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PLENARY SPEAKERS and MAJOR AWARD SPEAKERS
PLENARY SESSION I: Thursday, November 11, 2010 • 10:20–11:45 AM
“Will Mind and Body Finally Be Reunited in the Darrell G. Kirch, MD is president and CEO of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), which represents the nation's medical schools, teaching hospitals, and academic societies. A member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, Dr. Kirch is a distinguished physician, educator, and medical researcher. Prior to becoming AAMC president in 2006, Dr. Kirch served for six years as senior vice president for health affairs, dean of the college of medicine, and CEO of the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center at The Pennsylvania State University. Before joining Penn State, Dr. Kirch served as dean and senior vice president for clinical activities at the Medical College of Georgia from 1994 to 2000. In addition to these leadership roles, he also co-chaired the Liaison Committee on Medical Education, the accrediting body for U.S. medical schools, and he now serves as a member-at-large of the National Board of Medical Examiners. A psychiatrist and clinical neuroscientist by training, Dr. Kirch began his career at the National Institute of Mental Health, becoming the acting scientific director of the institute in 1993 and receiving the Outstanding Service Medal of the United States Public Health Service. A native of Denver, he earned his B.A. and M.D. degrees from the University of Colorado, which in 2002 recognized him with its Silver and Gold Alumni Award. PLENARY SESSION II: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2010 • 8:15–9:15 AM
“Teaching for Learning: Bringing Theory to Practice” Dr. Susan Lieff is an associate professor and clinician educator in the Dept of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto (UT). She is the Director of Academic Leadership Development for the Centre for Faculty Development, Faculty of Medicine at St Michael’s Hospital and the Acting Director of the Research, Innovation and Scholarship in Education (RISE) program of the Department of Psychiatry. Dr. Lieff has been practicing geriatric psychiatry at Baycrest since 1985. She completed her Masters of Education in higher education of health professionals at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education / UT in 2002 and her International Masters in Health Leadership at McGill University in 2008. She has been recognized for her excellence in teaching and innovative program development by the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine (twice), the Association of Academic Psychiatry, the American and Canadian Psychiatric Associations and the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry. Dr. Lieff’s scholarship focuses on the design and evaluation of development programs for educators and academic leaders in the health professions. She is the founding director of the award winning Education Scholars Program at the Centre for Faculty Development. She has been a faculty member for the leadership programs of the Canadian Leadership Institute in Medical Education, the Harvard Macy Institute on Leading Innovations in Health Care and Education and the Rotman School of Management, the Schulich School of Business. She also co-chaired the development of the 2009 Royal College of Physician and Surgeons' train-the-trainer program for the CanMEDs Manager role. Dr Lieff is married to Dr. Joel Raskin and they have 22-year-old fraternal twin sons. PLENARY SESSION III: Saturday, November 13, 2010 • 8:15–9:15 AM Eugene V. Beresin, MD “Integrating Mind, Body, and Environment in Psychiatric Education” Eugene V. Beresin, MD is Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He received an MA in Philosophy and MD from the University of Pennsylvania. He is Director of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Residency Training Program at Massachusetts General Hospital and McLean Hospital, and Medical Director of the MGH Child Psychiatry Outpatient Clinic. He is Director of the Elizabeth Thatcher Acampora Endowment, an outreach program to meet the needs of underserved youth and families in three community settings. Dr. Beresin is Co-Director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Mental Health and Media. Dr. Beresin served as President of the New England Council of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and President of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatry Residency Training. He served as Editor-in-Chief of the Psychiatry Residents in Training Examination (PRITE). He was elected as a Counselor-at-Large of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. He is director of the year-long required third-year course, Patient Doctor III, at Harvard Medical School that focuses on reflective practice, ethics, professionalism, and interpersonal skills as the students take their core clerkships and develop their identities as physicians. Dr. Beresin is Associate Editor and Media Editor for Academic Psychiatry, and on the Editorial Board for the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. He has won a number of local and national teaching awards, including the Parker J. Palmer “Courage to Teach” Award in 2002, given annually by the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education to ten program directors from all medical specialties. In 2004, he was awarded the American Psychiatric Association and National Institute of Mental Health Vestermark Award for Outstanding Teaching. In 2008 he was awarded the Bowis Award by the American College of Psychiatrists for outstanding service to and leadership in the College. He is an appointed member of the Academy at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Beresin has consulted to a variety of television shows including ER and Law and Order SVU. He was Consultant to the Emmy Award winning HBO children’s specials, Goodnight Moon and Other Sleepytime Tales (2000), Through a Child’s Eyes: September 11, 2001 (2003), and Classical Baby (2005). He co-produced a Parenting Resource website for abcnews.com. Dr. Beresin has published numerous papers and chapters on a variety of topics including graduate medical education, mental health and media, eating disorders, personality disorders, and child and adolescent psychiatric treatments.
RESEARCH AWARD LECTURE: Thursday, November 11, 2010 • 1:00–1:35 PM Bruce L. Rollman, MD, MPH “The Bypassing the Blues Trial: Dr. Bruce Rollman is Associate Professor of Medicine, Psychiatry, and Clinical and Translational Science at the Center for Research on Health Care, Division of General Internal Medicine, the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Rollman’s research focuses on interventions to improve the quality of care for depression and anxiety disorders in non-psychiatric settings. He has been principal investigator on several federally-funded projects including the NHLBI-funded “Bypassing the Blues” trial, the first study to examine the impact of collaborative care treatment for depression following CABG surgery (www.bypassingtheblues.pitt.edu); an NIMH-funded clinical trial entitled “Improving the Quality of Primary Care for Anxiety Disorders” and its competing renewal that also deployed telephone-delivered collaborative care; an AHRQ-funded randomized clinical trial to disseminate the AHCPR’s Depression Guideline Panel’s recommendations to primary care physicians via an ambulatory electronic medical records system; and an NIMH-funded study designed to examine the impact of depression on patients with congestive heart failure. Dr. Rollman also led the Clinical Model Technical Assistance Team for a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-funded program designed to demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of combining best practice treatment of depression with financial and non-financial incentives for changing systems of care. He is also board-certified in Internal Medicine and maintains an active clinical practice. As a result of these activities, Dr. Rollman is highly experienced with state-of-the-art techniques for dissemination of practice guidelines, the conduct of mental health services research in non-psychiatric settings, and the contemporary practice of medicine. ELEANOR & THOMAS P. HACKETT AWARD LECTURE: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2010 • 12:40–1:20 PM
“Trailblazing” Dr. Donna Stewart is the Lillian Love Chair in Women’s Health at University Health Network and the University of Toronto. She is a University Professor at University of Toronto and is appointed in the Faculty of Medicine in the Departments of Psychiatry, Obstetrics/Gynecology, Medicine, Anaesthesia, Family and Community Medicine, and Surgery. She is a Senior Scientist at Toronto General Research Institute and her research interests are in women’s health, women’s health education, women’s mental health, interpersonal violence, psychological aspects of reproductive health, psychological reaction to physical illness and international health. Dr. Stewart is the recipient of over 100 peer-reviewed scientific research grants and has published over 260 scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals and 5 books. She is an Institutional Advisory Board Member of Canadian Institutes for Health Research Institute of Gender and Health and Deputy Editor of the American Psychiatric Publishing Inc. She is a member of the Editorial Board of Canadian Medical Association Journal and 10 other medical journals. She is immediate Past President of the International Association for Women’s Mental Health. Dr. Stewart has made numerous presentations to local, provincial, federal, and international government agencies responsible for developing policy on women’s health. She has won numerous awards for research and leadership and was appointed a senior advisor in women’s health to the World Health Organization in 2007, and the Visiting Canadian Women Scientist to Japan in 2009, and Professor of Women’s Health at King Saud University in Saudi Arabia in 2009-2013. DLIN / FISCHER AWARD LECTURE: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2010 • 9:15–10:00 AM
“Comorbid Depression Is Asssociatied with an Increased Risk of Dementia Diagnosis in Patients with Diabetes: A Prospective Cohort Study” Wayne Katon, MD, FAPM is Professor of Psychiatry, Director of the Division of Health Services and Epidemiology, and Vice Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington Medical School. He is Director of a NIMH-funded National Research Service Award Primary Care-Psychiatry Fellowship that has successfully trained psychiatrists and primary care physicians for academic leadership positions. Dr. Katon is internationally renowned for his research on the prevalence of anxiety and depressive disorders in primary care, the relationship of psychiatric disorders to medically unexplained symptoms such as headache and fatigue, and the impact of depression and anxiety on patients with chronic medical illness. In recent years, his research has focused on developing innovative models of integrating mental health professionals and other allied health personnel into primary care to improve the care of patients with major depression and panic disorder. Dr. Katon has been awarded the American Academy of Family Practice Award for Excellence in Teaching in Primary Care numerous times. He also has been awarded the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine Research Award (1993) and the American Psychiatric Association Senior Scholar Health Services Research Award (1999) and the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance Gerald L. Klerman Senior Investigator Award (2003). He is Editor-in-Chief of General Hospital Psychiatry and is honored by being one of the Web of Science Highly Cited Authors. Dr. Katon has written over 400 peer-reviewed journal articles and chapters, as well as Panic Disorder in the Medical Setting, a book for primary care physicians. In addition, Dr. Katon and his research team have written a self-help book for depressed patients titled Depression: Self-Care Companion for Better Living.
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Darrell G. Kirch, MD
Susan J. Lieff, MD, MEd, FRCP(C)
Donna E. Stewart, MD, FAPM
Wayne J. Katon, MD, FAPM