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