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UNC - Duke

Evidence-Based Medicine Conference

on Pediatric Bipolar Disorder

May 21 & 22, 2008

The William and Ida Friday

Center for Continuing Education

Topic:  An in-depth presentation of best practices in the diagnosis and treatment of children and adolescents with bipolar disorder. 

Target audience:  UNC and Duke child psychiatry residents, general psychiatry residents, pediatric residents, and other psychiatrists, as well as psychologists, and social workers in the mental health field.


15th Annual

STEP Symposium

What's New in Schizophrenia:

Reports from the Front Lines

of Research at UNC

April 19, 2008

The William and Ida Friday

Center for Continuing Education

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23rd Annual

George Ham Symposium

for Psychiatry

April 12, 2008

The Kenan Center

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CENTER FOR WOMEN'S MOOD DISORDERS

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General Psychiatry Residency Applicant Information

The General Psychiatry Residency Program participates in the Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS).

Deadline for applications for 2008 entry was November 1, 2007.

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Grand Rounds

2007-2008 Academic Year

(Note: Presentations are listed below in

reverse chronological order.)

May 30, 2008
Richard Loewenstein, M.D.
Medical Director, The Trauma Disorders Program
Sheppard Pratt Health Systems

TOPIC: TBA

May 16, 2008
Jeff Lieberman, M.D.
Chairman, Department of Psychiatry,
College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University
Director, New York State Psychiatric Institute
Director, Lieber Center for Schizophrenia Research
Psychiatrist-in-Chief @ New York Presbyterian Hospital & Columbia University Medical Center

TOPIC: TBA

May 9, 2008

Chip Reynolds, M.D.

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

Endowed Professor of Geriatric Psychiatry

Professor of Psychiatry, Neurology &Neuroscience

Professor of Behavioral & Community Health Sciences

TOPIC:  Optimizing Treatment Outcomes in Late Life Depression

April 25, 2008

No Grand Rounds

April 18, 2008

Trey Sunderland, M.D.
TOPIC
Biomarkers - The Future of Diagnosis

in Alzheimer's Disease

April 11, 2008

No Grand Rounds

April 4, 2008

No Grand Rounds

March 28, 2008
David Pickar, M.D.
Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at John Hopkins University

TOPIC: Schizophrenia: Making a Difference

March 21 , 2008

No Grand Rounds

March 14, 2008
Jarrold Post, M.D.
Professor of Psychiatry, Political Psychology

& International Affairs
Director, Political Psychology Program

Elliott School of International Affairs
George Washington University

TOPIC: When Hatred is Bred in the Bone

The Psychocultural Foundations of

Contemporary Terrorism

February 7, 2008

No Grand Rounds

February 29, 2008
Joel Kleinman, M.D., Ph.D.
Chief, Section of Neuropathology, CBDB, GCAP, IRP, NIMH
 National Institute of Health
TOPIC:  Expression of Risk Genes in Human Brain Development, Maturation and Schizophrenia

February 15, 2008
Robert M. Post, M.D.
Professor of Psychiatry
George Washington University School of Medicine

and Pennsylvania State University
TOPIC: 
Stress, Episodes, Cocaine Alter BDNF and Exacerbate Bipolar Disorder: Implications for a New Treatment Paradigm

February 8, 2008
William S. Meyer, MSW
Associate Clinical Professor

Department of Psychiatry and Ob/GYN
Duke University Medical Center

TOPIC: 
The 'Mother' and Father of Psychoanalysis:

The Therapeutic Legacy of Sandor Ferenczi
and Sigmund Freud

January 25, 2008

321 MacNider

1:30-3:00 pm

Husseini Manji, M.D.

Director, Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program

Chief, Laboratory of Molecular Pathophysiology

and Experimental Therapeutics

NIMH

TOPIC:  Cellular Plasticity Cascades: Genes to Behavior Pathways in the Pathophysiology and Treatment of Severe Mood Disorders

January 18, 2008

321 MacNider

1:30-3:00 pm

Eric Elbogen, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry

University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill

TOPIC:  Integrating Violence Risk Assessment Research and Practice

January 11, 2008

321 MacNider

1:30-3:00 pm

Charles P. O'Brien, M.D., Ph.D.

Kenneth E. Appel Professor and Vice-Chair of Psychiatry

University of Pennsylvania

TOPIC:  A Genomic Approach to the Treatment of Alcoholism

January 4, 2008

No Grand Rounds

December 28, 2007

No Grand Rounds

December 21, 2007

No Grand Rounds

December 14, 2007

321 MacNider

1:30-3:00 pm
John Kraus, M.D., Ph.D.
Adjunct Faculty, UNC Department of Psychiatry

TOPIC:  Clinical Features of Patients with Treatment-Emergent Suicidal Behavioral Following Initiation of Antidepressant Therapy

November 30, 2007

321 MacNider

1:30-3:00 pm

Arnold J. Mandell, M.D.
Founding Chairman and Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry,
UCSD, La Jolla, CA
MacArthur Prize Fellow in Theoretical Neuroscience

TOPIC:  Bifircations and Chaos in Neuropsychopharmacology

November 23, 2007

No Grand Rounds

November 16, 2007
321 MacNider
1:30-3:00 pm
Alan Beeber, M.D.
UNC Department of Psychiatry

TOPIC:   Resistance in short-term psychotherapy:

Contributions of Habib Davanloo

November 9, 2007

321 MacNider

1:30-3:00 pm

Richard Keefe, Ph.D.
Duke University

TOPIC:   Advances in the Assessment and Treatment of

Cognition in Schizophrenia

October 26, 2007

321 MacNider

1:30-3:00 pm

Zachary N. Stowe, M.D.

Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Emory University, Atlanta, GA

TOPIC:  Maternal Mental Illness:

The First Adverse Life Event

October 12, 2007

321 MacNider

1:30-3:00 pm

Dan Blazer, M.D., Ph.D.

J.P. Gibbons Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Vice Chair for Education and Academic Affairs

Duke University Medical Center

TOPIC:  Major Depression and Its Social Origins:

Are we Poised for a New Social Psychiatry?

 

For more information about

UNC Psychiatry Grand Rounds,

contact the Psychiatry Chair's Office at

(919) 966-4738.

To learn more about

Continuing Medical Education (CME) at UNC,

please visit http://www.med.unc.edu/cme/.