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Development & Alumni
Alumni Day Friday, October 20, 2006
Facing Stress: Implications for Psychiatric Practice and Research
By now I hope you have received the Save-the Date card about our October 20th Alumni Program: Facing Stress: Implications for psychiatric practice and research. On-line registration is available now at www.cme.yale.edu. I hope you’ll take a few minutes from your busy day to register now. Make sure that you don’t miss out – there are only 150 seats in the venue.
The conference will convene multi-specialty leaders in psychiatric research in order to shape the direction of future research in stress as it relates to psychiatry, child psychiatry, psychosomatic medicine, addiction psychiatry and geriatric psychiatry. Here are very brief descriptions of each speaker’s topic:
Dr. Steven Southwick has an extensive background in basic science and clinical research in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders, and will give an overview of the full program.
Dr. Robert Sapolsky has published cutting-edge research in stress based upon neurobiological studies of the role of glucocorticoids in brain function, and behavioral studies of wild animals in Africa. He lays the framework for the conference in far-ranging swaths of physical and mental afflictions, all linked to stress through neurobiology.
Dr. John Walkup will discuss his active research in stress-related anxiety and depressive disorders in childhood, and focus on findings from multi-center treatment studies (Research Unit for Pediatric Psychopharmacology). His talk begins the life-cycle approach of the conference.
Dr. Thomas Wise will discuss the current research in psychosomatic disorders, including irritable bowel, heart disease, asthma and diabetes, that appear vulnerable to stress, and will present evidence for response to psychiatric interventions. Dr. Wise will present future directions for research, drawing on his perspective as editor of Psychosomatic Medicine.
Dr. Elinore McCance-Katz has important research experience in the co-morbidities of addiction disorders and the neurobiological effects of chronic stress. Dr. McCance-Katz will present data from NIDA Center research, and correlate stress to the etiology and chronicity of addictions.
Dr. Craig Nelson has extensive basic science and clinical research experience and will present exciting new research from collaborative studies in cellular aging and depression in late life, building on the conference theme of the neurobiological cost of stress for the brain.
In the Interactive Sessions, these speakers, joined by Yale faculty, will raise critical questions for future research, stimulate discussion in interactive sessions with audience participants from the scientific community, and create an open forum for sharing ideas.
In summary, Plenary Presentations and Interactive Sessions will discuss new basic science research that tightens the link between stress and disease. We hope that you will join us!
Register today!
Catherine Chiles, M.D.
President, Yale Psychiatry Alumni Association
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