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

Presented by: Timothy Wolff, M.D.   Location: NG3.112   Time: 12 noon
Title: Processing Soldiers’ Stories
Light refreshments located in room NG3.202

Dr. Wolff obtained his undergraduate degree in Biology at Brown University in 1979. He went on to obtain his medical degree at U.T. Southwestern in 1983. Dr. Wolff did his internship and residency training at Baylor College of Medicine, which included work at the Houston VA Hospital, completing it in 1987. Dr. Wolff joined the U.T. Southwestern Faculty in 1987, initially working at the Dallas VA.  He is a professor of psychiatry.  Currently, Dr. Wolff serves as the assistant medical director at the Parkland Psychiatry Outpatient Clinic.  In addition, he is a staff psychiatrist at U.T. Southwestern Medical Center Student Health Services and at the Department of Psychiatry private practice clinic.  Dr. Wolff is a lecturer, advisor, and supervisor of psychiatry residents. He is one of the associate residency training directors for the psychiatry department. Dr. Wolff’s research participation has been in the areas of novel antipsychotics, suicide, and electroconvulsive therapy. Dr. Wolff has been honored by receiving the following awards: American Psychiatric Association Distinguished Fellow and Exemplary Psychiatrist Award from the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill. In addition, he is a member of the North Texas Society of Psychiatric Physicians (past president) and the Texas Society of Psychiatric Physicians (Vice chair of the Academic Psychiatry Committee). Dr. Wolff is a past president of the U.T. Southwestern Medical School Faculty Senate.    For details contact Lucy Dodd  Department of Psychiatry  5323 Harry Hines Blvd.  Dallas TX 75390-9070  PH) 214.648.7392  FX) 214.648.7370

Psychiatry Grand Rounds (CME 1) at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas,   8200 Walnut Hill Lane Dallas, TX 75231,    Haggar Hall
 
December 16, 2010  12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.  SPECIAL DAY & TIME
 
“Marriage – The Impossible Institution”
 
Presented by:  James L. Knoll, III, M.D. of Pagosa Springs, Colorado ~ Former Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas 
 
OBJECTIVES:
As a result of this program, participants will be able to:
•           Discuss why marriage failure rate is so high.
•           Discuss how our present culture leans toward divorce.
•           Discuss some psychodynamics of marriage failures.
•           Learn some tips on maintaining a marriage.
 
TEACHING METHOD:  Didactic Lecture with Question & Answer sessions
 
TARGET AUDIENCE:  Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Social Workers, Nurses, Occupational Therapists, Physical Therapists, Recreational Therapists, Mental Health Technicians, Clergy, Administrators, and other interested persons
 
Texas Health Research & Education Institute is accredited by the Accreditation Council of Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
 
Texas Health Research & Education Institute designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit ™.  Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
 
For more information, please contact the CME Department at 214-345-2323, send email CME@texashealth.org, or visit our website www.texashealth.org/cme. 
 
*** Online CME Activities ***
There are numerous CME activities on a variety of topics available online.  Visit the catalog of online activities at www.texashealth.org/cme.  For the session type, select “Internet” and then select “Display Activities”. 
 
IMPORTANT NOTICE REGARDING CME CONFERENCES
 
Sign or badge in within the 1st 20 minutes of the conference to receive CME Credit.  Sign in sheets will be removed 20 minutes after the start of the conference.  NO CREDIT WILL BE AWARDED FOR LATE ATTENDEES.

Psychiatry Grand Rounds   Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas  8200 Walnut Hill Lane  Dallas, TX 75231  Haggar Hall
November 2, 2010 (Ethics)  12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.  CME 1*  “Psychiatric Disorders: Terminal or Irreversible”

Presented by:  The Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas Ethics Committee.   *The presentation “Family Dynamics at the End of Life” has been designated by Texas Health Research &   Education Institute for 1 credit of education in medical ethics and/or professional responsibility.  Sign or  badge in within the 1st 20 minutes of the conference to receive CME Credit.   Sign in sheets and badge  scanners will be removed 20 minutes after the start of the conference.   NO CREDIT WILL BE AWARDED  FOR LATE ATTENDEES.

October 20, 2010 Wednesday  12 noon to 1:00 pm
The Yin and Yang of NMDA antagonists: Toward novel treatments for schizophrenia and depression
                     John H. Krystal, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry;
Chair, Department of Psychiatry, Yale-New Haven Hospital;
Medical Director, Schizophrenia Biological Research Center, DVA
LOCATION: NG3.112 at UTSWMC for Psychiatry Grand Rounds
 
 
For more info contact

Lucy B. Dodd
Education Coordinator
Department of Psychiatry
Lucy.Dodd@UTSouthwestern.edu

 Wednesday, Apr. 6,2011   Noon to 1:00 pm:  Psychiatry Grand Rounds   Outcome Research in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy for Panic Disorder   Presenter: Barbara Milrod, M.D.   UTSW Medical Center

Haggar Hall  ~ Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas 8200 Walnut Hill Lane

Tuesday May 4, 2010  12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.

“Psycho-Spiritual Development in the Treatment of the Eating Disordered Patient”  CME Category 1 credit

Presented by:  Members of the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas Eating Disorders Treatment Team

(Jim Harris, PsyD; Margaret Miesch, MD; Susan Mericle, MA; Pamela Jenkins, LPC; Darice Doorn, RD; Timothy Nuckols, RT; Matthew Crownover, Chaplain)

OBJECTIVES:

As a result of this program, participants will be able to:

*        Explain how psycho-spiritual development affects eating disorder patients in treatment.

*        Explain the use of art as a modality for encouraging growth.

*        Explain the importance of the team approach in treating eating disorders.

TEACHING METHOD:

Didactic Lecture with Question & Answer sessions

TARGET AUDIENCE:

Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Social Workers, Nurses, Occupational Therapists, Physical Therapists, Recreational Therapists, Mental Health Technicians, Clergy, Administrators, and other interested persons.  Texas Health Research & Education Institute is accredited by the Accreditation Council of Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.  Texas Health Research & Education Institute designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit ™.  Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.   For more information, please contact the CME Department at 214-345-2323, send email CME@texashealth.org<mailto:CME@texashealth.org>, or visit our website www.texsahealth.org/cme<http://www.texsahealth.org/cme>.

*** Online CME Activities ***

There are numerous CME activities on a variety of topics available online.  Visit the catalog of online activities at www.texashealth.org/cme<http://www.texashealth.org/cme>.  For the session type, select “Internet” and then select “Display Activities”.

April 14, 2010 Wednesday 12 to 1 pm

NTSPP Past President Fred Griffin, M.D.

UTSWMC Psychiatry Grand Rounds: “The Psychotherapeutic Process: Some Integrative Models from Neurobiology and Neuroscience ”

UT Southwestern Medical School,  North Campus, Pickens Biomedical Building and Conference Center, 6001 Forest Park Road, Room NG 3.112 (near the Food Court)

FREE PARKING from 12 to 1 p with GR attendance at Visitor Parking Garage on Forest Park Road attached to Pickens Building (#8 on Accompanying Map): www8.utsouthwestern.edu/utsw/cda/dept23450/files/28726.html.  Forest Park Road is perpendicular to both Mockingbird and Inwood Road.

CME 1

Psychiatry GR are held Wednesdays from 12 to 1 pm from the first week in September through the 3rd week in May.  Occasionally the room varies.  Except as noted, they are held in Room NG 3.112 in the Pickens Building near the Food Court.  Parking in the Visitor Parking Garage attached to the Pickens Building is free during the Grand Rounds Hour.

Questions:  Please contact Lucy.Dodd@UTSouthwestern.edu

Haggar Hall of Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas  8200 Walnut Hill Lane  Dallas TX 75231

April 6, 2010     12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.

“Bi-Directional Modification of Reward and Relapse Pathways in Cocaine Addiction”

Presented by:

David W. Self, Ph.D.

Professor of Psychiatry and the Neuroscience Program, Wesley Gilliland Professorship in Biomedical Research

Divisions on Basic Neuroscience and Addictions, Department of Psychiatry and the Neuroscience Program

The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, Texas

More info and to be added to email list:  Gail Peters 214.345.7355