Steering Committee

Chelsie Monroe

MSN, APN, PMHNP-BC
Founder
Balanced Mental Wellness

Chelsie Monroe is a board-certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner and founder of a group private practice, Balanced Mental Wellness in Littleton, Colorado where she serves as medical director. She has over 15 years of experience working in a variety of settings including inpatient, outpatient, psychiatric emergency services, forensics, community mental health, and private practice settings. She specializes in complex trauma, forensics, addiction, and severe mental illnesses, and has special interest in psychedelic assisted therapies and entrepreneurial APN roles. Chelsie is board certified in Integrative Psychiatry, and is an expert in ketamine assisted psychotherapy (KAP). She is trained as a psychotherapist and believes the relationship is the key to being an excellent clinician.

2026 Sessions

MasterClass: Presynaptic Possibilities: The Past, Present, and Future of Modulating Dopamine

As our understanding of dopamine regulation evolves, new therapeutic strategies are expanding beyond traditional postsynaptic targets. This session examines the neurobiology of presynaptic dopamine modulation across schizophrenia and bipolar I mania, reviews emerging evidence for selective muscarinic agents, and provides practical guidance for applying these developments to individualized patient care.<br><br>Supported by an educational grant from Bristol-Myers Squibb.

Speaker

Tuesday, September 15 4:45–6:15 PM
Room Great Hall D
Faculty

Christoph Correll

MD
Professor of Psychiatry
Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell

Christoph Correll is Professor of Psychiatry at The Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, New York, USA, and also Professor and Chair of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Charité University Medicine, Berlin, Germany. He completed his medical studies at the Free University of Berlin in Germany, and Dundee University Medical School in Scotland. He is board certified in general psychiatry and child and adolescent psychiatry, having completed both residencies at The Zucker Hillside Hospital, NY. Since 1997, he has been working in New York, USA, and since 2017 he is also working in Germany again.

Dr. Correll focuses on the early identification and treatment of youth and adults with severe mental illness, clinical trials, epidemiology, psychopharmacology, meta-analyses, and physical health in mental health. He has published over 1000 journal articles that have been cited more than 94.000 times, and in 05/2025, his h-index was 153, being >100 in the last 5 years alone. He has received over 40 research awards. Since 2014, the beginning of this metric, he has been listed every year by Clarivate/Web of Science as one of the “most influential scientific minds” and “top 1% cited scientists in the area of psychiatry”. Additionally, he has been holding numerous Expertscape rankings based on the number of publications and citations in the past 10 years, including in 05/2025 being ranked number one among world experts in 9 areas, including “central nervous system agents”, “psychotropic drugs“, “schizophrenia”, “schizophrenia spectrum/other psychotic disorders”, “antipsychotics”, “delayed action preparations” and “weight gain”.

Steering Committee

Chelsie Monroe

MSN, APN, PMHNP-BC
Founder
Balanced Mental Wellness

Chelsie Monroe is a board-certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner and founder of a group private practice, Balanced Mental Wellness in Littleton, Colorado where she serves as medical director. She has over 15 years of experience working in a variety of settings including inpatient, outpatient, psychiatric emergency services, forensics, community mental health, and private practice settings. She specializes in complex trauma, forensics, addiction, and severe mental illnesses, and has special interest in psychedelic assisted therapies and entrepreneurial APN roles. Chelsie is board certified in Integrative Psychiatry, and is an expert in ketamine assisted psychotherapy (KAP). She is trained as a psychotherapist and believes the relationship is the key to being an excellent clinician.

MasterClass: Trouble Beneath the Surface: Detecting and Treating Hypersomnolence in Everyday Psychiatric Practice

Hypersomnolence is frequently overlooked in psychiatric practice despite its significant impact on functioning and quality of life. This session reviews practical approaches to recognizing and differentiating hypersomnolence disorders, discusses appropriate diagnostic evaluation and referral, and examines current and emerging treatment options to support better patient outcomes.<br><br>Supported by an educational grant from Jazz Pharmaceuticals.

Speaker

Wednesday, September 16 2:45–4:15 PM
Room Great Hall B
Steering Committee

Chelsie Monroe

MSN, APN, PMHNP-BC
Founder
Balanced Mental Wellness

Chelsie Monroe is a board-certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner and founder of a group private practice, Balanced Mental Wellness in Littleton, Colorado where she serves as medical director. She has over 15 years of experience working in a variety of settings including inpatient, outpatient, psychiatric emergency services, forensics, community mental health, and private practice settings. She specializes in complex trauma, forensics, addiction, and severe mental illnesses, and has special interest in psychedelic assisted therapies and entrepreneurial APN roles. Chelsie is board certified in Integrative Psychiatry, and is an expert in ketamine assisted psychotherapy (KAP). She is trained as a psychotherapist and believes the relationship is the key to being an excellent clinician.

Faculty

David Plante

MD, PhD
Associate Professor
University of Wisconsin-Madison

David Plante, MD, PhD is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Sleep Medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he also serves as the Medical Director of the Wisconsin Institute for Sleep and Consciousness/Wisconsin Sleep and as the Program Director of the clinical sleep medicine fellowship. He completed residency in adult psychiatry at Massachusetts General/Mclean Hospital and fellowship in sleep medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital. He has served as the Chair of the ICSD-3 Text Revision Hypersomnolence Section Working Group and Chair of the Medical Advisory Board for the Hypersomnia Foundation. Dr. Plante is a clinician-scientist whose research focuses broadly on central nervous system disorders of hypersomnolence as well as the interface of sleep and neuropsychiatric disorders.

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