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• Courses

  Courses are designed to emphasize learning experiences that actively involve participants and include the opportunity for informal exchange with the faculty. Offered in four-hour (half-day), six-hour (full-day) and eight-hour (full-day) sessions, courses either review basic concepts in a special subject area or present advanced material on a circumscribed topic. Participants must purchase tickets to attend.

  SATURDAY, MAY 20

  Eating Disorders and Obesity Management for the General Psychiatrist

  Director: B. Timothy Walsh, M.D.

  8:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
  San Diego Convention Center

  Buprenorphine and Office-Based Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder

  Director: John A. Renner, M.D.

  8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
  San Diego Convention Center

  Identifying and Helping Older Adults With Mild Neurocognitive Disorders

  Director: James M. Ellison, M.D., M.P.H.

  8:00 a.m. – Noon
  San Diego Convention Center

  SUNDAY, MAY 21

  Talking With Your Patients About Marijuana: What Every Psychiatrist Should Know

  Director: Henry S. Levine, M.D.

  8:00 a.m. – Noon
  San Diego Convention Center

  Updates in Geriatric Psychiatry

  Director: Rajesh R. Tampi, M.D., M.S.

  8:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m
  San Diego Convention Center

  What Every Psychiatrist Needs to Know About Epilepsy

  Director: Gaston Baslet, M.D.

  8:00 a.m. – Noon
  San Diego Convention Center

  Psychiatric Disorders in Pregnant and Postpartum Women: An Update

  Director: Shaila Misri, M.D., F.R.C.P.C.

  8:00 a.m. – Noon
  San Diego Convention Center

  Integrating Neuroscience Into the Clinical Practice of Psychiatry

  Director: Melissa Arbuckle, M.D., Ph.D.

  8:00 a.m. – Noon
  San Diego Convention Center

  Cognitive-behavior Therapy for Severe Mental Disorders: Building Treatment Skills That Work

  Director: Jesse H. Wright, M.D., Ph.D.

  8:00 a.m. – Noon
  San Diego Convention Center

  Good Psychiatric Management of Borderline Personality Disorder

  Director: John Gunderson, M.D.

  8:00 a.m. – Noon
  San Diego Convention Center

  MONDAY, MAY 22

  Mind-Body Programs for Stress, Anxiety, Depression, PTSD, Military Trauma and Mass Disasters: Lecture and Experiential

  Director: Patricia L. Gerbarg, M.D.

  8:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
  San Diego Convention Center

  Risk Assessment for Violence

  Director: Phillip J. Resnick, M.D.

  1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
  San Diego Convention Center

  The Clinical Assessment of Malingered Mental Illness

  Director: Phillip J. Resnick, M.D.

  8:00 a.m. – Noon
  San Diego Convention Center

  Emergency Psychiatry: Evaluation and Treatment of the Crisis Patient

  Director: Kimberly D. Nordstrom, M.D., J.D.

  8:00 a.m. – Noon
  San Diego Convention Center

  Patient-Centered and Interprofessional Approach to Managing Behavior Disturbance in Advanced Dementia

  Director: Maureen C. Nash, M.D., M.S.

  8:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
  San Diego Convention Center

  Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Psychiatrists: A DBT Toolkit for Treating Borderline Personality Disorder

  Director: Beth Brodsky, Ph.D.

  8:00 a.m. – Noon
  San Diego Convention Center

  Motivational Interviewing as a Core Communication Style for Psychiatrists

  Director: Michael A. Flaum, M.D.

  8:00 a.m. – Noon
  San Diego Convention Center

  Suicidality Assessment and Documentation for Health Care Providers

  Director: David V. Sheehan, M.D., M.B.A.

  1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
  San Diego Convention Center

  Essentials of Assessing and Treating Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in Adults and Children

  Director: Thomas E. Brown, Ph.D.

  8:00 a.m. – Noon
  Repeat Offering: 1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
  San Diego Convention Center

  Evaluation and Treatment of Sexual Dysfunctions

  Director: Waguih William IsHak, M.D.

  1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
  San Diego Convention Center

  Acute Brain Failure: Neurobiology, Prevention and Treatment of Delirium

  Director: Jose R. Maldonado, M.D.

  1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
  San Diego Convention Center

  TUESDAY, MAY 23

  Evidence-Based Psychodynamic Therapy: A Pragmatic Clinician’s Workshop

  Director: Richard F. Summers, M.D.

  8:00 a.m. – Noon
  San Diego Convention Center

  Neuroanatomy of Emotions

  Director: Ricardo M. Vela, M.D.

  8:00 a.m. – Noon
  San Diego Convention Center

  Understanding and Treating Narcissistic Personality Disorder

  Director: Frank E. Yeomans, M.D.

  1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
  San Diego Convention Center

  Conversion Disorder: Update on Evaluation and Management

  Director: Gaston Baslet, M.D.

  8:00 a.m. – Noon
  San Diego Convention Center

  ECT Practice Update for the General Psychiatrist

  Director: Peter Rosenquist

  1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
  San Diego Convention Center

  Exploring Technologies in Psychiatry

  Director: John Luo, M.D.

  1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
  San Diego Convention Center

  Treatment of Schizophrenia

  Director: Philip Janicak, M.D.

  8:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
  San Diego Convention Center

• Master Courses

  These in-depth courses are designed to broaden and enhance your professional skills and knowledge in special areas and include applicable publications from American Psychiatric Association Publishing.

  SATURDAY, MAY 20

  Becoming Mindful: Integrating Mindfulness Into Your Psychiatric Practice

  Director: Seema Desai, M.D.

  8:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
  San Diego Convention Center

  Educational Objectives:

  1. Identify how mindfulness can be a useful tool in psychiatric practice for the clinician and the patient and understand how to access online resources and case-based practice examples;
  2. Participate in three mindfulness-based exercises: “Focus on Breath,” “Mindful Communication” and “Mindfulness and Technology”
  3. Critique the science and evidence base for clinical applications of mindfulness in specific patient populations; and
  4. Articulate important obstacles and contraindications to the use of mindfulness in treatment settings

  SUNDAY, MAY 21

  Pediatric Psychopharmacology

  Director: Karen Wagner, M.D., Ph.D.

  8:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
  San Diego Convention Center

  Educational Objectives:

  1. Demonstrate knowledge of current clinical guidelines for the use of pharmacotherapy in pediatric psychiatric disorders;
  2. Identify practical clinical knowledge gained in the use of psychopharmacology and management of adverse effects; and
  3. Utilize recent research on pharmacotherapy in common childhood psychiatric disorders

  MONDAY, MAY 22

  Street Drugs and Mental Disorders: Overview and Treatment of Dual Diagnosis Patients

  Director: John W. Tsuang, M.D.

  8:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
  San Diego Convention Center

  Educational Objectives:

  1. Understand the issues related to the treatment of dual diagnosis patients;
  2. Know the popular street drugs and club drugs; and
  3. Know the available pharmacological agents for treatment of dual diagnosis patients

  TUESDAY, MAY 23

  Essential Psychopharmacology

  Director: Alan F. Schatzberg, M.D.

  8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
  San Diego Convention Center

  Educational Objectives:

  1. Provide an update on recent advances in psychopharmacology for major disorders;
  2. Discuss in detail approaches to the treatment of autism;
  3. Review recent studies on the pharmacogenetics of antidepressant response;
  4. Provide a rational basis for selection of medications for bipolar disorder; and
  5. Discuss the efficacy and side effects of antipsychotic agents