March 8th, 2022
Tuesday
18:00
GMT
Free
Registration is required
Certification
To all attendants via email
“March 8th, 2022 at 18:00 GMT”
New York
13:00
GMT/London
18:00
Athens
20:00
San Diego
10:00
CEST/Paris, Rome
19:00
Beijing
02:00 (09/03)
The Webinar continues the series of MSc Webinars – the online-ZOOM events for the clinicians and educators in the field of psychiatry.
The MSc Webinar is organized for mental health professionals by the Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences and Medical School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, under the auspices of:
WPA 2020-23 Action Plan group on Evidence Based Psychopharmacology
WPA section on Evidence Based Psychiatry
The aim of these educational sessions is to provide a global and comprehensive update of the newest developments in neurobiology, psychopharmacology, treatment guidelines and personcentered care of mental disorders.
The strategic approach of the invited speakers is to avoid content-free eloquence and authority and to face hard questions on the base of research findings.
SPEAKERS
Prof. Myrna M. Weissman
"Interpersonal Psychotherapy: A Global Reach"
Dr. Weissman received a PhD in epidemiology from Yale University School of Medicine in 1974. Her research is on understanding the rates and risks of mood disorders in families using methods of epidemiology, genetics, neuroimaging, and the application of these findings to develop and test empirically based treatments end preventive intervention.
Her current interest is in bringing psychiatric epidemiology closer to the translational studies in the neurosciences and genetics and on using electronic health records for research. She directs 3-generation study of families at high and low risk for depression who have been studied clinically for nearly 40 years and who have participated in genetic and imaging studies. She directed a multicenter study to determine the impact of maternal remission from depression on offspring. She was one of the PIs in a multicenter study to find biomarkers of response to the treatment of depression. Along with her late husband Gerald Klerman, she developed Interpersonal Psychotherapy, an evidence-based treatment for depression, now with over 140 clinical trials, translated into numerous languages and recommended by the WHO and the US Preventive Task force of Perinatal Depression as one of the evidence-based psychotherapy.
In 2009, she was selected by the American College of Epidemiology as 1 of 10 epidemiologists in the United States who has had a major impact on public policy and health. The summary of our work on depression appears in a special issue of the Annals of Epidemiology, Triumphs in Epidemiology, April 2009. In 2016, she was listed as one of the 100 highly cited authors, according to Google Scholars Citations (H Index (Sept 2021) 182 i110 Index 686). In 2020, she received the Brain and Behavior Pardes Humanitarian Award. In 2021, she received the research award from the American Psychiatric Association.
Prof. Edward Shorter
"The Current Rise in Suicide: How to Interpret It?"
A social historian of medicine and clinical science, Professor Shorter has published widely in this field, including histories of obstetrics and gynaecology (Women’s Bodies), the doctor-patient relationship (Doctors and Their Patients), psychosomatic illness (From Paralysis to Fatigue), and sexuality (Written in the Flesh: A History of Desire). He is also the author of Partnership for Excellence: Medicine at the University of Toronto and Academic Hospitals (2013), which traces the evolution of Toronto’s academic health science network.
Since 1991 Shorter’s primary appointment has been in the Faculty of Medicine, where he holds the Jason A. Hannah Chair in the History of Medicine. Since then he has emerged as an internationally recognized historian of psychiatry and the author of numerous books on the evolution of the discipline, including A History of Psychiatry (1997); Before Prozac (2009); and How Everyone Became Depressed (2013). In 1996 he was cross-appointed as a Professor of Psychiatry. His latest book, The Madness of Fear: A History of Catatonia (2018), co-written with Dr. Max Fink, provides an accurate understanding of the symptoms and treatments for an illness that has long been hidden under other diagnoses.
Professor Shorter is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. His most recent publication is The Rise and Fall of the Age of Psychopharmacology (Oxford)
Organization
MSC ‘CLINICAL MENTAL HEALTH’
SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
FACULTY OF HEALTH SCIENCES
ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI GREECE
In collaboration with
WPA 2020-23 Action Plan group on Evidence Based Psychopharmacology
WPA section on Evidence Based Psychiatry
