2026 SCPA

Annual Conference

Conference
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Schedule
January 23-24, 2026
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Columbia, SC
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20+ CE Hours

Friday, January 23 will offer six hours of child and adolescent psychiatric topics and six hours of general psychiatry topics. Saturday, January 24 will offer six hours of general psychiatry topics, including

  • Grief
  • Parenting/Screen/Cell Phones
  • AI in Geriatric Psychiatry
  • Cultural Humility, Inclusivity, and Conflict Management
  • Maternal Mental Health
  • Sexual Health
  • Ketamine Psychotherapy
  • Stigmas
 
Speakers Include:

Ipsit V. Vahia, MD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School and Director of The Technology and Aging Lab at McLean Hospital

John Walkup, Chair, Pritzker Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health; Margaret C. Osterman Board Designated Professor in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Child and Adolescent Psychiatry), Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Neha Hudepohl, MD, who has served as Director of the Women’s Mental Health Program, Program Director of the Greenville Psychiatry residency program, and Clinical Associate Professor at the USC School of Medicine – Greenville; and faculty at Clemson University

Brittany Albright MD, MPH is a Harvard trained, board certified adult psychiatrist focusing on psychotherapeutic and psychopharmacologic treatments, including psychodynamic psychotherapy, Mentalization Based Psychotherapy, Good Psychiatric Management for Borderline Personality Disorder, and Motivational Interviewing.