Co-Hosted by: Lindner Center of HOPE and Yellowbrick
Please join us for a symposium on the progressive modalities in behavioral health treatment discussing the following: National Innovations, Trauma, Family Experience, Complex Diagnosis,Optimizing Outcomes, and Ethics.
Complimentary continental breakfast and buffet lunch will be provided!
5.5 CE Credits Offered
For questions, please contact Jeanette Lisalda at 310-486-6719 or [email protected].
AGENDA:
7:30-8:15am Registration, Light Breakfast, Networking
8:15-8:30am Welcome by William Morrison, Chief Executive Officer of Constellation Behavioral Health
8:30-9:30am Dr. A. Thomas McLellan: "Innovations in Research: Facing Addiction in America, Highlights of the Surgeon General's report on Alcohol, Drugs & Health"
9:30-10:30am Dr. David Baron: "How Neuroscience Informs Treatment"
10:30-11:00am Networking Break & Meet the Speakers
11:00-12:00pm Dr. Paul Keck: "Borrowing from the Cutting Edge: Using Diagnostic and Treatment Advantages to Optimize Outcomes"
12:00-12:15pm Lunch buffet opens
12:15-1:15pm Mr. David Sheff: Presenting during lunch (no CEC's offered for this portion) "Innovations: Progressive Changes in the Family Experience"
1:15-1:45pm Networking Break & Meet the Speakers
1:45-2:45pm Dr. Judy Ho: "The Triple Threat: Assessment Techniques for Complex Cases of Multiple Diagnoses"
2:45-4:15pm Dr. Pamela H. Harmell: "Legal and Ethical Issues in the Age of Technology"
4:15-4:30pm Closing Remarks, CE Evaluations Returned, Sign-out required for CE credits
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SPEAKERS:
A. Thomas McLellan, Ph.D.
Dr. McLellan has been a career researcher for 35 years at the Treatment Research Institute (which he founded in 1992) and Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania.
In his career, he has published over 450 research articles and chapters on addiction. He has received Life Achievement Awards from the American, Swedish, Italian and British Societies of Addiction Medicine; from the US National Institutes of Drug Abuse and Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism; the US Public Health Service; and the US Surgeon General.
Dr. McLellan’s comments on addiction research and policy have appeared in newspapers such as the New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post; in TV programs such as 60 Minutes, Good Morning America, Today, CNN Situation Room, CBS World News Round-Up, NBC Frontline and in over 30 National Public Radio programs
From 2009 – 2012 Dr. McLellan was unanimously confirmed by the US Senate as Deputy Director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, where he was the principal author of President Obama’s National Drug Control Strategy.
In 2016 Dr. McLellan was the Senior Editor for the US Surgeon General report on Substance Use, Addiction and Health.
Dr. McLellan holds a B.A. from Colgate University and a Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr College. He received postgraduate training in psychology at Oxford University in England.
Dr. David Baron:
David Baron, MD, was born and raised in part in New York City, and later in Livingston, New Jersey. He received his B.A. in Psychology (magna cum laude) and M.D. degrees from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. Dr. Baron went on to complete his psychiatry residency at Tufts/New England Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts.
Dr. Baron is a member of the faculties of Rush University and Rosalind Franklin University/the Chicago Medical School. As Clinical Assistant Professor at the Chicago Medical School Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, he supervised psychiatric residents in their community psychiatry rotation for 15 years. During that time he also served as Administrative Psychiatrist, and Interim Director of Mental Health Services, for the DuPage County Health Department, supervising psychiatrists and over 200 other clinical staff.
Dr. Baron’s clinical and administrative experience and practice over the past 23 years has been within a bio-psychosocial understanding of psychiatric problems, and he has developed expertise in meaningfully integrating psychotherapy and psychopharmacology approaches to help people suffering from a variety of psychiatric disorders.
Dr. Baron is certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, and is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He served on the Ethics Committee of the Illinois Psychiatric Society as a member from 2001 to 2006, and as Chairman from 2006 to 2011.
Dr. Paul Keck:
Paul E. Keck, Jr., MD, is Craig and Frances Lindner Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience at the University of Cincinnati (UC) College of Medicine. He is also President-CEO of the Lindner Center of HOPE, a state-of-the-science, UC-affiliated comprehensive mental health center in Mason, Ohio. Dr. Keck has conducted extensive research in bipolar disorder and clinical psychopharmacology, supported by grants from the NIMH, NARSAD, the Stanley Foundation, the Marriott Foundation, and industry. Since 1996, he has been in the top 10 of the most cited scientists in the world publishing in the fields of psychology and psychiatry.
A magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Dartmouth College, Dr. Keck received his MD with honors from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY. He served his internship in Internal Medicine at the Beth Israel Medical Center in New York and completed his residency training in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA. Dr. Keck remained on faculty at McLean and Harvard before joining the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Cincinnati in 1991.
Dr. Keck is the author of over 400 scientific papers in leading medical journals. He has also contributed over 200 reviews and chapters to major psychiatric textbooks, and is the editor or author of 6 scientific books.
Dr. Keck is the recipient of numerous honors, including the Gerald Klerman Young Investigator Award from the National Depressive and Manic-Depressive Association (NDMDA); the Gerald Klerman Senior Investigator Award from the Depression & Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA); the Exemplary Psychiatrist Award from the National Alliance of the Mentally Ill (NAMI); the Philip Isenberg Teaching Award from Harvard Medical School; the Nancy C A Roeske Certificate for medical student education from the American Psychiatric Association; Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association; the Wyeth-Ayerst AADPRT Mentorship Award; two Communicator Awards for Continuing Medical Education; the Outstanding Physician Partner Award of the Postgraduate Institute for Medicine; and two Golden Apple Teaching Awards from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. He is listed as one of the Best Doctors in Cincinnati by Cincinnati Magazine; The Best Doctors in America, a directory of the top one percent of physicians in the United States as rated by their peers; and is listed among The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds by ScienceWatch.
David Sheff:
David Sheff is the author of Clean: Overcoming Addiction and Ending America’s Greatest Tragedy, the follow-up to his New York Times #1 best seller, Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction. Clean is the result of the years Sheff spent investigating the disease of addiction and America’s drug problem, which he sees as the greatest public health challenge of our time. In 2009, Sheff was named to the Time 100, Time Magazine’s list of the World’s Most Influential People. He was awarded the 2013 College of Problems on Drug Dependence (CPDD) Media Award, and the 2017 American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) Media Award, to be presented in April, 2017.
Sheff’s Beautiful Boy, published in 2008, was based on his article, “My Addicted Son,” which appeared in the New York Times Magazine. The article won a special award from the American Psychological Association for “outstanding contribution to the understanding of addiction.” Beautiful Boy was named the year’s Best Nonfiction Book by Entertainment Weekly, and it won first place in the Barnes and Noble Discover Award in nonfiction. Sheff also contributed to HBO’s Addiction: Why Can’t They Just Stop.
David is on the advisory boards of the The Jed and Clinton Health Matters Campus Program “designed to help colleges and universities promote emotional wellbeing and mental health programming, reduce substance abuse and prevent suicide among their students,” and the International Bipolar Foundation.
Along with The New York Times Magazine, Sheff has also written for The New York Times, Wired, Rolling Stone, Outside, The Los Angeles Times Magazine, Playboy, Esquire and Observer Magazine in England, Foreign Literature in Russia, and Playboy (Shueisha) in Japan. He has conducted seminal interviews with John Lennon and Yoko Ono, artist and dissident Ai Weiwei, nuclear physicist Ted Taylor, Congressman Barney Frank, Steve Jobs, Tom Hanks, Betty Friedan, Keith Haring, Jack Nicholson, Carl Sagan, Salman Rushdie, Fareed Zakaria, and others. He also wrote an award-winning documentary about John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, and a radio special about Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, both for National Public Radio.
Sheff is also the author of Game Over, called “the bible of the videogame industry” by The Wall Street Journal, and “beguiling” and “irresistible. . . almost as hypnotic as a successful video game” by The New York Times. Author Gore Vidal said that China Dawn, Sheff’s book about the Internet revolution in China, is a “fascinating…study of go–getting businessmen in a revived China bound to shape our future.” All We Are Saying, based on Sheff’s interviews with John Lennon and Yoko Ono in 1980, was a Literary Guild Selection book. Charles Champlin, Arts Editor of the Los Angeles Times, wrote: ”David Sheff’s sympathetic questions evoked so much of the Beatle past and of Lennon’s intellectual past and present and future plans that the interview would hardly have been less engrossing and important even it if were not illuminated by tragedy.”
He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley. David lives with his family in Northern California.
Dr. Judy Ho:
Dr. Judy Ho is a board licensed clinical psychologist, a two-time board diplomate of American Board of Professional Psychology and the National Board of Forensic Evaluators, and a tenured Associate Professor of Psychology at Pepperdine University. Her clinical experiences include working in inpatient psychiatric settings; outpatient hospitals and clinics; in forensic settings as a testing psychologist and expert witness in criminal and civic proceedings, and in public schools and special education classrooms. Dr. Ho maintains a private practice where she conducts neuropsychological and forensic assessments and provides evidence-based cognitive-behavioral therapies to couples and individuals. She currently serves as Consulting Neuropsychologist at Bridges To Recovery, an inpatient residential treatment center for adults, and Consulting Forensic Psychologist at Promises Treatment Center, a drug and alcohol residential treatment program for professionals. She conducts regular trainings for mental health providers for Los Angeles Department of Mental Health (LADMH). In past years, she served as a neuropsychological trainer and consultant for the Center for Disease Control (CDC) Legacy Project and as a cognitive-behavioral therapy consultant on the Community Partners in Care Project and the REACH NOLA Project.
Dr. Ho regularly appears on various television programs as an expert psychologist. Notable shows include several primetime programs on networks including CNN (Piers Morgan, CNN Tonight, CNN Newsroom), HLN (Dr. Drew, Nancy Grace, Michaela), Fox (Daily Helpline, Fox 11 News), Discovery Channel (Pretty Bad Girls, Wicked Attraction, Death by Gossip), Lifetime (Killer Kids), ESPN (Outside the Lines), A & E (Miss Murder), Oxygen (Snapped: Killer Couples), NBC (Nightly News), ABC (Eyewitness News), CBS (The Doctors, Evening News), Pivot TV (TakePart Live), Reelz (Celebrity Arrests), and WE TV (Braxton Family values), KTLA (Crime Watch Daily), and ITV (Good Morning Britain). Dr. Ho pursues her media consultant work with the goal of providing information to the general public about psychological issues in daily life and quality mental health care, and to reduce stigma towards mentally ill individuals and to encourage people who need help to seek effective treatment.
Dr. Ho contributes clinical research manuscripts to National and International psychological journals, and writes chapter contributions to Mental Health Textbooks and research articles illuminating issues regarding mental health treatment for high need populations. Dr. Ho is currently working on a book for publication which will help people overcome self-sabotaging behaviors in romantic relationships. Dr. Ho will be doling out practical, easy to implement advice based on what has been scientifically proven in research to improve lives.
Dr. Ho received her bachelors of arts degree in Psychology and bachelor of science degree in Business Administration from UC Berkeley, and her masters of sciences and Ph. D. from the San Diego State University/University of California San Diego Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at UCLA’s Neuropsychiatric Institute and is a two-time recipient of National Institute of Mental Health’s National Research Services Award.
Dr. Pamella Harmell:
Dr. Pamela Harmell is a national lecturer specializing in legal and ethical issues in clinical practice. She is a Professor at the Pepperdine University Graduate School of Education and Psychology and has written extensively in professional publications on ethical practice and Past President of the Board of Psychology. Dr. Harmell is former Chair of the California State Ethics Committee, is the current Chair of the Los Angeles County Psychological Association Ethics Committee. She served on the Board of Directors of the California Psychological Association and is Past President of the Los Angeles County Psychological Association. She has completed one year of law school.
Continuing Education provided by: Yellowbrick
Marriage and Family Therapists: Yellowbrick Foundation is a registered Marriage and Family Therapy Continuing Education Sponsor by the State of Illinois, License #168.000180.
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ADA accommodations: If you require ADA accommodations, please contact our office at least 7 days in advance of the event so that we can ensure accommodations are made. Contact Jeanette Lisalda at 310-486-6719 or [email protected].
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