Workshops - Saturday, March 6, 2004
Time: 2:30pm - 5:30pm

2. Using Bibliotherapy to Reduce Stress in Older Adults - Chair: Martica Hall, PhD
Presenters: Jill Cyranowski, Ph.D, Peter Kaufmann, Ph.D, Anna Marsland, Ph.D, Bruce Rollman, M.D, and Michael Stefanek, Ph.D

This workshop will focus on aspects of early career development and grant writing and is geared towards advanced graduate students, post-doctoral fellow and junior faculty in departments of psychology and psychiatry. We have developed a career development outline that roughly follows a career trajectory from graduate school through the assistant professor level. In addition to discussing important components of each stage of the early career development process, faculty will present their own experience and invite questions and discussion from workshop attendees. During this discussion we will also present issues related to publishing original research and review articles. We will conclude the workshop with an in-depth discussion of writing NIH grants. Topics covered will include NIH organization, types of grants, helpful website information, components of successful grants, the review process and institute-specific information from the NCI and NHLBI.

3. Detection of Malingering - Alan Hirsch MD

In forensic psychiatry, mental health professionals routinely need to assess the truth or falsity of histories and to weigh their candor or disingenuousness during the physical examination. Yet psychiatrists are only 57% accurate in recognizing deception. This session is designed to teach different methods for detecting both verbal and nonverbal cues of deception in the clinical setting. Through use of live audience participation and videotapes of actual lying episodes, methods of determining lying will be demonstrated.

4. Psychosomatic Dimensions of National Response Readiness for Terrorism, Disasters & Other Public Health Emergencies - Charles Engel MD, MPH and Dori Reissman MD

The attacks of September 11, 2001 have forever changed our national sense of vulnerability. The psychosocial ripple since that day has altered our economy, restructured our federal and local governments, and changed public health practice and medical research priorities. It has disrupted our collective and individual sense of personal security and health, changed provider prescription patterns, and even altered patient patterns of health care use. Even though a principle impact of terrorism and most natural disasters is emotional, behavioral, and somatic, the national mental health response strategy is still in its infancy. How might the psychiatric and psychosomatic medicine communities contribute to national preparedness and response efforts? This workshop is for conference attendees who want to learn more about the emotional, behavioral and somatic consequences of terrorism and disasters. Workshop presenters will review what is known about the range of individual and community responses to these events, outline an early framework for emergency public mental health response, and demonstrate the critical national need to contend with and attend to psychosocial sequelae of terrorism and disaster. Opening presentations will be followed by an audience participation discussion. Topics of interest include somatic responses to trauma, social impact of quarantine, psychiatric aspects of acute triage and health system surge capacity, and the potential role of new technologies to add to individual and community level psychosocial assessment and communication efforts. The need for mental health professional participation in interdisciplinary clinical and policy collaborations is emphasized.

*Please refer to the workshop number when registering

Pre-Conference Workshop:

GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY IN PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDERS
March 3, 2004
Co-Chairs: Jeanne McCaffrey, PhD and Frank Treiber, PhD

Additional registration fee is required.

This preconference workshop aims to provide a grounding in quantitative and molecular genetics as applied to psychosomatic disorders and traits. The morning program will provide an introduction to genetic epidemiology, including an introduction to quantitative genetics and twin studies, an introduction to molecular genetics, as well as introductions to linkage and family designs and genetic association studies. In the afternoon, we will focus on the application of these methods to psychosomatic disorders and traits. Here, we will provide examples of prior and ongoing twin and family studies of psychosomatic traits, genetic association studies with psychosomatic traits and disorders and an introduction to advanced topics, including gene x environment interaction and haplotyping.

Finally, we will present two sessions of “Getting started” in genetic epidemiology, focusing on laboratory methods, finding collaborators and ethical issues. Throughout the workshop, we have planned several opportunities for question and answer periods.

Our panel of speakers includes Eco de Geus, Ph.D., Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands; Yanbin Dong, M.D., M.Sc., Ph.D., Medical College of Georgia; Harold Snieder, Ph.D., Medical College of Georgia; and Janine Flory, Ph.D., Mount Sinai School of Medicine. The workshop will be co-chaired by Jeanne McCaffery, Ph.D., Brown Medical School, and Frank Treiber, Ph.D., Medical College of Georgia.

We welcome participation from all members of APS with all levels of experience working with Genetic Epidemiology applications.

Click here to view the handouts from this preconference workshop

Workshop Agenda

Morning Program: Introduction to Genetic Epidemiology

9:00 – 9:15 Introduction
Frank Treiber, Ph.D., Medical College of Georgia

9:15 – 9:45 Introduction to Quantitative Genetics and Twin Studies
Eco de Geus, Ph.D., Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands

9 :45 – 10:15 Introduction to Molecular Genetics
Yanbin Dong, M.D., M.Sc., Ph.D., Medical College of Georgia

10:15 – 10:30 Question and answer
Eco de Geus, Ph.D. and Yanbin Dong, M.Sc., Ph.D

10:30 - 11:00 Break

11:00 - 11:30 Introduction to Linkage and Family Designs
Harold Snieder, Ph.D., Medical College of Georgia

11:30 - 12:00 Introduction to Genetic Association Studies
Janine Flory, Ph.D., Mount Sinai School of Medicine

12:00 - 12:15 Question and answer
Harold Snieer, Ph.D. and Janine Flory, Ph.D.

12:15 - 1:30 Lunch on your own

Afternoon Program: Applying Genetic Methods to Psychosomatic Disorders

1:30 - 2:00 Twin and family studies of cardiovascular endophenotypes
Eco de Geus, Ph.D., Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands,

2:00 - 2:30 Association studies with APS traits
Janine Flory, Ph.D., Mount Sinai School of Medicine

2:30 - 3:00 Advanced topics: Gene x environment interaction, haplotyping, phenotyping
Harold Snieder, Ph.D., Medical College of Georgia

3:00 - 3:30 Break

3:30 - 4:00 Getting started I: Laboratory methods
Yanbin Dong, M.D., M.Sc., Ph.D., Medical College of Georgia

4:00 - 4:30 Getting started II: Finding collaborators, Ethical issues
Janine Flory, Ph.D., Mount Sinai School of Medicine

4:30 - 5:00 Question and answer period
Harold Snieder, Ph.D., Medical College of Georgia
Yanbin Dong, M.D., M.Sc., Ph.D., Medical College of Georgia
Eco de Geus, Ph.D., Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands
Janine Flory, Ph.D., Mount Sinai School of Medicine