APA Daily Bulletin - Day 3, 2008 - (Page 1) Campus Violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Symposia examine complex effects of school shootings. Health Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Sessions to provoke discussion on benefits, risks of technology. Frontiers in Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Lecture examines deep brain stimulation in treatment-resistant depression. Military Mental Health In addition to the sessions above, several other sessions today and tomorrow will examine military mental health issues. Forum 8 — Supporting Military Members and their Families During Times of War: Needs, Challenges, and Opportunities Tuesday, May 6, 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Room 149A/B, Level One, Washington Convention Center Lecture 17 — PTSD and Traumatic Stress: From Gene to Policy, Individual to Community, and Trauma to Disaster, Robert Ursano, M.D. Tuesday, May 6, 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Room 143 A/B/C, Level One, Washington Convention Center Symposium 41 — Children and War Tuesday, May 6, 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. Room 150B, Level One, Washington Convention Center Forum 12—Managing the Effects of Combat Trauma: The Evolving Practice at Walter Reed Army Medical Center Wednesday, May 7, 12:00 to 1:30 p.m. Room 144A/B, Level One, Washington Convention Center Forum 14 — Military Psychiatry Today Wednesday, May 7, 2:00 to 3:30 p.m. Room 143 A/B/C, Level One, Washington Convention Center MILITARY MENTAL HE ALTH SESSIONS TACKLE A VARIETY OF Multiple sessions available today and tomorrow will address the unique mental health needs of our military, war veterans, and their families. she hopes this lecture raises awareness among civilian psychiatrists about the many programs available to help mitigate the psychological effects of war on our veterans. Dr. Ritchie said studies show that 15 to 20 percent of war veterans will have symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, and while many will be treated by Veterans Affairs, many will go to civilian psychiatrists. “Psychiatrists need to evaluate returning soldiers for PTSD and traumatic brain injury,” Dr. ISSUES RELATED TO WAR, TRAUMA Psychological Effects Beginning at 11:00 this morning, Lecture 16 will examine the “Psychological Effects of War: From the Battlefront to the Home Front and Back Again.” Speaker Col. Elspeth C. Ritchie, M.D., said Ritchie said. “We’ve learned a lot about the need for — and the benefits of — early intervention following traumatic war experiences.” She said the lecture will include a lot of practical information for psychiatrist, including guidelines for screening for traumatic brain injury. Dr. Ritchie is currently the psychiatry consultant to the U.S. Army Surgeon General and director of proponency of Behavior Health. She is an internationally recognized expert who See Military, page 5 Acclaimed neurologist and author, Oliver Sacks, M.D., signs a copy of his most recent best-selling book, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, for Ben Rouleau, M.S., of Montreal, Quebec. Musicophila is about the relationship between music and individuals with neurological disorders. Dr. Stotland urges continued efforts to shape the future Excerpts from incoming APA President’s speech show how the profession can influence the direction it takes. Nada Logan Stotland, MD, MPH Incoming APA President Welcome to colleagues from countries all over the world. Welcome to psychiatrists from academia, private offices, courts and prisons, general hospitals, alcohol and substance abuse programs, community health centers, and, yes, managed care systems. Welcome to our psychoanalysts and our psychopharmacologists; our child psychiatrists and our geriatricians. Each one of you enriches our meeting, our organization, and our profession. After I fi nished my training, mentors like Hazel Mrazek, Carol Nadelson, Mary Jane England, Leah Dickstein, and Stuart Yudofsky had aspirations for me in academia and in the APA. Mentorship brought me to this podium. Now it is up to me, and to you, to mentor those who come after us. We must pay special attention to our upcoming international, women, and minority colleagues. Our Committee on Women provided my initiation into the APA. It took 140 years for the APA to elect our first woman president. I will be the seventh. At least half of our medical students and residents are women — but the gender balance does not follow them up the academic and administrative ladder where we need their ideas and perspectives. We need to give them maternity leave, child care, and reasonable working hours. And yes, we can. My theme for the coming year is ‘shaping our future.’ Is that a realistic goal? The American Psychiatric Association is the oldest, and one of the largest, medical specialty societies in the United States. We have brought about major social change. Ten years ago, there was no bright young movie star writing a book about her postpartum depression. Crimes committed by people See Stotland, page 6
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