May 18, 2021 - 4-5 pm

Dr. Nicole Gress - Mental Health and the Hormone Component | Dr. Jyoti Randhawa - Impact of Stress During Pregnancy and After

This webinar will address the rising anxiety pregnant patients experience in addition to worry about how they will be able to handle a new baby and manage their anxieties. The fear of the unknown among all of these patients has been much more evident overall.

June 17, 2021 - 2-3 pm

Dr. Nutan Vaidya - Resilience During/Post Pandemic | Dr. Jyoti Randhawa - Self-Care During COVID

This webinar will address how to assist people to handle the new normal during and post pandemic including what this will look like and how we will be able to get back on track.

July 16, 2021 - 2-3 pm

Dr. Miral Amin - Mental Health Care of Patients with Breast Cancer | Dr. Jyoti Randhawa - How to Access Capacity to Make Decisions

This webinar will address how to be mindful of and effectively respond to the unique mental health needs of patients who have received a breast cancer diagnosis.

September 17, 2021 - 3-4 pm - CANCELED

Practicing Self-Care Physically and Mentally Especially During COVID | Dr. Jyoti Randhawa - Impact of COVID Vaccine on Mental Health

This webinar will discuss the importance of both physical and mental self-care practices and the positive impacts that the COVID-19 vaccine is having on the mental health of our community.

October 7, 2021 - 3-4 pm

Dr. Mykela Loury - Mental Health Awareness in the Community | Dr. Jyoti Randhawa - 411 Mental Health in Urban Communities

This webinar will address how to help people who are reluctant to admit they may be having issues with their mental health and will instead try and mask their symptoms in order to not talk about what’s really going on with them.

This free webinar series is sponsored by Maine Township's MaineStay Youth & Family Services and Silver Oaks Behavioral Hospital. Each webinar is appropriate for community members and professionals and includes 1 free CEU for social workers, professional counselors, marriage and family therapists, psychologists, and nurses. Advance registration is required. You will be able to join the webinar online or by phone. Please be sure to enter your email address correctly on the registration page as you will receive a link via email with instructions on how to access the webinar.

Presenter Bios

Dr. Jyoti Randhawa - Chief Medical Officer

Dr. Randhawa completed her General Adult Psychiatry training at Michigan State University and a Child and Adolescent Psychiatry fellowship at the University of Chicago. She has actively practiced in the outpatient and inpatient clinical setting within urban, suburban, VA and military communities.

Dr. Nicole Gress - OBGYN Partners in Obstetrics and Women’s Health

Nicole Gress, M.D. was born and raised in the New Lenox area and is so happy to be practicing at Silver Cross Hospital. She graduated from Lincoln-Way High School and did her undergraduate studies at Knox College. She then moved to Chicago for medical school at Rush University and residency in Ob/GYN at Illinois Masonic Medical Center.

Dr. Nutan Vaidya - Psychiatrist

Professor & Discipline Chair of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences; Senior Associate Dean for Academic Learning Environment; Clinical Sciences, Psychiatry & Behavioral Science, Neurology. As a lifelong academician and administrator, Dr. Vaidya has spent a considerable amount of time recognizing and cultivating resident and faculty members’ talents and enhancing their teaching and academic skills.

Dr. Miral Amin - Cancer Treatment Center of America/Breast Oncology Surgeon

Dr. Miral Amin, MD, FACS earned a medical degree from Pramukh Swami Medical College in Gujarat, India, before completing a residency in general surgery from North Oakland Medical Center and St. Joseph Mercy Oakland. While at St. Joseph Mercy Oakland, Dr. Amin was Chief Resident of general surgery during her final year.

Dr. Mykela Loury - Family Medicine UIC

Dr. Mykela Loury has always been an agent for health care justice and social change. Since practicing medicine, she has concentrated on caring for underserved and underinsured populations. As a family medicine physician, she served as Site Medical Director at the University of Illinois at Chicago Cicero location.