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Scientific
Meetings
Each spring and fall the Florida Psychiatric Society holds
meetings during which organizational business is conducted, committees meet, and
scientific programs of the highest quality are presented for Continuing Medical
Education credit. Every other year FPS provides all of the legislature mandated
CME requirements.
(View
Florida CME requirements).
The Council meets first on Friday morning and the
membership conducts its business meeting on Friday afternoon. Most committees meet on
Friday. Scientific programs are scheduled for Saturday and Sunday mornings.
We also sponsor other meetings including the annual Masters of Psychiatry
Conference. Contact the Tallahassee office for additional information.
Meeting Schedule--Save the Dates
Highlights from the 2007 Fall CME Meeting
By George L. Warren, MD
Chair, FPS Editorial Board
John T. Bailey, DO, discussed Management of Borderline Disorders-A Case Study,
which he underscored by describing a clinical case. As listeners pointed out,
much of the patient’s treatment course was foretold in a dream presented by the
patient.
Karen Esposito, MD, offered two talks: Pharmacogenetics of Depression and the
Neurobiology of Depression. A stand-in for the original presenters, she did a
wonderful job presenting material that was foreign to most listeners but
provided much detail about newer medications and how they are developed.
Borderline Personality Disorder treatment is not as difficult as most of us were
taught. The presentation by John G. Gunderson, MD, Update on Borderline
Personality Disorder, helped us understand that people with borderline
personalities can often be spared quite miserable lives if properly treated. Dr.
Gunderson offered encouragement and a challenge for clinicians not to become
discouraged or give up on borderline patients.
Blaise Aguirre, MD, illustrated how early intervention might prevent a
progression of debilitating symptoms for many patients. His presentation,
Psychotherapy in Emerging Adolescent Borderline Personality Disorder, was well
received. He read a powerful and poignant letter written by a borderline patient
describing her life experiences and the enormous benefit of psychotherapy.
Stefan Pasternack, MD, energized the audience with his talk describing the
effective management of Love Disorders and Mental Illness.
A panel consisting of Karen Teston, MD, Wade Myers, MD, and Richard Marshall,
PhD, and moderated by Irv Milowe, MD, presented Third Parties to the
Psychiatrist-Physician Relationship: A Discussion of Boundary in the Areas of
Disability, Expert Witness and Treatment Shared with Other Clinicians. The
discussion included issues we all needed to hear.
Vineet Mehta, MD, provided a cogent update regarding New Treatments for
Substance Abuse Disorders.
Norman Krudedelback, PhD, offered new information when he described patients who
have problems with Compulsive Gambling. Few people or programs are sufficiently
experienced to adequately manage gambling addictions.
Krishan K. Batra, MD, ended the weekend with an insightful description of
Prescription Drug Abuse: A Hidden Epidemic, aimed at helping us be able to more
readily identify and try to prevent this frequent abuse.
Non
Florida Psychiatric Society CME
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