CME & Other Events
MAPP holds an Annual general membership meetings and full-day CME event in the Spring and/or Fall of each year. The CME session is coordinated with MAPP programs such as postpartum depression and consultation projects.
The continued commitment of MAPP is to make the annual conference interesting for both primary care physicians, psychiatrists and other clinicians with an interest in mental health.
Sexual Health in Psychiatric & Medical Practice
October 8-9, 2020, Hilton Garden Inn, 5 Park Street, Freeport, ME
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2020
6:30 p.m. Annual Members Meeting
7:00 p.m. Annual MAPP Members Meeting
Maintaining a Healthy & Happy Sexual Relationship in Long-Term Monogamy
Aline Zoldbrod, Ph.D.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2020
8:00 a.m. Welcome & Introductions
8:30 a.m. Medical Approaches to Male and Female Sexual Dysfunction – Graham VerLee, MD
9:30 a.m. What Does the Pelvic Floor Have to do with Sex? (Hint: More than you can imagine!) – Susan Ramsey, PT, MA
10:30 a.m. Break with Exhibitors
11:00 a.m. Sex after Trauma: Working with Survivors and their Partners – Aline Zolbrod, Ph.D.
12:00 p.m. Lunch
1:00 p.m. Granny’s Got her Groove on: The Broad View for LGBT and “S” – Marilyn R. Gugliucci, MA, Ph.D.
2:00 p.m. Exploring Sexuality on Social Media, the Internet and Pornography (Part I) – Erin L. Belfort, MD, DFAACAP
3:00 p.m. Break
3:15 p.m. Exploring Sexuality on Social Media, the Internet and Pornography (Part II) – Amy M. Mayhew, MD, MPH
4:15 p.m. Program Concludes
Distinguished Presenters
Aline Zoldbrod, Ph.D.
Aline Zoldbrod, Ph.D. is an American psychologist and author who is an expert in sexuality, and a lecturer and workshop leader. She is the author of three well-regarded, commercially published books about sexuality and relationships. Her book, SexSmart: How Your Childhood Shaped Your Sexual Life and What to Do About It has been translated
into Spanish, Turkish and Polish and won Foreword Magazine’s award for being one of the top three self-help books published that year (1998) She also authored Men, Women and Infertility: Intervention and Treatment Strategies (1993) and co-authored Sex Talk: Uncensored Exercises for Exploring What Really Turns You On. She has published articles in peer reviewed journals and has contributed chapters on sexuality to medical textbooks. Creator of the interpersonal theory of sexual development, The Milestones of Sexual Development, Dr. Zoldbrod elucidates the many sexual and non-sexual developmental events which determine whether a person will be able to experience deep emotional and sexual connection and pleasure with the same person. She has conducted seminars, workshops, and been keynote speaker at conferences throughout the US, Canada, New Zealand and Australia for the past 27 years. She blogs at NewsMax.com on sexuality and relationships, and her website, www.SexSmart.com is a resource for patients and clinicians. She is in private practice in the Boston area, where she sees individuals and couples.
Graham VerLee, MD
Graham VerLee, MD joined Maine Medical Partners Urology in 2011, and has specialized in the treatment of benign men’s health conditions including BPH, 
erectile dysfunction, urethral stricture disease, and male factor infertility. He completed his medical training at the University of Vermont, his surgical internship at the University of Massachusetts, and his urology residency at the University of Illinois. He has served several years as Scientific Program Chair and then co-chair for the Maine Urological Association’s Annual Winter Meeting.
Susan Ramsey, PT, MA
Susan Ramsey, PT, MA 
is a pelvic floor rehab therapist, educator , consultant and workshop facilitator. She has spent over 20 years advocating for patients with pelvic floor issues. She started the first physical therapy private practices in Maine in 2002 devoted solely to women, men and children with pelvic floor dysfunction. Her clinical subspecialty is sexual medicine and pelvic pain in women and men. Susan was an Assistant Professor of Physical Therapy for over 10 years at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia and Harcum College in Bryn Mawr Pennsylvania.
She collaborates with sex therapists, psychologists, physicians and other health care professionals throughout New England to promote quality sexual function for all of her clients.
Marilyn R. Gugliucci, MA, Ph.D.
Dr. Marilyn R. Gugliucci is a Professor and the Director for Geriatrics Education and Research, as well as 
the Director of U-ExCEL (UNE~Exercise and Conditioning for Easier Living) Fitness/Wellness Program for older adults within the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine Division of Geriatrics. Her “Learning by Living” research projects, UNECOM signature programs, advances medical and health professions students’ learning through the application of ethnographic/ autobiographic immersion research methods. Learning by Living: Nursing Home Immersion involves “admitting” medical students into nursing homes to live the life of an elder resident for 10-14 days complete with a diagnosis and standard procedures of care. The Learning by Living: 48 Hour Hospice Home research immerses students into an 18 bed in-patient hospice home to work with an interprofessional team in providing patient care, family support, and post mortem care. She also conducts research on older adult function, falls, and proprioception.
Erin Belfort, MD
University of Vermont, residency in general psychiatry at the Harvard Longwood Psychiatry Residency Training Program, and Child & Adolescent Psychiatry fellowship training at Cambridge Hospital/Harvard Medical School. She is currently the fellowship training director for Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. Her academic interests include the risks and benefits of social media use for adolescents and she is actively involved with the media committee at the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP). Other clinical interests include working with gender expansive youth and their families and Family Therapy teaching and training.
Amy Mayhew, MD, MPH
Amy Mayhew, MD, MPH, has joined the Department of Psychiatry at Maine Medical Center, Division of Child & 
Adolescent Psychiatry. Dr. Mayhew will assume physician leadership for the Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Division’s outpatient clinic at 66 Bramhall Street.
Dr. Mayhew completed her Master’s Degree in Public Health from Tulane University in New Orleans, LA. She was a Peace Corps volunteer in Nepal. She earned her medical degree from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry in Rochester NY. She completed a residency in Psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston TX, then a fellowship in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry from Cambridge Health Alliance in Cambridge, MA. She is Board certified in both Psychiatry and Child & Adolescent Psychiatry.
Dr. Mayhew comes to MMC from Cambridge Health Alliance in Massachusetts where she was Medical Director of the Psychiatry Access Program. She has participated in funded research, currently on a SAMHSA-supported project for integrated models of pediatric psychiatry. She is also a dedicated educator, teaching and supervising students and residents via a teaching appointment at Harvard Medical School. Here at MMC, Dr. Mayhew will teach and supervise TUSM medical students as well as residents and fellows in Psychiatry and Child Psychiatry.
Special Thanks!
This program would not be possible without the generous support from Maine’s Department of Health and Human Services through a grant to MAPP’s Consultation Project.
To learn more about the Consultation Project, CLICK HERE.
