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February 2012:

Dr. Goethe invited to present at Nevada Psychiatric Association Meeting

John W. Goethe, M.D., director of the Burlingame Center for Psychiatric Education and Research, has been invited to present at the 17th Annual Psychopharmacology Conference of the Nevada Psychiatric Association, which will be held February 15-19, 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Dr. Goethe will present:

"Current Prescribing Practices: Antipsychotic Use in Child and Adolescent Inpatients."  Goethe JW, Szarek BL, Stevens MC, Price AL

January 2012:

APA Presentations

IOL researchers will make eight presentations at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association. The meeting will take place in Philadelphia, PA from May 5-9, 2012. The titles and dates of these presentations are listed below.

Is antidepressant use in bipolar disorder associated with readmission?

Ehret M, Szarek BL, Goethe JW

Saturday, 5/5/12

1:30 PM - 3PM

Room 111B

Impaired semantic object recall from features in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.

Jamadar S, Assaf M, Pearlson GD

Saturday, 5/5/12

1:30 PM - 3PM

Room 109B

Diagnostic stability in patients with DSM-IV diagnosis of bipolar disorder.

Szarek BL, Goethe JW, Chmielecki L

Saturday, 5/5/12

3:30 PM - 5PM

Room 109B

High prevalence and significant pharmacokinetic implications of the CYP2C19 ultra-rapid allele *17 allele in psychotropic-treated patients.

Ruaño G, Gorowski K, Szarek BL, Seip R, Kocherla M, Goethe JW

Sunday, 5/6/12

2:30 PM - 4PM

Room 109B

Inpatient psychiatric care: consequences of short LOS.

Schwartz HI, Woolley SB, Goethe JW, Szarek BL

Monday, 5/7/12

9AM-10:30AM

Room 111B

Is posttraumatic stress disorder associated with increased risk of metabolic syndrome among inpatients with mood disorders?

Goethe JW, Szarek BL, Woolley SB

Monday, 5/7/12

1:30 PM - 3PM

Room 109B

Moral treatment to recovery: The Ivy League hospitals look at contemporary ethical issues in psychiatry.

Schwartz HI

Tuesday, 5/8/12

9AM - 12PM

Room 120C

Insomnia, anxiety, and suicidal ideation.

Woolley SB, Goethe JW, Cohn RL

Tuesday, 5/8/12

3:30 PM - 5PM

Room 111B

Anxiety Disorders Center/Center for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy News

The Anxiety Disorders Center received two Open Competition Grants from Hartford Hospital  The first, "Development of an Anxiety Sensitivity-Based Intervention for Substance Use and Anxiety Comorbidity" (B. Worden & D. Tolin, PIs), aims to test a novel cognitive-behavioral intervention for patients with anxiety and substance use disorders.  The second, "Effectiveness and Neuropsychological Predictors of Guided Self-Help for OCD" (G. Diefenbach, PI), aims to examine neuropsychological factors that predict OCD patients' ability to respond to a guided self-help program. In other ADC news, Dr. David Tolin's new book, "Face Your Fears: A Proven Plan to Beat Anxiety, Panic, Phobias, and Obsessions" was released this month and is on sale at Amazon.com or at local booksellers.

 

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