C-L Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine
Health PEI
Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada
Dr. Rasimas has a Jesuit university background in biochemistry, mathematics, and philosophy. He completed the Medical Scientist Training Program at Penn State University, earning a Ph.D. in chemical biology (2002) and M.D. (2003). After Psychiatry residency training at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, he was a clinical fellow at the NIMH, training in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, Bioethics, and clinical research. Dr. Rasimas has studied psychoanalytic psychotherapy at the Minnesota Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and the Washington School of Psychiatry. J.J. served as a C - L psychiatrist for Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and remains on faculty for the Penn State College of Medicine, there. He completed the critical care-based Medical Toxicology fellowship at Penn State, obtained board certification in Addiction Medicine, and then returned to NIMH to join the Undiagnosed Diseases Program and the Intramural Research Program to oversee clinical trials in mood and anxiety disorders. He is also a Fellow of the American College of Medical Toxicology and the American College of Psychiatrists. Dr. Rasimas has a background in emergency psychiatry integrating multidisciplinary education into clinical work in toxicology and mental health. He is a Professor at Dalhousie University and the University of Minnesota, pursuing an academic medical career at the interface of psychosomatic medicine, medical toxicology, bioethics, and psychoanalysis with a primary clinical interest in the phenomenology of suicide. J.J. is currently the lead C-L and Addiction Psychiatrist for the province of Prince Edward Island, Canada.
To Die Or Live Trying: Physician Aid in Dying for Treatment-Refractory Mental Illness
Thursday, November 9, 2023
11:30 AM – 1:00 PM CST
