention in Schools: Findings from a Community-Engaged Project in Two School Districts

  • Speakers: Hillary Steinberg, Olivia DeCrane, Katherine Beardall, Robert Gallagher, Bernice Perscosolido, Anna Mueller

• Session 3: Calendar Year 2020 Total Force Department of the Air Force Standardized Suicide Fatality Analysis (DAF StandS)

  • Speakers: Christopher Button, Jessica LaCroix, Marjan Holloway, Erin Cobb, Anderson Rowan

• Session 4: Ethics and Safety of Self-Directed Violence Research: Benefits, Risks, and Challenges

  • Speakers: Ryan Robertson, Ryan Hill, Morgan Browning, Glenn Kiekens, Megan Rogers

• Session 5: Innovative Approaches to the Evaluation of Suicide Prevention across Service Sectors

  • Speakers: Andrew Luchner, Lisa Borntrager, Kim Gryglewicz, Marc Karver, Christine Totura

10:20 AM – 11:45 AM PDT (1:20-2:45PM EDT)

Symposia/Workshops

• Session 1: A Peer-Delivered Cognitive Behavioral Program for Military Life Transitions (Mil-iTransition) Following Medical Separation

  • Speakers: Marjan Holloway, Su Yeon Lee-Tauler, Erin Cobb, Jessica LaCroix, Adam Walsh

• Session 2: Advances and novel measurement approaches in the study of cognitive-affective predictors of suicide risk

  • Speakers: Beverlin Rosario-Williams, Adam Jaroszewski, Lily Martin, Vera Vine, Jeremy Stewart

• Session 3: Examination of current theories of suicide among internationally and socioculturally diverse populations

  • Speakers: Ashley Filion, Sarah Victor, Susan Rasmussen, Justin Baker, Robert Crame

• Session 4: Taking stock: Challenges, solutions, and a suicide research toolbox for students and early career scientists

  • Speakers: Abby Ridge-Anderson, Rokas Perskaudas, Alison Athey, David Jobes

• Session 5: Safety and Support: Facilitating Emergency Mental Health Research

  • Speakers: Jason Chen, Erica Abel, Michael Ward

11:55 AM – 12:55 PM PDT (2:55-3:55PM EDT)

Oral Presentations

Session 1: Contextual Stressors/Risk Factors

• Financial Distress and Suicide Risk among Active-Duty Service Members

  • Speaker: Jessica Welburn Paige

• Environmental stress and suicide attempts in Army soldiers and Veterans: Insights from Army STARRS Longitudinal Studies

  • Speaker: Gabriella Epshteyn

• Do suicidal deaths correlate with alcohol and drug-related deaths? A close look at deaths of despair in Washington, 2009-2020

  • Speaker: Katherine O’Connell

• The Role of Social Media Following a Youth Suicide

  • Speaker: Rebecca Mirick

Session 2: Emergency Department/Acute Care

• Opportunities and considerations for the role of acute and intensive care nurses in suicide prevention

  • Speaker: Doyanne Darnell

• Treatment of Patients Presenting With Suicidal Behavior in North American Pediatric Emergency Departments

  • Speaker: Megan Mroczkowski

• Supporting Pediatricians in Identifying and Responding to Intentional Self-Poisoning in Young People

  • Speaker: Paige Song

• RELATE: Preliminary Evaluation Outcomes of a Recovery-Oriented Crisis Transitions Program for Youth

  • Speaker: Jennifer Lockman

Session 3: Specific Populations

• Challenging the inevitability of prison suicide: ‘Complicated pains – simple responses’

  • Speaker: Alex Oaten

• Predictors of death by suicide among Medicare disability enrollees surviving medically-treated opioid overdoses

  • Speaker: Molly Nowels

• Does suicidality in veterinarians reflect trends in the general population? Trends across career stages and a test of the Interpersonal Theory of Suicide

  • Speaker: Sydney Waitz-Kudla

• The Toll of Medical Suffering: Suicide Risk, Pain, and Hopelessness in Adult Medical Inpatients

  • Speaker: Patrick Ryan

Session 4: Text and Data Mining

• Disrupt Veteran Suicide Black Box Project

  • Speaker: Randel Keith Hotle

• A computational model of social network interventions for suicide

  • Speaker: Ian Cero

• Modeling the Helpfulness of Discussions about Suicide on the Subreddit /r/SuicideWatch

  • Speaker: Andrew Switzer

• Perceived burdensomeness and thwarted belongingness in text messages of suicide attempt survivors

  • Speaker: Ilana Ladis

Session 5: Violence, Trauma, and COVID-19

• Effect of gun ownership on violence: a division-level longitudinal analysis in the USA

  • Speaker: Jacob James Rich

• School shootings that end in suicide: A descriptive analysis using the K-12 School Shooting Database

  • Speaker: Erik Reinbergs

• The global prevalence of suicide during the post-discharge period in adult survivors of unintentional trauma without traumatic brain injury: a systematic review

  • Speaker: Hassan Nassar

• The implications of the COVID-19 pandemic on attempted suicide calls for police service

  • Speaker: Sarah Al Falatah

1:00 PM – 2:25 PM PDT (4:00-5:25PM EDT)

Symposia/Workshops

• Session 1: Repetitive Negative Thinking and Control in Suicidality

  • Speakers: Swanaya Gurjar, Elizabeth Mattera, Morgan Buerke, Megan Rogers

• Session 2: Testing unique predictors of suicidal thoughts and behaviors in groups underrepresented in suicide science

  • Speakers: Amy Brausch, Natasha Drobotenko, Lauren

• Session 3: Reducing Risk and Promoting Safety: Development of Community Interventions for Suicide Risk within Military Veterans

  • Speakers: Frances Aunon, Alexis Blessing, Patricia Russell, Bryann DeBeer, Sandra Morissette

• Session 4: Shifting the Mindset on Mental Health and Help-Seeking with REACH and REACH–Spouse

  • Speakers: Olga Shechter, Olivia Ashley, Laura Neely, Kathryn Holloway

• Session 5: Neurobiology, Inflammatory Processes, and Risk for Self-Injurious Thoughts and Behaviors in Adolescence

  • Speakers: Olivia Pollak, Andrea Wiglesworth, Olga Tymofiyeva, Matthew Clayton, Bonnie Klimes-Dougan

2:30 PM – 3:00 PM PDT (5:30PM-6:00PM EDT)

Closing Session and Next Steps

• Speakers: SRS Steering Committee