Michael
Oldani,
PHD, MS
Clinical Associate Professor
University at Buffalo
Dr. Oldani, a trained medical anthropologist, has studied collaborative care teams and examined the racial prescribing of psychotropics for Anglo/Aboriginal children. He has examined the impact of pharmaceutical sales and promotion on provider prescribing practices and recent research has focused on deprescribing, ethnography within interprofessional medical education, the impact of collaborative practice agreements, and the medical entrepreneurship of ketamine. He co-edited a special volume of the American Medical Association JOE on “IPE and Innovation/'23." His book, “Tales from the Script,” is forthcoming. He is a founding member of the Health Education Special Interest Group for the Society of Medical Anthropology.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Psychiatry finds itself in a curious clinical environment post-Prozac. The medical model has generated a split model of care whereby psychiatry remains one of the few solo-practitioner fields where very little collaboration occurs with other health and social care providers. There are exceptions: the VA, public health clinics, FQHCS, and hospitals. However, the majority of psychiatrists practice in a community setting, engaged in medication management in person and through telehealth - the "med-check" model of psychiatric care. This paper draws upon 2 decades of ethnographic research to…