Please see the tentative schedule below. More details will be added as they are finalized.
Friday, March 13, 2020
1:00-1:45p Executive Council Meeting (Closed)
1:45-2:45p General Council Meeting (open to members, please RSVP)
3:00p Registration Opens
5:00 - 7:00p Welcome Reception ~ Celebrating Our Milestone 60th Annual Conference
Saturday, March 14, 2020
7:30a Registration Opens & Breakfast
8:30-9:00a Welcome & Conference Introduction ~ Smita Das, MD, PhD, MPH
9:00-10:00a TBD
10:00-11:00a Management of Bipolar Disorder ~ Descartes Li, MD
11:00-11:30p Morning Break & Visit with Exhibitors
11:30-12:30p Keynote Speaker
Psychopharmacological Emergencies: When Prescribing Side Effects May be Lethal ~ Jose Maldonado, MD, FAPM
12:30-2:00p Box Lunch Documentary Viewing with Q&A Discussion ~ Gary Tsai, MD
Voices: an award-winning documentary that features the stark and intimate portraits of three very different individuals and their stuggle with severe mental illness in America
2:00-2:30p Afternoon Break & Visit with Exhibitors
2:30p-2:45p Exhibitor Bingo Drawings (must be present to win)
2:45-4:00p Integrative Psychiatry Panel:
Intro to Theory & Clinical Practical Issues ~ James Lake, MD
Investigating Ayurveda in the Genomics Era: A Brief Research Review ~ Sudra Prathikanti, MD
Practical Cases in Integrative Psychiatry ~ Tracy Peng, MD
4:00-5:00p Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy ~ Ronald Albucher, MD
5:00-6:00p Networking Reception & Visit with Exhibitors
Sunday, March 15, 2020
7:30-8:30a Breakfast Buffet & Caucus Table Meetings
8:30 -10:00a Research Frontiers in Psychiatry:
Autoantibody Discovery in Psychotic Disorders: Then and Now ~ Christopher Bartley, MD, PhD
Problematic Cannabis in Youth/Young Adults ~ Adina Fischer, MD, PhD
SAINT: Rapid and Highly Effective Remission from Depression ~ Brandon Bentzley, MD, PhD
10:00-11:00a The Future of PTSD Treatment ~ Shaili Jain, MD
11:00-11:30a Morning Break & Visit with Exhibitors
11:30a - 12:30p Keynote Speaker
Tranceformations: Hypnosis in Brain and Body ~ David Spiegel, MD
12:30–2:00p Seated Lunch/Resident Vignette Competition
2:00–3:00p Why Legislators Need to Hear From Psychiatrists: Evoking Change at the State & Local Level
Erin Berry Philip, MA, JD ~ APA Director, State Government Relations
Kathy Orellana ~ APA Regional Advocacy Director
3:00–3:30p Afternoon Break & Visit with Exhibitors
3:30–3:45p Exhibitor Bingo Drawings (must be present to win)
3:45–5:00p The Bad and the Good: Empirical Findings of What Gets Psychiatrists in Trouble with Regulators and the Law and Good Practice Suggestions
Anna Glezer, MD ~ Panelist
James Reich, MD ~ Panelist
Marv Firestone, MD, JD ~ Moderator
5:00-5:15p Closing remarks
* Schedule subject to change
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