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NEA-BPD Annual Conference

Insights into Borderline Personality Disorder:

Neurobiological Research and Clinical Interventions

Saturday, October 20 – Sunday, October 21, 2007           The Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York City, NY

Conference Sponsors

The National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder

in partnership with the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD)

 

The Mount Sinai Medical Center (MSSM)

 

The New York City Chapter of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI-NYC Metro)

Conference Goals

 

This conference is conducted in accordance with the published Mission of NEA-BPD: To raise public awareness, provide education, promote research on borderline personality disorder, and enhance the quality of life of those affected by this serious mental illness, and to meet the specific goals of leading family education programs, promoting workshops, and sponsoring regional meetings.

 

Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a severe and generally chronic disorder that presents patients and their families and researchers with multiple challenges. These complex challenges will be addressed in order to inform mental health professionals, families, and consumers of current neurobiological research and treatment options.

Conference Description

Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a severe and chronic disorder that presents researchers and clinicians, persons with BPD and their families with multiple challenges. In the context of neurobiological findings and their implications for treatment, the complexities of the disorder will be addressed at the 7th Annual National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder conference. The aim of the conference is to inform researchers, clinicians, mental health professionals, families, and consumers of the most current research and treatment options.

 

These annual scientific and educational conferences are supported by NIMH grant R-13MH068456-05.*

Conference Program -

Saturday, October 20, 2007

Moderator for the Day:

Larry J. Siever, MD

Professor of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Executive Director, Mental Illness Research Education and Clinical Center MIRECC

James J. Peters Medical Center

 

Welcome

Perry D. Hoffman, PhD

President,

National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder

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Opening Remarks: Directions and New Directions

Eric Hollander, MD, DFAPA, FACNP

Esther and Joseph Klingenstein Professor

Chairman of Psychiatry

Director, Seaver and New York Autism Center of Excellence

Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY

 

Herbert Pardes, MD

President and CEO

New York-Presbyterian Hospital and New York-Presbyterian Healthcare System, New York, NY

 

Ellen Stover, PhD

Director, Division of Mental Disorders, Behavioral Research, and AIDS (DMDBA)

National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Bethesda, MD

 

Neuroimaging Studies of Emotion Processing in BPD

Harold W. Koenigsberg, MD

Associate professor of Psychiatry

Mount Sinai Medical School, New York, NY

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Trauma and Disassociation in Borderline Personality Disorder

Christian Schmahl, MD

Ltd. Oberartz

Klinik für Psychosomatik und Psychotherapeutische Medizin Zentralinstitut für Seelische Gesundheit

Mannheim, Germany

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Neurobiology and Treatment of Aggression in Personality Disorder 

Emil F. Coccaro, MD

Ellen C. Manning Professor and Chair, Department of Psychiatry

The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

 

Borderline Personality Disorder: Isn’t It time for a New Name?

Antonia New, MD

Associate Professor of Psychiatry

Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY

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Serotonin-2A Receptor Binding in Borderline Personality Disorder

Paul H. Soloff, MD

Professor of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic

University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA

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Implications for Treatment -

Overview and Moderator:

 

Larry J.  Siever, MD

Panelists:

Emil F. Coccaro, MD

Harold W. Koenigsberg, MD

Antonia New, MD

Christian Schmahl, MD

Paul H. Soloff, MD

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Sunday, October 21, 2007

Moderator for the Day:

 

Kenneth R. Silk, MD

Professor, Department of Psychiatry

University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI

 
Transference-Focused Psychotherapy: Aiming for Change in Psychological Structure

 

Frank E. Yeomans, MD, PhD

Director of Training, Personality Disorders Institute

Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry

Weill School of Medicine at Cornell University, New York, NY

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Dialectical Behavior Therapy

Alan E. Fruzzetti, PhD

Associate Professor of Psychology

Director, Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Research Program

University of Nevada, Reno, NV

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Schema-Focused Therapy 

Jeffrey Young,  PhD

Director, Schema Therapy Institute

Faculty. Department of Psychiatry

Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York

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Young Investigator Award Presentation

Facilitator:

Alan E. Fruzzetti, PhD

 
Emotion Regulation and BPD: Laboratory and Experience Sampling Research

Alexander L. Chapman, Ph.D.

Simon Fraser University

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Clinical Roundtable: The Three Faces of Psychotherapy for BPD Clinical Perspectives

Overview and Moderator: Kenneth R. Silk, MD

Alan E. Fruzzetti,

Frank E. Yeomans, MD

Jeffrey E. Young, PhD

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Family and Consumer Perspectives Panel

Facilitator:

Perry D. Hoffman, PhD

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