Wayne State University School of Medicine 

Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences

Chairman's Grand Rounds

Date: Feb. 11, 2026

Time: 1-2pm

Venue: Margherio Family Conference Center - 1st Floor

Speaker: Mahdy Nassar, DO; Staff Psychiatrist, Detroit-VAMC, Clinical Assistant Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, Wayne State University School of Medicine    

Topic: "Outpatient Psychiatry: What Patients Want, How Psychiatrists Practice, and What Reality Reflects"

Objectives: 

1.  Review the data available on patients' expectations of seeing a psychiatrist in an ambulatory clinic. 

2.  Contrast this expectation with what psychiatrists expect from patients.

3.  Critique various outpatient clinic models that are regularly used. (This will exclude group therapies, IOP, PHP, and any Interventional or hospital-based treatment.)

4.  Review factors that influence "success" in the outpatient setting.