Physician Health: Personal Challenges in Medical Practice, Presented by the TMA Committee on Physician Health and Rehabilitation under the direction of Viki Chancellor, MD, Mansfield ; coordinated by Linda Kuhn, Texas Medical Association.
Friday, May 18, 2012, 2nd Floor, Lone Star A2

• 3 AMA PRA (Cat 1) credits
• 3 Ethics credits
• 3 AAFP (P) credits

Upon completion of the program, participants should be able to: 1) identify support systems that protect the public yet respect the autonomy of a physician who can practice safely with an accommodation for his or her disability; 2) recognize the impact of family system and marital relationship on physician performance; and 3) devise a workplace plan that discourages gender discrimination. Target Audience: Physicians and residents of all specialties; other health care professionals

• 12:30 pm: Welcome and Introduction, B. Dean McDaniel, DO, Victoria
• 12:35 pm: Practicing Medicine With a Disability, Sally A. Holmes, MD, Houston (Handout)
• 1:30 pm: Physician Family Well-Being, Catherin Roberts, MD, Dallas (Handout)
• 2:30 pm: Current Challenges for Female Physicians, Lois A. Killewich, MD, PhD, Galveston (Handout)
• 3:30 pm: Adjourn

For more information go to www.texmed.org

NEW RSVP/PAYMENT  DEADLINE:  WEDNESDAY MAY 16 at 5:00 PM
NTSPP warmly invites all psychiatrists, psychiatrists in training, their spouses & significant others to enjoy and (hopefully) lend your talents  to:
“Psychiatrists at Play“
Friday May 18th from 6:30 pm to 9:00 pmish
     Socializing: 6:30 pm
     Dinner: 7:00 pm
     Program: 7:30 pm
Stars:  YOU 
Location: The beautiful backyard of two fine physicians and splendid human beings ~ where it all happened before!  Location and particulars sent out by email.  

Dress:  Casual
Bar:     BYOB
Menu:  Catered by Mike Anderson’s BBQ House:
Choice of Meat:  Brisket, Pulled Pork, or Turkey Breast
Old School Barbeque Beans
Garlic Cole Slaw
Dessert:  Granny’s Peach Cobbler
Drinks provided:  Soft drinks and water

“It will be a casual and fun evening for all who attend. Please let me know what you plan to share and whether there is anything we might be able to do to help you show off your talent. A couple of years ago, we had a band of psychiatrists, artists, dancers, sculptors, poets, photographers, handcrafters, a talk about birdwatching, and much more. Please come and share with us what you like to do in your ‘play time.’”
      ~Catherin A. Roberts MD, Program Chair (and President) at NTSPPrsvp@gmail.com

“Psychiatrists are the most supportive audience.”
~ Common wisdom

“OF COURSE I AM COMING” so:  

1.  RESERVE by WEDNESDAY MAY 16 at 5 pm with name, number in your party, talent or play time activities, special menu needs to Catherin Roberts MD at NTSPPrsvp@gmail.com.

2.  PAY  by WEDNESDAY MAY 16 at 5 pm via PayPal below or by check made out to NTSPP and  received by Leonora Stephens MD, NTSPP Treasurer,  at 6350 LBJ Freeway, Suite 252, Dallas TX 75240.

Cost per person:
$12:  NTSPP Chapter Dues-Paid Psychiatrist
$20:  NON Dues-paid Psychiatrist,  Spouse or Significant Other of all Psychiatrists, Sponsor a Resident*
$  5:  APA Member UTSWMC Psychiatry Resident by Self-Pay
$ 10: NON-APA Member UTSWMC Psychiatry Resident, Spouse or Significant Other of all UTSWMC Residents by Self-Pay

*NTSPP always hopes to be able to sponsor UTSWMC psychiatry resident participation in programs, depending on contributions.  Donors will be acknowledged online and in the meetings.  

PAY BY PAYPAL from drop-down menu (Paying for multiple people?  Please pay sequentially.  To pay for TWO people,  for example, first pay for one individually, then come back and pay for the other individually  please — 2 payments):

Membership Category Price Per Person

PSYCHIATRIST NTSPP CHAPTER DUES PAID Member $12.00 USD PSYCHIATRIST NON-DUES Paid $20.00 USD SPOUSE or Significant Other of A PSYCHIATRIST $20.00 USD SPONSOR A UTSWMC Psychiatry Resident $20.00 USD UTSWMC PSYCHIATRY RESIDENT APA member SELF-PAY $5.00 USD UTSWMC PSYCHIATRY RESIDENT NON-APA SELF-PAY $10.00 USD SPOUSE/SO OF A UTSWMC Psychiatry Resident SELF-PAY $10.00 USD

Name (if different from CC)

PAY BY CHECK:  Make check out to NTSPP and send to Leonora Stephens MD at 6350 LBJ Freeway, Suite 252, Dallas TX 75240 to arrive by May 15..

Late reservation request?  Email Catherin Roberts MD at NTSPPrsvp@gmail.com.
Latest status of the event?  Check back here at www.ntspp.org or email NTSPPchapter@gmail.com. 

Psychiatry CME Category 1 at TMA in Dallas
Presented by the Texas Society of Psychiatric Physicians under the direction of Debra Atkisson, MD, Ft. Worth; coordinated by Claire Foster, Texas Medical Association.
Friday, May 18, 2012, 2nd Floor, Lone Star A1

• 6.25 AMA PRA (Cat 1) credits

Upon completion of this program attendees should be able to: 1) characterize the spectrum of arousal from adaptive through pathological and how this relates to both the anxiety disorders and performance anxiety; 2) recognize the signs and symptoms of substance abuse and dependence in the clinical population; 3) identify current treatment strategies for the most common anxiety disorders in children and adolescents; 4) identify the types and prevalence of specific psychiatric disorders reported in major studies of disaster survivors. Target Audience: Physicians practicing in the areas of family practice, internal medicine, pediatrics, geriatrics, psychiatry, and child and adolescent psychiatry

• 7:30 am: Welcome and Introduction, Debra Atkisson, MD, Ft. Worth
• 7:35 am: Music Performance Anxiety, Scott Winter, MD, Ft. Worth Heather Winter Hunnicutt, D.M, Soprano, Georgetown, KY(Handout)
• 9:15 am: Break
• 9:45 am: Addictions: Diagnostic and Treatment Considerations, Stephen Vobach, MD, Dallas (Handout)
• 11:30 am: Lunch Break and Visit To Expo Hall
• 12:30 pm: Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents, Marianne Hopkins, MD, MPH, Dallas
• 1:45 pm: Break
• 2 pm: After the Unthinkable: Disaster Psychiatry 101, Carol North, MD, MPE, Dallas
• 3:30 pm: Adjourn

For Payment Information see www.texmed.org   (TMA members register and attend for free)

Details sent previously by email from NTSPPchapter@gmail.com.  Participants may wish to meet beforehand for dinner nearby.   Are you a psychiatrist or psychiatrist in training not on our confidential elist?  Please write NTSPPchapter@gmail.com.

Sent out by email to our list of psychiatrists and psychiatrists in training.  Not on the confidential list?  Email NTSPPchapter@gmail.com.

From the Co-Presidents:

Hello Dallas Area Women Psychiatrists & Psychiatrists in Training,  Our last meeting for this year will be on Saturday May 12th.   Dr.Gretchen Toler will be speaking about Cardiovascular disease in women and exercise recommendation.  As usual we will have brunch and confidential visiting from 10 am to 11 am and then our program.

The hostess, address, directions and RSVP information are  available as usual by email and will be sent out May 2 or 3rd to the DAWP list.

Are you a female psychiatrist or psychiatrist in training who does not receive these emails?  Would you like to pay dues to join DAWP and be listed in the new public DAWP Online Directory beginning June 1?  Please write NTSPPchapter@gmail.com.

From Bagya Arumugham MD, DAWP Co-President:   All women psychiatrists and women psychiatrists in training are invited:
The Second Saturday April DAWP meeting will be at a DAWPer’s home (location available by email)
SATURDAY April 14 from 10 am to 12 noon
     10  Brunch:    Confidential Fellowship, DAWP business
11  Program:  Drs Madeline Harford and Kathleen Erdman will be reviewing the book Masters of Mind by Theodore Millon.

Check your email for details!

All psychiatrists and psychiatrists in training are warmly invited to the 4th Thursday NTSPP Dinner Program
Thursday April 26  ~ 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm
     6:30 pm  Socializing
    7:00 pm   Program begins
Everything You Need to Know about Board Recertification
Adam Brenner MD

New easy casual location (as sent by email*).  No pre-pay.  Buffet line and self-pay for what you choose to eat,  with wine available
Please reserve or cancel by April 24 at 5:00 pm to Catherin Roberts MD, President & Program Chair, at NTSPPrsvp@gmail.com
*Psychiatrists or psychiatrists in training who do not receive our emails, please email us at NTSPPchapter@gmail.com to be added to our blind-carbon copied email list

The Ken Altshuler MD Grand Rounds in Psychiatry Series announces:

Wednesday March 14 Noon:    Room NG3.112 at UTSWMC
Title: Transforming Awareness: Buddhism, Bakhtin, and Wittgenstein
Presented by: Dr. W. Larry Thornton, MD ~ Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry, UT Southwestern; Faculty, Dallas Psychoanalytic Center; Sabshin Teaching Award, American Psychoanalytic Association

The goal is to help clinicians listen in ways that foster changes in their patients’ self-awareness.

Educational goals:
1. Participants will learn new ways to listen to and understand their patients’ experience.
2. Participants will understand the usefulness of Buddhism and Bakhtin’s literary theory in understanding their patients’ experience..
3. Participants will better appreciate the role of certainty in mental life and see the benefits of questioning those certainties.

Lucy Dodd
Lucy.Dodd@UTSouthwestern.edu
Department of Psychiatry, 5323 Harry Hines Blvd. , Dallas TX 75390-9070
PH) 214.648.7392   FX) 214.648.7370