In this interactive session we will learn from the experts about anger and grief. We will mainly focus on personal experiences of anger and grief, their causes, manifestation, impact, consequences and treatments.

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About the speaker:
Dr. Rizwan Ali (MD, DFAPA), is currently working as a Medical Director at Pinnacle Treatment Services in Virginia. He has served as Associate Professor at Edward Via, Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine, the University of Virginia and Virginia-Tech Carilion School of Medicine for almost 25 years. He was actively teaching psychotherapy to the senior residents at the psychiatry training program at VTC School of Medicine and has co-authored books titled, ‘Becoming a Psychotherapist’ and ‘Anger Management’, both available on Amazon. He is a poet and has translated poetry of others as well. He has a keen interest in Indian Classical Music and is running an active karaoke group in Virginia for the last 25 years.

Dr. Ali is the Distinguished Fellow of American Psychiatric Association and has served at the district branch – Psychiatric Society of Virginia (PSV) – on different positions including the Chair of Public Psychiatry, Chair of the Membership Committee, Secretary, Treasurer and then as the President in 2013-2014. Now he serves on the Board of Directors as the Past-President current President of the Psychiatric Foundation of Virginia. He is a visiting faculty at Dow University, Jinnah Post Graduate Medical center and Agha Khan University for several years.

About the host:
Dr. Jawed Akbar Dars (FCPS, CHPE), is working as an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at National Institute of Child Health, Jinnah Sindh Medical University. He has been associated with the university for teaching, training and research beside patients' care for almost 8 years now.

He has been associated with Department of Psychiatry, Agha Khan University hospital as Non-Full time faculty.

At present he is serving as Provincial Secretary of Pakistan Psychiatric Society. For the last 8 years he has been running a weekly TelePsych-clinic for under served, district Umerkot.