Integrative Approaches to ADHD
1.0 CE Hours
Intermediate
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Date & Time
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Description
This course provides a comprehensive overview of integrative approaches to managing ADHD across the lifespan. Participants will explore evidence-based strategies combining behavioral interventions, pharmacotherapy, neuromodulation, and lifestyle modifications to optimize attention, executive function, and emotional regulation. Emphasis is placed on individualized care, interdisciplinary collaboration, and translating research into practical treatment plans that address both core symptoms and associated functional impairments.
Educational Goal
The educational goal of this session is for participants to gain practical insights into creating personalized, integrative treatment plans that address both core symptoms and associated functional challenges.
Learning Objectives
Participants will be able to:
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Describe the symptoms and functional impairments associated with ADHD across the lifespan.
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Identify at least two evidence-based, integrative interventions for managing ADHD.
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Analyze strategies for interdisciplinary collaboration in developing personalized ADHD treatment plans.
Target Audience
- Addiction Professional
- Counselor
- Marriage & Family Therapist
- Nurse
- Physician
- Psychologist
- Social Worker
Presenters

Hugh Humphery, MD
Dr. Hugh Humphery is a dual board-certified child, adolescent and adult psychiatrist and a holistic practitioner who believes in every person’s ability to improve themselves. His work is characterized by compassion, collaboration, and hope. Dr. Humphery uses a whole-body approach to optimize his patients’ mental health and draws upon a variety of tools to help his patients move forward in their lives. Dr. Humphery offers integrative psychiatric care for children, adolescents, and adults at South Florida Integrative Medicine. Originally from Lima, Peru, Dr. Humphery is bilingual in Spanish and English, rendering services to his patients in both languages. He is experienced in treating a wide range of diagnoses including attention difficulties, poor memory, depression, mania, anxiety, substance use, disordered eating, and personality disorders.
After graduating in 2005 from Drexel University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Dr. Humphery entered medical residency for general psychiatry at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina. Thereafter, he was accepted to continue further subspecialty training at Duke as a fellow in child and adolescent psychiatry, completing his program in 2010. Dr. Humphery also has trained in alternative therapies including functional medicine, acupuncture, mindfulness, neurofeedback, transcranial magnetic stimulation, nutrition, and genetics.
Dr. Humphery worked with Florida International University’s (FIU) Center for Children and Families from 2010-2018, conducting research in ADHD, mood disorders, and substance use disorders. He was the Center’s Medical Director from 2014-2018. Additionally, he served as Medical Director for Family Recovery Specialists, a substance abuse center in Miami, from 2012-2016. Presently, Dr. Humphery maintains his affiliation with FIU as a Voluntary Research Faculty member and periodically teaches medical and psychology students. He is a founding faculty member of the Southern Winds Hospital Psychiatry Residency Program in Miami, Florida and trains rotations of medical students and residents at his practice.
Dr. Adam D. Scioli is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and New York College of Osteopathic Medicine. He completed an internship at St. Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx, New York. He later completed his psychiatry residency training at Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia where he was chief resident for two years and was conferred the title of Distinguished Laughlin Fellow for professional achievement, dedication, and scholarship. Dr. Scioli simultaneously completed fellowship training through the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia, where his work focused on the relationship between addiction and attachment.
Dr. Scioli is board-certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and the American Osteopathic Board of Neurology and Psychiatry. Additionally, he is board-certified in addiction medicine through the American Board of Prevention Medicine and the American Osteopathic Board of Neurology and Psychiatry. Dr. Scioli is a distinguished fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He is a fellow of both the American Society of Addiction Medicine and the American Osteopathic Academy of Addiction Medicine. Additionally, he serves as president-elect on the Board of Trustees of the American Osteopathic Academy of Addiction Medicine (AOAAM). The mission of the AOAAM is to improve the health of individuals and families burdened with the disease of addiction. Before his current position as Chief Medical Officer and Program Director of the Addiction Medicine Fellowship, Dr. Scioli served as the corporate medical director and head of psychiatry at Caron Treatment Centers. He has worked for Caron since July 2015.
Georgette De Jesus, MD, is a double board-certified psychiatrist who has been providing integrative mental health treatment plans to children, adolescents and adults at South Florida Integrative Medicine since she joined the practice in 2016. She is well-versed in treating a wide range of mental health concerns, but particularly focuses her clinical work on ADHD, Anxiety Disorders, and Depression. Dr. De Jesus draws upon her years of training, and her clinical and research experience in psychiatry in order to deliver personalized, empathic care to her patients.
Dr. De Jesus obtained her medical degree from the University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine in 2003. Following medical school, she trained at Duke University for her residency in Psychiatry, and later completed a two-year Fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at New York University. In 2009, following completion of her professional training, Dr. De Jesus returned to San Juan, where she built a successful mental health private practice. During that time, she also served as the Associate Residency Training Director for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and the Medical Director of the Children’s Partial Hospitalization Program at the University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine.
Dr. De Jesus has conducted research on Mood Disorders, ADHD, and genetics, including a research year at the National Institutes of Mental Health’s Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program. Her past research has focused on novel treatments for depression and ADHD.
In addition to seeing patients at South Florida Integrative Medicine, Dr. De Jesus teaches at the University of Miami, where she delivers lectures to medical residents on a wide range of topics in mental health. She is an avid public speaker and enjoys delivering talks for parents, teachers, and other groups in the area.