Cannabis and Mental Health

Speaker Thida Thant. This session will review literature regarding cannabis and it's impact on various mental health disorders. It will discuss how to consider the current state of literature in the context of your patient's clinical presentation, how to evaluate the risk/benefit in your patient and how to approach psychoeducation regarding the impact of cannabis on mental health disorders such as depression, bipolar, anxiety, sleep and psychosis.Video link: https://vimeo.com/656307666/2ed2c400f4

Speaker Details

Full Name
Thida Thant

Position
MD

Institution
University of Colorado Hospital

Bio
Dr. Thida Thant is an assistant professor and consultation-liaison (CL) psychiatrist at the University of Colorado Department of Psychiatry. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Plan II honors from 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 psychosomatic medicine fellowship at the University of Colorado. She is currently the director of the University of Colorado Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Service and the Psychiatric Consultation for the Medically Complex clinic (PCMC) in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. Her academic interests include marijuana and its impact on psychiatric practice in states with legalized marijuana, the creation and implementation of marijuana curricula in medical education, and psychiatric care for medically and neurologically complex patients. She has spoken at multiple conferences on the topics of chronic medical illness, marijuana, and consultation-liaison psychiatry, has authored book chapters about cannabis in books such as Marijuana and Mental Health and Cannabis in Medicine, and has developed and published a cannabis curriculum through AAMC's MedEdPortal titled "What You Need to Know About Cannabis: An Evidence-Based Crash Course for Mental Health Trainees."