University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center
Departmental Conference Series/Grand Rounds
UNM Department of Psychiatry
Domenici Center East Building, Auditorium: Room 1220
Fridays, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
February Presentations:
Friday, February 6, 2009
“Successful Cognitive and Emotional Aging: A Fact or a Fantasy?”
Dilip V. Jeste, MD
Estelle and Edgar Levi Chair in Aging
Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Neurosciences
Director, Sam and Rose Stein Institute for Research on Aging
Chief, Geriatric Psychiatry Division
University of California San Diego/VA SD Healthcare System
San Diego, California
Friday, February 13, 2009
“A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Investigation of Disease Duration in Chronic Schizophrenia”
Christopher Abbott, MD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Department of Psychiatry
University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Friday, February 20, 2009
“On the Origins of Reflective Functioning or ‘Mentalization’:
Lessons for Clinical Work from Longitudinal Attachment Research”
Howard Steele, PhD
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Psychology
New School for Social Research
Co-Director, Center for Attachment Research
Founding and Senior Editor, Attachment & Human Development
New York, New York
Friday, February 27, 2009
“Why We Throw Out the Pills: Noncompliance and the Bipolar”
David Lovelace
Author of Scattershot: My Bipolar Family
Writer, carpenter, and former owner of the Montague Bookmill near Amherst, Massachusetts
Nominated for a Pushcart Prize and the Paterson Literary Review’s Allen Ginsberg Award for his poetry
Mr. Lovelace lives in western Massachusetts with his wife and children.
The University of New Mexico, School of Medicine, Office of Continuing Medical Education, is accredited by the Accreditation Council of CME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The Office of Continuing Medical Education designates this continuing medical education activity for 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
The UNM Dept. of Psychiatry is recognized by the National Board of Certified Counselors to offer continuing education for National Certified Counselors. We adhere to NBCC Continuing Education Guidelines. This program is acceptable for 1.0 hour for Counselors who attend.
UNM, as an institution of Higher Education, is an approved provider of continuing education for Psychologists.
The New Mexico Board of Social Works Examiners, as of January 2005, no
longer accredits /certifies Social Work Continuing Education Credit. They
do, however, recognize CEU’s approved of by the National Board of Certified
Counselors (NBCC) and other specified organizations. As The UNM Department
of Psychiatry Departmental Conference Series/Grand Rounds is approved to
offer NBCC credit, Social Workers attending and signing the
attendance sheet will be able to use the earned CEU’s in meeting their
licensing renewal requirements in the State of New Mexico.
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