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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    

Florida Psychiatric Society Spring Meeting,  Hyatt Sarasota, April 4-6, 2008

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Florida Psychiatric Society Fall Meeting,  Omni Orlando Resort at ChampionsGate, September 19-21, 2008
 

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.

 

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