Grand Rounds
Room 8B60
Typically held the 1st, 3rd & 4th Tuesdays of each month
Noon to 1pm, 8B60, 8th Floor, OHSU Hospital (unless otherwise noted)
Psychiatry Grand Rounds provides continuing medical education for the target audience. To enable discussion that both is about and involves the patient so the physician can better understand the depth of one's mental illness. Explore the history of certain policies and procedures in place for handling mentally ill patients and what can happen to improve care and treatment that they receive. To better explain and expand on various forms of mental illness and how treatment should be approached and practiced by the clinician.
William H. Wilson, M.D.
Program Chair: William H. Wilson, M.D.
Program Coordinator: Cheri Wilson, 503 494-8205
Accreditation
Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Credit
OHSU School of Medicine, Division of CME, designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ per session. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Target audience
Psychiatrists, psychologists, psychiatry residents and fellows, medical students, social workers, masters in administration, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, nurses and pharmacists. Additionally, Psychiatry Grand Rounds is open to the public.
FEBRUARY 28, 2012
Helping Children with Explosive Behavior: A Transactional Treatment Model (pt.2)
Erik Kola, BSN, QMHPInstructor, Department of Psychiatry/OHSU
Learning Objectives:
- Discuss how traditional approaches to addressing maladaptive behavior have been ineffective for children with severe social, emotional, and behavioral challenges
- Understand and discuss the basic tenants of the Collaborative Problem Solving Approach
- Identify evidence based outcomes realized through effective application of the CPS approach
MARCH 6, 2012
Stone Age Body, Space Age Diet: Nutrition, Metabolism and Mental Health
Ann Childers, M.D.
Life Balance NW
Learning Objectives:
- Describe to patients how ways in which most of us grew up with inaccurate nutrition information
- Identify ways in which our understanding of fats has changed and how this knowledge affects the patient's metabolism and overall mental health
- List a minimum of three ways that you could educate your patients as to the changed understanding of fats, CHO and protein in foods, and provide suggestions to help them apply this knowledge practically
MARCH 20, 2012
A Clinical Update on Child & Adolescent ADHD
Bob McKelvey, M.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry/OHSU
Learning Objectives:
- Identify child and adolescent psychiatric disorders frequently confused or co-morbid with ADHD
- Describe proposed changes to DSM-V affecting the diagnosis of ADHD
- Describe the medications most effective for ADHD in children and adolescents
- Identify new psychiatric medications approved for co-administration with standard medications
March 23, 2012
Please note that we will be meeting from noon - 1pm in the Doernbecher Auditorium, DCH11620, for this special Grand Rounds presentation!
Chronic Irritability in Youth and the Misdiagnosis of Bipolar Disorder
Ellen Leibenluft, M.D.
Chief, Section on Bipolar Spectrum Disorders
Emotion and Development Branch
National Institute of Mental Health
Learning Objectives:
- Discuss how the concept of an "episode" is operationalized in the DSM-IV criteria for mania
- Describe how the longitudinal course of youth with non-episodic severe irritability differs from that of youth with episodic mania
- Describe how pathophysiologic research may ultimately help answer nosologic questions
- Describe the potential treatment implications of the differentiation between non-episodic severe irritability and DSM-IV bipoloar disorder
March 27, 2012
“My Dog will Chase Him Away:” Pediatric Trauma Response, Resilience, and Psychotherapeutic Strategies
Margaret Cary, M.D., M.P.H.
Assistant Professor, Child & Adolescent Psychiatry/OHSU
Learning Objectives:
- Demonstrate understanding of the general prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, and resilience among individuals exposed to trauma
- Describe an integrated model of resilience development and strengthening
- Describe the rationale, strategy, and efficacy of Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
APRIL 3, 2012
Oregon's Current Health Reform, Explained and Put into Historical Perspective
David Pollack, M.D.
Professor, Department of Psychiatry/OHSU
Learning Objectives:
- Examine recent legislative and policy initiatives in Oregon to provide universal coverage and delivery system redesign
- Demonstrate the general correlations between the Oregon reforms and the federal health law (Accountable Care Act)
- Describe the concepts of Coordinated Care Organizations and Patient-Centered Primary Care Homes, including the mental health implications of these reform measures
APRIL 17, 2012
Should Exercise Addiction Be A Diagnosis?
Michael Resnick, M.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry/OHSU
Learning Objectives:
- Describe how addiction will be conceptualized in DSM V
- List ways in which exercise is similar to and different from other behavioral addictions
- Describe what is known about co-morbid conditions
- Describe how the current concepts of exercise addiction will be integrated into the participant's own practice
JUNE 5, 2012
Learning from Experience: The Practice of Psychotherapy from Early and Late
Career Perspectives
Michael Yao, M.D., M.P.H.
Chief Resident, Department of Psychiatry/OHSU
Hank Grass
Title and Affiliation Forthcoming...
Learning Objectives:
- Identify at least three common challenges and impasses in psychotherapy practice that recur throughout the span of a career
- Recognize at least three elements contributing to successful negotiation of therapeutic impasses
- Describe the process of psychotherapy supervision and how it may be applied to address therapeutic challenges and impasses in one's own practice
JUNE 26, 2012
Understanding and Working Effectively with Transgender Patients
Sue Orchard, Psy.D.
Associate Director for the Center for Diversity and Multicultural Affairs
Learning Objectives:
- Recognize health disparities faced by transgender patients
- Describe coming out and transitioning process for transgender and gender variant individuals
- Be aware of most recent Standards of Care (2011) for working with transgender and gender variant patients and know the role that mental health providers can play in treating transgender patients
- Improve intake procedures to create a more inclusive office environment
- Review a case vignette
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