Pi Tau Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. in partnership with Southfield Public Library presents:
MENTAL HEALTH MATTERS
Anxiety/Depression, Bipolar, Schizophrenia and Alzheimer’s – Socializing the Facts for You and Your Family on April 25th from 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. in the Southfield Library Auditorium.
Admission is free. Speakers will discuss the following topics:
• Ending the Mental Health Stigma
• How Can I Help the Patient?
• Supporting the Mental Health Caregiver
• Who’s at Risk for Alzheimer’s?
Confirmed Speakers:
Kevin Fischer, NAMI Michigan

Kevin Fischer is the Executive Director of NAMI Michigan. NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, is the nation’s largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to improving the lives of persons living with serious mental illness and their families. A retired businessman, Kevin joined NAMI as a volunteer in 2011 shortly after losing is oldest son Dominique to suicide in 2010. After serving on the NAMI Michigan Board of Directors as the NAMIWalks Chairperson for two years, and as Board Vice-President for two years, Kevin accepted the role of Executive Director in April of 2014.
Kevin is the founder of The Dominique Fischer Memorial Foundation, serves on the Board of Directors for The Guidance Center and several other organizations. Quoted as saying “this is his last job; his last fight,” Kevin is dedicated to eliminating the stigma of mental illness, which he considers the leading barrier to early diagnoses and treatment.
Carmen McIntyre, M.D. Chief Medical Officer, Detroit Wayne Mental Health Authority

Carmen McIntyre, MD is the Chief Medical Officer at the Detroit Wayne Mental Health Authority. She is committed to ensuring that the Authority meets the mental health needs of those with substance use disorders, mental illness, children with serious emotional disturbance, and persons with intellectual and/or developmental disorders in Wayne County.
As Chief Medical Officer, she leads the clinical practice improvement, grants, research and training areas, striving to ensure that the clinical services delivered to over 74,000 persons a year are effective, efficient, evidence based, and consumer and community focused.
Dr. McIntyre is a Wayne State University Medical School alumnus, and completed residency and research fellowship training in Philadelphia. She has published text book chapters and research articles on schizophrenia. She has practiced in hospital settings, substance use disorder treatment, and outpatient community mental health settings in Pennsylvania, Michigan and New Zealand. She enjoys teaching and mentoring through community forums; to school and community social workers and psychologists; and as an Assistant Clinical Professor at the WSU School of Medicine.
Edna Andrews Rose, PhD., MSW, RN-BC

Dr. Rose received her graduate degrees (Ph.D. and MSW) from Clark Atlanta University, and undergraduate degree in nursing from Kennesaw University in Kennesaw Georgia. She maintains membership in both social work and nursing organizations. She holds certification by the American Nurses Association as a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse. Her most recent unpublished work; “The Disproportionately Higher Incidence of Alzheimer’s Disease in the African American (AA) Population” has catapulted her career as a speaker an educator, on the benefits of AA’s participation in research, and precursors (co morbidities) of variables which may be associated with the onset of Alzheimer’s disease. She serves as a workshop facilitator on multiple health issues, and a speaker for spiritual conferences around the Metro Detroit and Atlanta area.
Since 2008, Dr. Rose, has held the position at the University of Michigan Alzheimer’s Disease Center (MADC) as Minority Outreach Coordinator. She is a Clinical Nurse Instructor for Detroit Mercy and Eastern Michigan Universities Schools of Nursing as a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Clinician.