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2019 Annual Meeting Agenda

Day 1 Agenda

Wednesday, October 23, 2019

Belmont Country Club
181 Winter Street, Belmont, MA

12:00 pm –
1:10 pm		 Lunch (informal buffet)
1:15 pm –
1:25 pm		 Welcome, Introductions and Overview
1:25 pm –
2:10 pm		 McLean Hospital Updates

Questions and Discussion
2:10 pm –
2:50 pm		 The Emerging Epidemic of Alzheimer’s Dementia: What Geriatric Psychiatry Has to Offer (Watch video)
  • Brent Forester, MD, MSc

Questions and Discussion
2:50 pm –
3:15 pm		 Break
3:15 pm –
5:30 pm		 Roundtables/Ask the Expert Discussions (please choose 3 topics)

Test My Brain: Citizen Science Toward Better Cognitive Health

  • Laura Germine, PhD

Race and Sexuality Matters in Psychotherapy

  • Cecil R. Webster, Jr, MD

Emotion Dysregulation in Families: Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) for Teens, Pre-teens and Parents

  • Alan E. Fruzzetti, PhD
  • Alison M. Yaeger, PsyD

Trauma and Substance Use Disorders in Women: The Importance of an Integrated Treatment Approach

  • Amanda E. Sedgewick, DO

Caring and Decision Making for Loved Ones with Dementia

  • Joan M. Gilllis, MSW, LICSW
  • Alexis Freedberg, MD

Improving Outcomes in Adolescent Depression Through Big Data and Personalized Medicine

  • Christian A. Webb, PhD

The Science of Being Stuck: Implications Across the Spectrum of OCD, Anxiety and Substance Use Disorders

  • R. Kathryn McHugh, PhD
  • Jason Krompinger, PhD
6:00 pm –
6:45 pm		 Reception
6:45 pm –
7:00 pm		 Transition to Dinner
Before entrée Opening Remarks
After entrée Notes to My Mother (Watch video)
  • Leslie Jackson Chihuly

Questions
9:00 pm Close

Day 2 Agenda

Thursday, October 24, 2019

McLean Hospital
Administration Building

8:30 am –
9:00 am		 Continental Breakfast
Frederic G. Corneel Trustees Room
9:00 am –
9:15 am		 National Council Update
George Putnam Room
9:15 am –
9:30 am		 McLean Development Updates

Questions and Discussion
9:30 am –
10:20 am		 Understanding Trauma: From Bench to Bedside
  • Kerry J. Ressler, MD, PhD
  • Milissa Kaufman, MD, PhD
  • Bill Carlezon, PhD
  • Isabelle M. Rosso, PhD

Questions and Discussion
10:20 am –
10:35 am		 Break
10:35 am –
11:25 am		 The Importance of Integrating Substance Use Disorders and Research
  • Roger D. Weiss, MD
  • Hilary Smith Connery, MD, PhD
  • R. Kathryn McHugh, PhD

Questions and Discussion
12:00 pm –
1:00 pm		 Lunch with Clinicians, Investigators and Key Staff
de Marneffe Building
1:30 pm –
2:00 pm		 Catching Psychosis Early: A New Clinic for Youth at Risk
  • Joseph Gold, MD
  • Perihan Esra Guvenek-Cokol, MD

Questions and Discussion
2:00 pm –
2:15 pm		 Closing Remarks: The National Council as Ambassadors for McLean