Registration is open for OPPA's 2024 Fall Conference!

You won't want to miss this opportunity to hear an exciting line-up of speakers covering topics ranging from the "Psychiatric Aspects of Hypermobility Spectrum Disorders" to "Neuroscience of Making and Listening to Music" and a myriad of content in between.

View the full agenda and register today!

National news has you feeling anxious? Join the club.

“We don’t really talk about ‘community anxiety,’” said Dr. Gen Tanaka, associate professor of psychiatry at Oregon Health & Science University’s School of Medicine, and president of the Oregon Psychiatric Physicians Association. “But ‘shared trauma’ is real. And we share a lot right now.”

Learn more from the Portland Tribune.

'Brain and the mind are just as important': Doctors say there's a connection between your physical and mental health

"They are interdependent and increasingly over the past several years there's been an appreciation that the head is actually connected to the body, and that the brain and the mind are just as important as any other organ system," said Regence Executive Medical Director of Behavioral Health, Dr. Mike Franz.

Learn more from KGW8.

Since 1966, the Oregon Psychiatric Physicians Association has served as the organization for medical doctors in Oregon specializing in the treatment of mental disorders.

OPPA educates the public on mental health issues, advocates on behalf of members and their patients at the State Legislature, provides quality continuing medical education programs, and serves as a resource to mental health professionals.

OPPA is a district branch of the American Psychiatric Association. OPPA is also affiliated with the Oregon Psychiatrists Political Action Committee.

Oregon's leading organization for medical doctors

specializing in psychiatry