Recovery and Wellness:  The Journey Starts Here
A Joint Effort Sponsored by Community Care Behavioral Health Organization 
and Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic of UPMC

Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic of UPMC
     Psychosomatic Medicine/Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry
     Mental Health Conference Planning

University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
    Center for Continuing Education in the Health Sciences

Community Care Behavioral Health Organization

Psychosomatic Medicine Conference (MC99)

OVERVIEW

Psychosomatic medicine remains a challenging field.  Subspecialty areas in psychosomatic medicine make it more complicated to diagnose, treat, and refer patients with complex medical comorbidities.  Psychiatric, medical, and social factors all need to be taken into consideration when making comprehensive psychiatric consultation evaluations. This conference will provide an update on clinical care and research at the interface of psychiatry and other medical specialties including topics in palliative care, transplantation psychiatry, law and ethics, perinatal psychiatry, and integrated care. The meeting will also give an overview of community resources in addition to research studies in the area of psychosomatic medicine to enable participants to incorporate them into individual practice and clinical care.

PRESENTATIONS

Differentiating Organic and Psychological Aspects of Chronic Disease: IBD as a Model - Eva Szigethy, MD, PhD
Catatonia: History and Clinical Presentation - Andrew Francis, MD, PhD

BREAKOUT SESSIONS

Innovations in Integrated Care 

Primary Care Services - Christopher Dobbelstein, MD, Barbara Nightingale, MD, and Abigail Schlesinger, MD

Specialty Services - Pierre Azzam, MD and Eydie Moses-Kolko, MD

Innovations in Healthcare Delivery

Telepsychiatry – Jack Cahalane, PhD and Julie Graziane, MD
Smoking Cessation Initiatives – KN Roy Chengappa, MD 

Innovations in Education

Psychosomatic Medicine Fellowship - Pierre Azzam, MD, Priya Gopalan, MD, and Julie Graziane, MD
Multidisciplinary Education - Andrea Croom, PhD

Trainee Spotlight/Oral Presentations

Women’s Health 
Neuropsychiatry
Specialty Education

Details can be found on the website, http://www.wpic.pitt.edu/oerp/conferences.  For additional information, please contact Nancy Mundy at mundynl@upmc.edu or (412) 204-9090.  For a complete list of all our programs, please visit our website at www.wpic.pitt.edu/oerp