MEETING LOCATION: The 70th Annual Convention and Scientific Program will take place at the JW Marriott Houston by the Galleria, located at 5150 Westheimer Road, Houston, TX 77056. Enjoy this newly renovated luxury hotel, situated across from the Galleria mall in Uptown Houston, and also near the Houston Zoo and Downtown Aquarium. Dine at the hotel’s onsite restaurant, Stray Horse, or the fitness center, yoga room, and rooftop pool. Explore local entertainment at the Museum of Illusions or The Escape Game. Take a short drive to one of Houston’s many delicious restaurants like JOEY Uptown, Grotto Ristorante, or Casa do Brasil. There’s no shortage of things to do in Houston!
THURSDAY – RESIDENT FELLOW MIXER
Open to all Resident Fellow members registered for the conference. Click here to RSVP.
FRIDAY – WELCOME RECEPTION
Kick off the conference alongside colleagues and friends at the Friday evening Welcome Reception, from 6:30-8:30pm in the Exhibit Hall. We will have several Sponsors/ Exhibitors in attendance, as well as Poster Presenters.
Kendra Scott Giveback Offer, benefitting the Texas Foundation for Psychiatric Education and Research.
FRIDAY – TEXAS ACADEMY OF PSYCHIATRY PROGRAM – FREE TO ALL ATTENDEES – sponsored by Teva Medical
AWARDS RECEPTION / BANQUET: Saturday evening festivities begin with a complimentary wine and cheese reception for registrants attending the Awards Banquet honoring the 2026 TSPP Award Recipients for their outstanding contributions to Psychiatry. Register early to reserve a table for your group at this memorable evening!
TSPP 2026 POSTER PRESENTATIONS
Medical Students, Residents and Fellows in Training who are members of TSPP, TSCAP, or TAP will present/display posters at the TSPP 70th Annual Convention and Scientific Program during the Friday Evening Welcome Reception and Saturday Continental Breakfast and refreshment breaks, November 6-7, at the JW Marriott.
Submission Deadline: September 15, 2026
Click here to submit an abstract.
TSPP has reserved a block of discounted rooms at a rate of $189++ at the JW Marriott Houston by the Galleria, available until October 15th or upon sellout. Click here to reserve a discounted room before the deadline.
Thursday, November 5
5:00 pm – 8:30 pm Registration
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm TSCAP Executive Committee
7:00 pm– 8:00 pm Chapter Leadership Forum Meeting
7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Resident Fellow Mixer
8:00 pm – 9:30 pm Federation Delegate Assembly Meeting
Friday, November 6
7:30 am – 8:30 pm Registration
8:00 am – 9:00 am Foundation Board of Directors Breakfast Meeting
8:30 am – 5:00 pm Committee Refreshments
9:00 am – 10:30 am COUNCIL ON LEADERSHIP MEETINGS
• Ethics Committee
• Distinguished Fellowship Committee
• Finance Committee
10:45 am – 12:15 pm COUNCIL ON SERVICE MEETINGS
• Academic Psychiatry Committee
• Children & Adolescents Committee
• Forensic Psychiatry Committee
• Public Mental Health Services Committee
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm Committee Members’ Luncheon
1:30 pm – 2:30 pm Texas Academy of Psychiatry Board of Trustees Meeting
1:30 pm – 2:30 pm Resident-Fellow Section Committee Meeting
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm COUNCIL ON EDUCATION MEETINGS
• Continuing Medical Education Committee
• Professional Practice Management Committee
2:30 pm – 3:30 pm Resident Fellow Member Section Program
2:30 pm – 3:30 pm TAP Program
3:45 pm – 5:00 pm COUNCIL ON ADVOCACY MEETING – Government Affairs Committee
4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Exhibits AND Poster Presenters Session Set Up
5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Executive Council Meeting
6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Welcome Reception with Exhibitors AND Poster Session for Meeting Registrants and Paid Guests
Saturday, November 7
7:30 am – 7:00 pm Registration
7:30 am – 4:30 pm Exhibits Open and Poster Session
7:30 am – 8:15 am Complimentary Continental Breakfast in Exhibit Hall for Meeting Registrants and Paid Guests
8:15 am – 5:50 pm SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM “Modern Psychiatry: New Technologies, New Treatments”
9:30 am – 9:40 am Refreshment Break and Door Prize Drawings with Exhibitors and Poster Session
11:10 am – 11:30 am Refreshment Break with Door Prize Drawings with Exhibitors and Poster Session
12:30 pm – 1:40 pm Federation Annual Business Meeting Lunch
3:10 pm – 3:30 pm Refreshment Break and Door Prize Drawings with Exhibitors and Poster Session
3:30 pm Exhibits and Poster Session Closes
4:30 pm – 4:40 pm Refreshment Break
7:00 pm – 7:30 pm Reception for Awards Banquet Registrants Pre-Function
7:30 pm – 10:30 pm Awards Banquet & 70th Anniversary Gala
Sunday, November 8
7:30 am – 11:30 am Registration
7:30 am – 8:45 am Complimentary Continental Breakfast for Meeting Registrants and Paid Guests
8:45 am – 11:30 am SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM “Modern Psychiatry: New Technologies, New Treatments”
10:00 am – 10:20 am Refreshment Break
November 7-8, 2026
9 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM,
with 2 of the Hours Designated for Medical Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Saturday, November 7, 2026
| 8:15 am – 8:30 am | Opening Remarks |
| 8:30 am – 9:30 am |
Artificial Intelligence and Psychiatry: From Hype to Help — Sejal Mehta, MD |
| Objectives: The learning objectives for this activity have been designed to address clinician competence. Upon conclusion of the activity participants should be able to: — Identify currently available AI tools for psychiatric documentation, diagnosis support, risk assessment, and treatment planning, and evaluate their evidence base and practical utility. — Apply federal and Texas-specific regulatory frameworks (FDA, AMA, TMA, TMB) to the responsible integration of AI in psychiatric practice. — Develop a personal framework for evaluating, adopting, and monitoring AI tools while maintaining patient safety, privacy, and therapeutic relationships. |
|
| 9:30 am – 9:40 am | Refreshment Break with Exhibitors and Poster Session |
| 9:40 am – 11:10 am |
Peptide Pharmacology / Peptides and Mental Health — Andrew Brylowski, MD |
| Objectives: The learning objectives for this activity have been designed to address clinician competence. Upon conclusion of the activity participants should be able to: — Compare the pharmacokinetic properties of peptide therapeutics and describe the implications for dosing and monitoring. — Describe the receptor signaling mechanisms of peptides with proposed neuropsychiatric relevance. — Appraise the current clinical trial evidence for peptide agents in psychiatric populations. |
|
| 11:10 am – 11:30 am | Refreshment Break with Door Prize Drawings, Exhibitors and Poster Session |
| 11:30 am – 12:30 pm | Innovations in Pharmacotherapy for Difficult-to-Treat Mood Disorders — Sanjay Mathew, MD |
|
Objectives: The learning objectives for this activity have been designed to address clinician competence. Upon conclusion of the activity participants should be able to: |
|
| 12:30 pm – 1:40 pm | Federation Annual Business Meeting Lunch |
| 1:40 pm – 3:10 pm | EMDR Beyond Trauma Reprocessing: Clinical Applications and What Sets It Apart — Jessica Klement, PhD |
| Objectives: The learning objectives for this activity have been designed to address clinician competence. Upon conclusion of the activity participants should be able to: — Identify patients who may benefit by a referral to a clinician well-versed in EMDR. — Describe the research base supporting EMDR, including key randomized controlled trials, meta- analyses, and guideline endorsements. — Describe key similarities and differences between EMDR and CBT-based approaches, including basic considerations for treatment matching and contraindications, as an introduction to informed referral decision-making. — Describe the phases of EMDR treatment based on a case example and brief demonstration |
|
| 3:10 pm – 3:30 pm | Refreshment Break with Door Prize Drawings, Exhibitors and Poster Session |
| 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | ETHICS: Considerations for Recommending Service and Emotional Support Animals — Joseph Shotwell, MD |
| Objectives: The learning objectives for this activity have been designed to address clinician competence. Upon conclusion of the activity participants should be able to: — Understand the uses for Service Animals, Emotional Support Animals. — Be cognizant of misuses of requests from patients for Emotional Support Animals. — Be well-versed in how the Americans with Disabilities Act and Fair Housing Act apply to or do not apply to Service Animals, Emotional Support animals. |
|
| 4:30 pm – 4:40 pm | Refreshment Break |
| 4:40 pm – 5:40 pm | Attention Across the Lifespan: Diagnosis and Management of ADHD in Older Adults — Ashish Sarangi, MD, DABPN |
| Objectives: The learning objectives for this activity have been designed to address clinician competence. Upon conclusion of the activity participants should be able to: — Recognize the clinical features of ADHD in older adults and differentiate them from other common neuropsychiatric conditions, including mild cognitive impairment, dementia, depression, and anxiety. — Apply evidence-based diagnostic approaches to accurately identify ADHD in geriatric patients while accounting for age-related medical and psychiatric comorbidities. — Evaluate pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic treatment strategies for ADHD in older adults to develop individualized, safe, and effective management plans. |
|
| 5:40 pm – 5:50 pm | Closing Remarks |
Sunday, November 8, 2026
| 8:45 am – 9:00 am | Opening Remarks |
| 9:00 am – 10:00 am | ETHICS Civil Forensics: Ability vs. Disability Management — Andrew Brylowski, MD |
| Objectives: The learning objectives for this activity have been designed to address clinician competence. Upon conclusion of the activity participants should be able to: — Identify strategies for managing conflict when a patient requests disability certification. — Compare the functional impairment standards and documentation requirements across major disability systems (FMLA, workers’ compensation, STD/LTD, SSDI/SSI, DBA/DOL), and explain how differing legal definitions of disability shape the psychiatric opinion. — Analyze how referral source and evaluation context influence case formulation, and apply safeguards consistent with ethics guidelines. |
|
| 10:00 am – 10:20 am | Refreshment Break |
| 10:20 am – 11:20 am | Functional Neurological Disorders — Jeff Waugh, MD |
| Objectives: The learning objectives for this activity have been designed to address clinician competence. Upon conclusion of the activity participants should be able to: — Recognize a few of the structural brain abnormalities associated with functional neurological disorder. — Appreciate the impact of stigma, in part propagated by healthcare systems, on patients with functional symptoms. — Understand the components of an FND-focused treatment team and how to tailor therapy to individual patients. |
|
| 11:20 am – 11:30 am | Closing Remarks |
CME PROGRAM GOAL / TARGET AUDIENCE This live activity has been designed in a format consisting of case study presentations, lectures and direct discussion to provide its primary target audience of Psychiatrists, as well as other specialties of medicine, with the most up-to-date, evidence-based data that can be translated into clinical practice. Information and data will address new developments in treatments and new directions in research to address the professional practice gaps of the learners and advance the physicians’ competence and effective use of targeted skills so that they may develop strategies to apply the knowledge, skills and judgement of the information presented in the educational activity into their practice. The learning objectives for this activity have been designed to address clinician competence.
NEEDS ASSESSMENT TSPP has incorporated into this CME activity the relevant educational needs concerning competence that underlie the professional practice gaps of our participants.
ACCREDITATION STATEMENT The Texas Society of Psychiatric Physicians is accredited by the Texas Medical Association to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
CREDIT STATEMENT The Texas Society of Psychiatric Physicians designates this Live Activity for a maximum of nine (9) AMA PRA Category I CreditsTM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in this activity.
ETHICS DESIGNATION STATEMENT The presentation entitled “Considerations for Recommending Service and Emotional Support Animals” has been designated by the Texas Society of Psychiatric Physicians for one (1) hour of education in medical ethics and/or professional responsibility. The presentation entitled “Civil Forensics: Ability vs. Disability Management” has been designated by the Texas Society of Psychiatric Physicians for one (1) hour of education in medical ethics and/or professional responsibility.
FACULTY AND PLANNERS DISCLOSURE POLICY The Texas Society of Psychiatric Physicians will disclose to participants the existence of any relevant financial relationships between faculty members, TSPP staff and members, who planned, authored, contributed to, and/or reviewed the content of this activity, and any commercial interest discussed in this educational activity. Disclosure will occur through written communication in the syllabus/handout material.
CANCELLATION POLICY: In the event of cancellation, a full refund will be made if written notice is received in the TSPP office by October 10, 2026, less a 25% processing charge. NO REFUNDS will be given after October 10, 2026.