On this page, I am listing the talks I have already done or am scheduled to do. (For an organized list of other talks that I can offer, please see THIS LINK.)
This page will be updated as my future speaking commitments are confirmed. If you are a Member of Simple and Practical Mental Health and will be at any of these meetings, I would love to meet you! Please do come up to me and introduce yourself.
My 2025 schedule
November 27, 2025
26th Annual National Conference of the Indian Association of Private Psychiatry (ANCIAPP-2025)
Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India. Delivered via Zoom
Topic: Practical Management of Common Side Effects of Psychiatric Medications
October 18, 2025
Psychopharmacology Update: Reimagining the Science of Pharmacotherapy
Cincinnati, Ohio
Topic: Alternative Psychopharmacology: Useful and Non-Useful
October 10, 2025
University of Wisconsin-Madison: 13th Annual Update & Advances in Psychiatry Conference
Madison, Wisconsin
Topic: Deprescribing Psychiatric Medications: A Practical Guide
May 8 to 10, 2025
NEI Spring Congress
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Topics:
1. A Practical Guide to Ordering and Interpreting Kidney Function Tests
2. Panel Discussion: What Matters Most: Focusing on Symptoms and Side Effects That Most Impact the Patient
3. Meet Me at the Water Cooler: Metabolic Side Effects (with Roger McIntyre, MD)
My 2024 schedule
November 7 to 10, 2024
NEI Congress
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Topics:
1. Life Depends on the Liver: A Practical Guide to Liver Function Tests
2. It Matters To Me: Improving the Monitoring, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Tardive Dyskinesia (Co-presenting with Laxman Bahroo, MD)
April 19 to 21, 2024
NEI Synapse
Las Vegas, Nevada
Topics:
1. Adding Insult to Injury: Metabolic Issues in the Etiology and Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders (Co-presenter: Roger McIntyre, MD)
2. Biggest Mistakes in Psychopharmacology
(Co-presenters (alphabetically): Roger McIntyre, MD; Adelaide Robb, MD; Thomas Schwartz, MD)
January 17, 2024
Grand Rounds
Topic: Practical Management of Common Side Effects of Psychiatric Medications
January 5, 2024
Indian Psychiatric Society, National Young Psychiatrists Subcommittee
Case Box Series Webinar #9
Via Zoom
Topic: Risperidone: Dosing, Hyperprolactinemia, Akathisia
My 2023 schedule
October 28, 2023Medscape Psychopharmacology UPDATE
Cincinnati, Ohio
Topic: Masterclass: Harm-Avoidance Psychopharmacology — Averting and Managing Medically Unsafe Side-Effects
September 23, 2023
July 6, 2023
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Topic: A Practical Guide to Prescribing Antidepressants in the Medically Ill
May 21, 2023
Outstanding Academician Award lecture, Indo-American Psychiatric Society
San Francisco, California
Topic: ‘Simple and Practical’ Management of Common Side Effects of Psychiatric Medications
April 15, 2023
Arkansas Psychiatric Society
Virtual
Topic: Practical Management of Common Side Effects of Psychiatric Medications
March 30 and 31, 2023
NEI Synapse
Nashville, Tennessee
Topics:
1. Balancing the Scales: Antipsychotic Side Effects
2. All Shook Up: Diagnosis and Treatment of Tardive Dyskinesia
My 2022 schedule
February 26, 2022
NEI Saturday Morning Live: Moving in the Right Direction: An Update on Tardive Dyskinesia
Virtual
Topic: The First Movement: Early Recognition and Diagnosis of Tardive Dyskinesia
May 27, 2022
Oasis 2022 Psychiatry Conference (American Physician Institute)
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Topics:
1. From Swallowing the Antidepressant to Peeing it Out—A lot can go wrong…
2. Morbidity from Comorbidity—Psychiatric Medications and Other Medical Conditions
3. The Head and the Heart-Antidepressants in Cardiovascular Disease
October 15 to 16, 2022
Psychopharmacology Update: State‐of‐the‐Art
New York City, NY
Topic: High-Yield Tips for Managing Common Side Effects of Psychiatric Medications
My 2021 schedule
March 6, 2021
TEDx SUNYUpstate
Topic: Side Effects: The Neglected Side of Suffering
March 14, 2021
Psychopharmacology Update: State-of-the-Art 2021 (virtual)
Spring CME conference of the American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology (ASCP)
Topic: PsychopharMYTHology: Widely-held beliefs (about important issues) that are just not true
August 15, 2021
Keynote address: Midterm CME, Indian Psychiatric Society, East Zone (virtual)
Topic: PsychopharMYTHology: Widely-held beliefs that are just not true
October 9, 2021
Oasis Psychiatry Livestream Conference
Topic: What to do about these SCARY side effects of psychiatric medications
October 23, 2021
NEI Synapse Virtual Half-Day
Topic: What’s Shakin’? An Update on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Tardive Dyskinesia
October 29, 2021
Psych Congress
Topics:
1. The Mimics: Commonly Missed Medical Conditions That Present with Psychiatric Symptoms
2. The Baby and the Bathwater: What Pharmacogenomic Testing Can and Cannot Tell Us
November 6, 2021
NEI Congress
Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
Topic: Helping the Head without Harming the Heart: Treating Depression in Patients with Heart Disease
December 11, 2021
Medscape Psychiatry Update (Winter)
Topic: Know Your Tools! What Pharmacogenetic Testing CAN and CANNOT Tell Us
My 2020 schedule
In 2020, I was scheduled to do the following talks. The ones that were scheduled for April and May were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the ones in Fall 2020 were held virtually.
January 22 to 25, 2020
Annual National Conference of the Indian Psychiatric Society (ANCIPS), Kolkata, India
Topics:
1. Recent advances in treatment-resistant depression (CME lecture)
2. Psychopharmacology in the Medically Ill (In the workshop Place of psychotropics in the universe of pharmacology)
April 4, 2020
POSTPONED Simple and Practical Medical Education’s Live Course, New York, New York
Assessment and Management of Treatment-resistant depression (with Michael E. Thase, MD, and Joseph F. Goldberg, MD)
April 17 to 19, 2020
CANCELED NEI Synapse, Las Vegas, Nevada
April 25 to 29, 2020
CANCELED Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Topic: General Session 1585–Prevention and Management of Side Effects to Reduce Suffering, Facilitate Medication Adherence, and Improve Outcomes (with Joseph F. Goldberg, MD)
May 17 to 20, 2020
CANCELED Oasis 2020 Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Conference, Isle of Palms, South Carolina
Topics:
1. ADHD Out of the Nest: Management During College Transition
2. ADHD: Practical Management of ADHD Medication Side-Effects
September 12, 2020
Psych Congress 2020 virtual conference
Topic: Systematic Strategies for Managing Common Side Effects (Instead of Stopping or Switching the Medication)
October 8, 2020
Oasis 2020 Psychiatry virtual conference
Topics:
1. Managing common and severe adverse drug effects
2. Depression: Update on the management and treatment
3. Bipolar disorders: Treating complex cases
October 15 to 17, 2020
Annual Psychiatric Times® World CME virtual conference
Topics:
1. What Pharmacogenomic Testing Can and Cannot Tell Us: A Practical Guide
2. Major depressive disorder: Clinical conundrums and commentary
November 5 to 8, 2020
NEI Max virtual conference
Topics:
1. Innumerable drug interactions! Realistic solutions for this frustrating clinical problem
2. Grandma might fall! Identifying and managing orthostatic hypotension due to psychiatric medications
3. Food, drink, and meds: Important interactions between food, beverages, and psychiatric medications
4. Addressing the Intolerable: Practical Strategies to Mitigate Psychotropic Side Effects
5. Using rating scales to enhance clinical practice
My 2019 schedule
April 27 and 28, 2019
NEI Synapse, Asheville, North Carolina
Topics:
1. Managing Common Side Effects That Lead to Non-Adherence
2. The Mimics: Common Non-Psychiatric Conditions that May Present with Psychiatric Symptoms.
May 1, 2019
Oasis 2019 Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Conference, Isle of Palms, SC
Topics:
1. Management of Common Side Effects in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
2. Fundamentals of Direct-Pay Model
August 25, 2019
International Summit on MAOIs for Depression, Mumbai, India
Topic: Using Tranylcypromine in Difficult-to-Treat Depression: A Practical Guide
October 3 to 6, 2019
Oasis 2019 Psychiatry Conference, La Jolla, California
Topics:
1. Advanced Treatment Strategies for Bipolar Depression
2. Advanced Treatment Strategies for Bipolar Disorder: Mania and Maintenance Treatment
3. Pharmacogenomic Testing to Predict (and Reduce) Side Effects of Psychotropic Medications
November 10, 2019
NEI Congress, Colorado Springs, Colorado
Topic: Psychopharmythology: Beliefs Widely Held by Psychopharmacologists that are Actually Not True
My 2018 schedule
Sunday, March 25, 2018
American Society for Clinical Psychopharmacology’s Spring meeting Psychopharmacology Update: State-of-the-Art 2018, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Luskin Center, Los Angeles, California.
Topic: How to use pharmacogenomic tests to predict the risk of side effects
Monday, May 7, 2018
Annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, New York, New York.
Topic: Pharmacogenetic correlates of adverse effects of psychotropic medications
Wednesday, May 30, 2018
Keynote speaker. 6th Annual Psychiatry Symposium: Update on Depressive Disorders, Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Neptune, New Jersey.
Topics:
How to use pharmacogenomic testing to predict and reduce adverse effects
Practical management of common side effects of psychotropic medications
Thursday, May 31, 2018
American Society for Clinical Psychopharmacology’s annual meeting. Miami Beach, Florida.
Sunday, October 14, 2018
MASTERPSYCH 2018 Live Conference, Santa Barbara, California.
Friday, November 2, 2018
Southern California Kaiser Permanente Symposium, California.
Topics:
– The Dark Side of Psychopharmacology: Managing Common Side Effects of Psychiatric Medications
– Stop the Roller Coaster: Managing Treatment-Resistant Bipolar Disorder
November 7 – 11, 2018
NEI Congress, Orlando, Florida
Topic: How to use pharmacogenomic testing to predict and reduce side effects of psychotropic medications
I have attended several of Dr. Mago’s talks both in person and virtually. He has helped me so much in my understanding of complex concepts and my practice has improved because of it. If you have not had the opportunity to see Dr. Mago in action, I highly recommend it. Thank you for all you do. Carrie