About this episode

Dr. Thida Thant discusses the impact of cannabis on psychiatric practice and education.

Guest: Dr. Thida Thant is a consultation-liaison psychiatrist and associate professor in the University of Colorado Department of Psychiatry where she is the director of the CL psychiatry service, the Psychiatric Consultation for the Medically Complex clinic, the Easy Consultation psychiatry access program and Program Director of the CL Psychiatry Fellowship. She completed undergrad at the University of Texas at Austin, attended medical school at the University of Texas Medical School in Houston and completed her general adult psychiatry residency and CL fellowship at the University of Colorado. Her academic interests include marijuana and its impact on psychiatric practice, cannabis in medical education and comprehensivepsychiatric care for medically and neurologically complex patients. She has written about cannabis and psychiatric care in books such as Marijuana and Mental Health, Cannabis in Medicine and Cannabis in Psychiatric Practice and has published an AAMC MedEdPortal curriculum entitled "What You Need to Know About Cannabis: An Evidence-Based Crash Course for Mental Health Trainees." Host: Anish Dhamija, MD, MS is Board-Certified in both Psychiatry and Family…

People in this episode

Host: Anish Dhamija, MD, MS

Guest: Dr. Thida Thant

Topics covered

• cannabis
• psychiatry
• mental health
• medical education
• psychiatric care

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: University of Colorado Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas at Austin, University of Texas Medical School in Houston, AAMC MedEdPortal

Books & works: Marijuana and Mental Health, Cannabis in Medicine, Cannabis in Psychiatric Practice

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