Who Is the Psychiatrist? An Investigation of Good Psychiatric Disagreement-Dr. Hammam Yahya, MD, MBA

Dr. Hammam Yahya, MD, MBA. Born and raised in Palestine and received his medical degree from the University of Jordan in 2010. Worked afterwards with Doctors Without Borders, then joined the psychiatric residency at UNM and graduated in 2018. He is the recipient of the American Psychoanalytic Association fellowship in 2018 and has been an inpatient psychiatrist at UNM Mental Health Center since 2018. Dr. Yahya received his Masters of Business Administration from Anderson College of administration in 2023 and has been the medical director of inpatient psychiatric services since 2019. He has been the safety and quality officer of the department of psychiatry since 2023 and then became the executive medical director of adult behavioral health at UNMH in 2024. Dr. Yahya has 2 published works in Arabic, a book about depression titled “How We Get Depressed and How We Recover”, and a poetry collection titled “Edges.”. Learning Objectives: 1. Identifying at least five major dimensions in which psychiatrists differ/disagree 2. Identifying some of the factors that have contributed to psychiatric disagreement 3. Appreciating how psychiatric disagreement shaped the field and may shape it in the future Please note: CEUs, CEs, and CMEs, as well as Certificates of Completion are not available from viewing recordings. In order to be eligible for credit, trainings and presentations must be attended live. Views expressed during this training or presentation do not reflect those of the University of New Mexico. Copyright Notice All Rights Reserved. All material appearing on the University of New Mexico Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Sciences YouTube (“content”) is protected by copyright under U.S. Copyright laws and is the property the University of New Mexico Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Sciences or the party credited as the provider of the content. You may not copy, reproduce, distribute, publish, display, perform, modify, create derivative works, transmit, or in any way exploit any such content, nor may you distribute any part of this content over any network, including a local area network, sell or offer it for sale, or use such content to construct any kind of database. You may not alter or remove any copyright or other notice from copies of the content on the University of New Mexico Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Sciences YouTube. Copying or storing any content except as provided above is expressly prohibited without prior written permission of the University or the copyright holder identified in the individual content’s copyright notice. For permission to use the content on the University’s website, please contact [email protected]. Disclaimer The content contained in University of New Mexico Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Sciences YouTube is provided only for educational and informational purposes or as required by U.S. or N.M. law. The University attempts to ensure that content is accurate and obtained from reliable sources, but does not represent it to be error-free. University of New Mexico Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Sciences may add, amend or repeal any policy, procedure or regulation, and failure to timely post such changes to its website shall not be construed as a waiver of enforcement. University of New Mexico Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Sciences does not warrant that any functions on its website will be uninterrupted, that defects will be corrected, or that the website will be free from viruses or other harmful components. Any links to third party information on the University’s YouTube are provided as a courtesy and do not constitute an endorsement of those materials or the third party providing them.