Psychiatric Centers at San Diego

The Journal Club was created several years ago for the purpose of providing PCSD clinicians with a periodic forum for discussion of clinical research of recent publication in the leading psychiatric journals in the USA and Europe.

A partial list of the journals routinely reviewed includes:

American Journal of Psychiatry
Archives of General Psychiatry
Biological Psychiatry
Journal of Affective Disorders
American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
British Journal of Psychiatry
Psychological Medicine
Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica
Journal of Clinical Psychiatry
New England Journal of Medicine
JAMA, and several others

Members of the club are assigned papers for which they serve as discussants at monthly meetings around dinner. Typically, 8-12 papers are reviewed at each session. The discussions and exchange of ideas stress the usefulness and applicability of the newly gained information to day-to-day patient care.

Invited Speaker Series*
* Since 1998 these educational activities are fully approved for Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits. Since September 1999, they are also approved for Continuing Education Units (CEU) for L.C.S.W.'s and M.F.T.'s.

Psychiatry is a rapidly evolving field of medicine. The last 30 years have seen dramatic progress in the areas of diagnosis, medication treatment, and psychotherapy techniques. PCSD understands that in order to be able to provide cutting edge treatment for our patients, it is essential that our clinicians have access to current advances in the field. To this end, PCSD has a busy lecture schedule designed to meet our continuing education needs. Invited speakers are leaders in their areas of expertise and most have direct research experience through their academic work at major US universities.

2001: Invited Speaker Series
Date	Title	Speaker
1/25/01	New Antipsychotic Meds	Donna Wirshing, MD
2/16/01	SSRIs in Women's Health	Vivian Burt, MD
3/23/01	Alzheimer's Disease and other Dementia (NOT CME/CEU)	Dee Silver, MD
4/28/01	Psychopharmacology and family therapy	Roy Reskinoff, MD
6/01/01	Update on Treatment of Schizophrenia (NOT CME)	Tom Johnson, MD
6/29/01	Star*D Project	A. Albala, MD
7/20/01	Antipsychotics in Children & Adolescents	MLM + ASP
8/24/01	Bipolar Mania	Mark Fry, M.D.
10/26/01	Managing Depression & GAD (NOT CME)	Bernard Caroll, MD
11/16/01	Women's Issues (NOT CME)	Victoria Hendrick, MD
01/25/01	Provigil: Adjunct Therapy (NOT CME/CEU)	Charles Batista, M.D.

2002: Invited Speaker Series
02/22/02	Special Issues in the Treatment of Psychosis in Women	Rimal B. Bera, M.D.
03/22/02	Depression and Anxiety: Tx Goals NOT CME/CEU	John Tierney, M.D.
04/26/02	Approaches to the treatment resistant psychotic patient	Maxim Chasanov, M.D.
05/24/02	Metabolic Effects from Psychotropics	Jonathan Meyer, M.D.
07/26/02	Treatment Resistant Depression	TBA
08/23/02	Behavior Modeling	Alex Kopelowicz, MD
11/22/02	Bipolar Mania: An Overview of Diagnosis and Treatment	Terry Schwartz, MD
12/13/02	Advancements in the Treatment of Schizophrenia	A. Ari Albala, M.D.

2003: Invited Speaker Series
2/28/03	Treatment of Dual Diagnosis Patients	John Tsuang, M.D
4/25/03	Current Management Strategies for Patients with Alzheimer's Disease	Enid Rockwell, M.D.
6/20/03	Update on Depression and Anxiety	Jay Amsterdam, M.D.
7/25/03	Anxiety Disorders in Women	Dr. Levenathal-Alexander
8/22/03	AMA Updates	Ari Albala, M.D.
9/26/03	Atypical Antipsychotics with a focus on ethnicity	Rodrigo Munoz, M.D.
10/24/03	ADHD - Current & Future pharmacological trends and its treatment.	Rakesh Jain, M.D., M.P.H.
11/21/03	Current issues in the management of disorders of sleep and wakefulness	C. Philip Carrol, M.D.

2004: Invited Speaker Series
1/23/04	Treatment Resistance in Violent Psychiatric Patients: Neuropsychiatric Approaches to Assessment and Intervention	Angela Hegarty, M.D.
3/26/04	Mood and the Heart: The Link Between Depression and Heart Disease	R. Claire Friend, M.D.
4/23/04	Biology and Treatment of Depression	Bernard J. Carroll, MBBS, Ph.D., FRC Psych
6/25/04	Efficacy of Dual Action Antidepressants: Lessons and Inflammation	Charles Raison, M..D.
7/29/04	Novel Approaches to the Treatment of Depression, Treatment Resistant Depression, and Bipolar Spectrum Disorders	Robert Lehman, M.D.

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