Mental Health and Telehealth
Organizations and Professional Events
UNIVYU thru UNIVYWZ

Fletcher Allen's experience with two-way interactive videoconferencing began in 1968 by linking nine hospitals in Vermont and New Hampshire via a microwave transmission system. The Interact system was operational through 1985.  In 1994 their telemedicine program evolved to a higher level with the implementation of a pathology network which linked three hospitals via T-1 lines. At the same time Fletcher Allen was experimenting with desktop videoconferencing systems and, by 1995, had established a regional telemedicine network which currently includes 15 sites in Vermont and upstate New York.  Fletcher Allen's Medical Center Hospital of Vermont campus is a major tertiary and primary care facility with more than 800,000 patient visits per year in clinics, hospital settings, and physician offices. Telemedicine is a small part of the larger plan for Fletcher Allen to provide a communications network for the exchange of medical information across Vermont and upper New York State.

Institute activities include:

• Academic programs
• Forensic clinical evaluations
• Professional training
• Empirical and theoretical research
• Public policy consultation and review

Through the expertise of its faculty of attorneys, psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers, the Institute brings an integrated approach to a wide variety of interdisciplinary programs pertinent to mental health practice, social policy, and the law. At the University of Virginia, the Institute is affiliated with the School of Law, the School of Medicine, the Department of Psychology in the School of Arts and Sciences, and the Curry School of Education programs in Clinical Psychology and School Psychology.

The mission of the Institute of Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy is to:

• Understand, assess, prevent, and manage violence in society, with particular emphasis on violence among people with mental disorders
• Promote human rights by developing and strengthening the ethical and legal foundations of the rights of persons who have or are perceived to have mental illnesses and disabilities
• Improve law and policy by developing and shaping laws and public policies related to mental health and human development, including, for example, civil commitment, legal responsibility, competence, surrogate decision- making, confidentiality, child protection, and substance abuse
• Provide better information to the courts by improving the capacity of mental health disciplines to provide sound, reliable clinical and scientific information to civil and criminal courts, and assisting courts to make informed decisions

Current research includes work on sexed subjectivities, children and cyberspace, subjectivity, gender and class in a changed international landscape, poststructuralism, psychology and the media, body-mapping, spirituality and psychology, madness and breakdown, youth culture, new feminisms, sexuality and desire, gender and health.

MIM operates the Lithium Information Center, founded in 1975, which collects, organizes and disseminates information about the biomedical uses of lithium and other treatments for bipolar (manic-depressive) disorder. Currently the Center has more than 28,000 references on file.

1. Psychiatric Update: "The Zeitgeist of Zesty, Zealous Zeusians" (November 11-12, 2011: Madison, WI)
2. Psychiatric Update (November 11-12, 2011: Madison, WI)
3. Psychiatric Update (March 16-17, 2012: Madison, WI)
4. Psychiatric Update (March 16-17, 2012: Madison, WI)
5. Psychiatric Update (October 12-13, 2012: Madison, WI)

Psychiatric Update
"The Zeitgeist of Zesty, Zealous Zeusians"

(You can consult the meeting's Web pages.)

Event sponsor: University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison Institute of Medicine [MIM]

November 11-12, 2011
Madison, WI

Objectives:

• Use guidelines to manage depression more effectively
• Incorporate ethical principles into clinical practice
• Effectively treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder [ADHD] in children and adults
• Master issues related to the treatment of bipolar depression
• Attain a better understanding of what constitutes a mood stabilizer
• Integrate research advantages into the safe and effective use of electroconvulsive therapy
• Become aware of the patient-centered medical home [PCMH]
• Obtain a comprehensive approach to managing traumatic stress disorders

Program:

• Making Sense of Major Depressive Disorder Treatment Guidelines
  • Alan J Gelenberg, MD, Shively-Tan Professor and Chair, Department of Psychiatry, Penn State University, Hershey, Pennsylvania
• Ethical Issues Old and New in Psychiatric Practice
  • Laura W Roberts, MD, MA, Chairman and Katherine Dexter McCormick and Stanley McCormick Memorial Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California
• ADHD: Insights and Treatment Implications in Children and Adults
  • Jefferson B Prince, MD, Director of Child Psychiatry, North Shore Children’s Hospital, Salem, Massachusetts
• Which Agents Qualify as Mood Stabilizers in Bipolar Disorder? and When and How Should Antidepressants be Used in the Treatment of Bipolar Disorder?
  • Frederick K Goodwin, MD, Director, Center on Neuroscience, Medical Progress, and Society; Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, The George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC
• Electroconvulsive Therapy [ECT]: New Developments
  • Charles H Kellner, MD
• The Patient-Centered Medical Home: What It Is and What It Means for Psychiatry
  • David J Katzelnick, MD, Chair, Division of Integrated Behavioral Health; Senior Associate Consultant, Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
• Traumatic Stress Disorders: Where We Are and Where We Need to Go
  • Mark H Pollack, MD, The Grainger Professor and Chairman of Psychiatry, Rush University Medical Center and Rush Medical School, Department of Psychiatry, Chicago, Illinois

As many as 9 continuing education credit hours available for
  -physicians

Event Contact:

Lynn Tobias
Madison Institute of Medicine, Inc.
6515 Grand Teton Plaza
Suite 100
Madison, WI 53719

608/827-2462
608/827-2444 fax

ltobias@healthtechsys.com

(Specially sent in by Lynn Tobias on 5 JUL 11.)

(Please, when you call to ask about this meeting, it would be helpful of you to tell about our World Wide Web pages.)

Psychiatric Update

Event sponsored by: University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison Institute of Medicine [MIM]

November 11-12, 2011
Madison, WI

As many as ? continuing education credit hour equivalents available for
  -physicians

Event Contact:

Lynn Tobias
6515 Grand Teton Plaza
Suite 100
Madison, WI 53719

608/827-2462
608-827-2444 fax

ltobias@healthtechsys.com.

(To help us out it would be very helpful if you were to mention these World Wide Web pages as your source when you call the sponsor to inquire about the above meeting.)

Psychiatric Update

Event sponsor: University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison Institute of Medicine [MIM]

March 16-17, 2012
Madison, WI

There can be up to ? continuing education credit hours available for
  -physicians

Event Contact:

Lynn Tobias
Madison Institute of Medicine, Inc.
6515 Grand Teton Plaza
Suite 100
Madison, WI 53719

608/827-2462
608/827-2444 fax

ltobias@healthtechsys.com

(The above was mailed by Lynn Tobias on 5 JUL 11.)

(A request: would you please be kind and mention our Web pages when you call the sponsor to inquire about the above meeting?)

Psychiatric Update

Sponsored by: University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison Institute of Medicine [MIM]

March 16-17, 2012
Madison, WI

There are as many as ? continuing education credit hours available for
  -physicians

Event Contact:

Lynn Tobias
6515 Grand Teton Plaza
Suite 100
Madison, WI 53719

608/827-2462
608-827-2444 fax

ltobias@healthtechsys.com.

(A request: if you ask about the above event, kindly refer to these Web pages.)

Psychiatric Update

Sponsor: University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison Institute of Medicine [MIM]

October 12-13, 2012
Madison, WI

There can be as many as ? continuing education credit hours available for
  -physicians

Event Contact:

Lynn Tobias
Madison Institute of Medicine, Inc.
6515 Grand Teton Plaza
Suite 100
Madison, WI 53719

608/827-2462
608/827-2444 fax

ltobias@healthtechsys.com

(This material specially sent in by: Lynn Tobias on 5 JUL 11.)

(Please, should you inquire about the above, please do mention these Web pages.)