DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHIATRY
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2012

January 6                 
Overview of Pediatric Psychosomatic Medicine
Maryland Pao, M.D.

Learning Objectives:

• To be able to identify 3 ways in which adult Psychosomatic Medicine (PM) differs from Pediatric PM
• To learn how normal development may be disrupted by illness at different ages
  
• To describe at least 4 different training pathways into Pediatric PM
  
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January 13                 
Social-spatial risk and protective mechanisms in urban adolescent substance use & mental health
Michael Mason, Ph.D.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand ego-centric social network risk and protective processes
  
• Understand methods for assessing social network quality
  
• Understand methods for assessing environmental risk and protection
  
  Rich Media
  Podcast

January 20                 
Legal issues for mental health care providers in medical settings
James L. Levenson, M.D.

Learning Objectives:

• To better understand confidentiality and its exceptions, under HIPAA and Virginia law.
  
• To know the difference between competency and capacity
  
• To know the difference between the legal grounds justifying involuntary medical vs. psychiatric treatment.
  
• To know when informed consent is not required for treatment.
  
  Rich Media
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January 27                 
Bipolar disorder, mood stabilizers, and suicide: What’s the connection?
Sandra Mullen, PharmD, BCPP

Learning Objectives:

• Examine the relationship of bipolar disorder and suicide compared to other psychiatric disorders
  
• Indentify the risk factors that may be associated with suicidal behavior in bipolar disorder
  
• Evaluate the benefit of mood stabilizers for bipolar disorder in patients at risk of suicide
  
  Rich Media
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February 10                 
The 3rd Annual Gayle Gwaltney Memorial
 Interacting and Understanding patients with behavioral issues
Theresa R. Searls, PMHCNS-BC, PMHNP-BC

Learning Objectives:

• The learner will understand how difficulties with executive functioning contribute to behavioral issues
  
• The learner will understand what staff behaviors contribute to behavioral issues
  
• The learner will understand what staff behaviors improve executive functioning skills
  
  Rich Media
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February 17                 
Psychological Distress Following Major Burn Injury: Nature, Prevalence
James A. Fauerbach, Ph.D.

Learning Objectives:

• Describe Major Burn Injury - Phenomena, Stressors & Function
  
• Describe Burn-Related Distress - Forms, Prevalence, Course
  
• Describe Body Image Dissatisfaction & Social Distress - Stigma, Exclusion-Stigmatization, Social Pain, Rejection Sensitivity, Maintaining Factors
  
  Rich Media
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February 24                 
A Moment on the Lips... .: Eating Behaviors in Patients with Clinically Severe Obesity
Mary Ellen Olbrisch, Ph.D., ABPP

Learning Objectives:

• Become aware of the typical dieting histories of patients with clinically severe obesity who are seeking weight loss surgery
  
• Understand what eating styles are reported by these patients, how these eating styles contribute to weight gain, and how these eating styles differ from traditionally defined eating disorders
  
• Understand the behavior changes necessary for success with weight loss surgery, the challenges to implementing these changes, and why previous dieting and weight loss experience has not adequately prepared patients with clinically severe obesity to be successful with weight loss surgery
  
• Know how to better prepare patients to begin getting ready for the lifestyle changes necessary to get ready for the successful weight loss possible with bariatric surgery
  
  Rich Media
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March 2                      
NEW TRENDS IN MEDICINE - CAN PSYCHIATRY LEAD THE LEADING EDGE?
Keyhill Sheorn, M.D.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand their immediate response of rejection to a new idea.
  
• How innovation can stem from personal experience and insight.
  
• How, as psychiatrists, we might be helpful to colleagues as they struggle to adapt to new trends in medical practice.
  
  Rich Media
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March 9           
What’s New or “Me Too”? – An Update on Psychiatric Medications
Ericka L. Breden, PharmD, BCPP, CGP, FASCP

Learning Objectives:

• Review new uses of old medications used in the treatment of psychiatric disorders.
• Discuss new dosage forms of medications used in the treatment of mental illness.
• Evaluate the role of newly approved medications in the treatment of psychiatric disorders
  
  Rich Media
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March 23                       
Neuropsychiatry of Huntington's disease
Adam Rosenblatt, M.D.

Learning Objectives:

• Be familiar with the genetics, natural history and neuropathology of Huntington's Disease
• Be able to describe the most common psychiatric syndromes in Huntington's disease
• Be familiar with pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic techniques for treating dysexecutive syndromes in Huntington's Disease
  
  Rich Media
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March 30           
Transitions from Assertive Community Treatment to Less Intensive Services
Jennifer I. Manuel, PhD, LMSW

 Learning Objectives:

• To describe existing for managing different levels of acuity and transition from ACT
• To describe characteristics of consumers discharged from ACT services
• To understand barriers and promoters of transition from ACT to less intensive services
  
  Rich Media
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April 6                                              
To be, or not to be                                
Yongyue Chen, M.D., Ph.D.
                       
Learning Objectives:

• Review clinical data of suicidality with clinical vignettes
• Review the biological, philosophical, cultural, and religious understanding of the meaning of life and death.
• Clinical application of the exploration of the meaning of life in psychotherapy practice.
  
  Rich Media
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April 27                                   
What Me Worry? The Influence of Catastrophizing on Pain and Suffering
James Wade, Ph.D.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the influence of personality factors, such as catastrophizing, on treatment response.
• Integrate knowledge of the psychological and neural mechanisms of pain to clarify the role of catastrophizing in pain processing.
• Clarify whether catastrophizing is a response that varies given a specific circumstance (state) or an enduring personality construct (trait).
  
  Rich Media
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May 4           
The impact of the Patient Protection and affordable Care Act (PPACA) on  Psychiatry, mental health providers and patient care           
Erik Petersen, M.D.
       
Learning Objectives:

• Participate will be able to better understand the origin of PPACA.
• Participate will be able to better understand the fundamentals of PPACA.
• Participate will be able to better understand the impact of PPACA on mental health care providers and patient care
  
  Rich Media
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May 11           
Exercise and Eating Pathology: Symptom and Solution
Marie L. LePage, Ph.D.

Learning Objectives:

• To better understand the role of exercise in eating disordered behavior (pathogenesis, maintenance, etc.)
• To better understand the immediate impact of exercise on body image, affect, and eating behaviors
• To introduce and describe ecological momentary assessment, a novel research methodology
  
  Rich Media
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September 14           
Recent Advances in the Genetic Epidemiology of Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorders                 
Kenneth S. Kendler, M.D.

Learning Objectives:

• To understand the genetic and environmental contributions to the structure of common psychiatric disorders.
• To understand recent developments looking at the genetic structure of individual DSM criteria for major depression and alcohol dependence and in particular evidence that they do not reflect a single dimension of liability.
• To understand how epidemiological data can be used to clarify the important effects of social factors on the risk for drug abuse.
  
  Rich Media
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September 21           
Effect of traumatic brain injury on neuronal function
Severn "Ben" Churn, Ph.D.

Learning Objectives:

• Mechanisms of altered brain function
• Pathology of traumatic brain injury
• EEB in characterizing long-term pathology
  
  Rich Media
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September 28                       
The Biopsychosocial Model: A Familiar Stranger in Psychiatry             
Meagan Cogbill, M.D.

Learning Objectives:

• Discuss George Engel and his advancement of the biopsychosocial model.
• Outline the history of the “biopsychosocial” approach in psychiatry.
• Explore alternative perspectives of psychiatry.
  
  Rich Media
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October 5           
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR): An Evidence-Based Therapy for Trauma Victims                 
Sandra B. Barker, Ph.D., LPC, NCC

Learning Objectives:

• Participants will understand EMDR as an evidence-based treatment option for patients with trauma-based disorders
• Participants will increase their knowledge of the process of EMDR
• Participants will increase their knowledge of the research supporting EMDR efficacy.
  
  Rich Media
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October 19                       
Insights into Human Brain Function from Genomic Studies           
Mark Reimers, Ph.D.

Learning Objectives:

• To understand the ways in which studies of gene expression or epigenetics can inform us about the development and function of the human brain
• To appreciate what kinds of individual differences may be associated with epigenetic marks on specific genes or differences in their expression
• To appreciate the homeostatic mechanisms in brain development that can accommodate even extreme genomic differences.
  
  Rich Media
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October 26                       
The Power of Place: How the Environment Shapes Addiction, Treatment, and RelapseJeremy Mennis, Ph.D.
             
Learning Objectives:

• Understand theories of how place-based environmental characteristics affect behavior related to mental health and addiction.
• Understand how such theories can be analytically operationalized using geographic variables and statistical techniques.
• Understand how geospatial technologies such as global positioning systems (GPS), geographic information systems (GIS), and mobile computing platforms can be used in addiction research.

Rich Media
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November 2           
The MTBI Conundrum: Empirical Lessons and Implications for Clinical Practice
Stephen N. Macciocchi, Ph.D. ABPP

                       
Learning Objectives:

• Understand the diagnostic criteria for MTBI
• Understand the methodological factors critical for MTBI research
• Understand the current empirical findings in MTBI
• Understand clinical confounds in MTBI

Rich Media
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November 9           
Post-traumatic stress phenomena in critical illness/intensive care survivors                 
O. Joseph Bienvenu, MD, PhD               
                       
Learning Objectives:

• The prevalence of and risk factors for post-traumatic stress phenomena in critical illness/intensive care survivors
• The clinical relevance of current and future studies of in-ICU interventions, including benzodiazepine sedation practices, corticosteroid and catecholamine administration, and psychological support
• The clinical relevance of current and future studies of post-ICU interventions, including provision of ICU diaries, psychological rehabilitation, and the possible role for identification of patients at high risk for chronic PTSD symptoms

Rich Media
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November 16                       
“Mixed Depression: A new concept in mood disorders”
Nassir Ghaemi, M.D., MPH

Learning Objectives:

• To appreciate the relevance of manic symptoms during depressive episodes
• To understand how depressive episodes with manic symptoms can occur in non-bipolar disorder
• To recognize the limitations of the concept of DSM-defined major depressive disorder

Rich Media
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November 30                       
Bridging Diagnostic and Neural-Systems Domains: A Construct-Network Approach
Christopher Patrick, Ph.D.
                                 
                                               
Learning Objectives:

• Learn about quantitative measurement models for operationalizing psychopathology-related constructs of trait fear and disinhibition
• Learn about relations of psychometric measures of trait fear and disinhibition with DSM-IV diagnostic variables and physiological (including brain response) indicators
• Learn about a construct-network paradigm for bridging between diagnoses and neural systems.

Rich Media
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December 7           
Psychiatric Comorbidity in Children & Adults
John M. Pellock, MD
 
Learning Objectives:

• Appreciate the occurrence of neuropsychiatric co-morbidities associated with epilepsy
• Understand how psychiatric comorbidities influence the quality of life in persons with epilepsy
• Discuss appropriate treatment  needs of persons with epilepsy and depression

Rich Media
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December 14           
Clinical Decision Making in Advanced Illness:  Communication  and  Ethical Dimensions
Catherine M. Kelso, MD                           
                       
Learning Objectives

• Explain the key elements of communication and values present in clinical decision making in advanced illness.
• Apply techniques to improve communication in the process of clinical decision making in advanced illness.
• Explore the ethical dimensions associated with clinical decision making in advanced illness and apply this to communication techniques.

Rich Media
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