CONFERENCE SCHEDULE 

DAY 1: THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 2011 &

Introduction

David J. Kupfer, MD

Bio | Slides & Video

Opening Remarks
David A. Lewis, MD

Bio | Slides & Video
 

SYMPOSIUM I – Medical Life Style Management: Theory and Interventions (e.g. Diabetes, Hypertension, Obesity)
Chair -- Fouzia Laghrissi-Thode, MD Bio

Health benefits to seeking synchrony, harmony and regulation: sleep and circadian rhythms in bipolar disorder
Allison Harvey, PhD
Bio | Slides & Video

Bipolar disorder and cardiometabolic diseases: a risky combination
Fouzia Laghrissi-Thode, MD
Bio | Slides & Video

Prevalence and treatment of cardiometabolic conditions in patients with bipolar disorder
Benjamin I. Goldstein, MD
Bio | Slides & Video

Changing health related behaviors: Can real-time interventions improve the course of bipolar disorder
Michael J. Ostacher, MD, PhD
Bio | Slides & Video

SYMPOSIUM II – Bipolar Disorder and the DSM
Chair -- Carlos A. Zarate, MD
Bio |Slides & Video

Evidence-based efforts to re-define bipolar disorders
Jules Angst, MD
Bio |Slides & Video

Proposed revisions to the concept of mixed episodes in DSM-5: the path traveled
Ellen Frank, PhD
Bio |Slides & Video

The debate on duration criteria of hypomanic episodes:  agreements, disagreements, and proposed solutions in DSM-5
Trisha Suppes, MD, PhD
Bio |Slides & Video

1:00 p.m.

Report from the National Institute on Drug Abuse

Nora D. Volkow, MD
Bio |Slides & Video
 

T1.  Current Status of Child and Adolescent Bipolar Disorder

David A. Axelson, MD (Bio) and Boris Birmaher, MD (Bio)
Slides & Video
 

T2.  Debates in Bipolar Disorder: Are Atypical Antipsychotics Overused in Bipolar Disorder                       
Moderator -- Marion Leboyer, MD, PhD

Charles L. Bowden, MD, (Bio), Trisha Suppes, MD, PhD, (Bio) and Michael E. Thase, MD (Bio)
Slides & Audio
 

Introduction
Ellen Frank, PhD
Bio | Slides & Video
 

Moderator -- Lakshmi N. Yatham, MB, FRCPC  (Bio)

John Geddes, MD, FRC Psych (Bio) and S. Nassir Ghaemi, MD, MPH (Bio)
Slides & Video
 

F5.  Family-Focused Treatment

Elizabeth L. George, PhD (Bio), Benjamin I. Goldstein, MD (Bio) and David J. Miklowitz, PhD (Bio)
Slides & Audio
 

F8.  Life Goals Collaborative Care

Mark S. Bauer, MD (Bio) and Amy M. Kilbourne, PhD, MPH (Bio)
Slides & Audio
 

Concurrent Rapid Communication Session (I and II)
 

Session I:
Chair -- Michael E. Thase, MD

Comparison between clinical characteristics of suicide attempters and non-attempters in a sample of bipolar disorder patients with
mania as first episode polarity
Lena N. Abreu, MD
Slides & Video

Cumulative morbidity and prognostic staging of illness in the Systematic Treatment Enhancement Program for
Bipolar Disorder (STEP-BD)
Michael Berk, MD, PhD
Slides & Video

CEQUEL: A Comparative Evaluation of QUEtiapine-Lamotrigine combination versus quetiapine monotherapy,
(and folic acid versus placebo) in people with bipolar depression: a 2x2 factorial randomised trial
Alexandra Gardiner, BSc (Hons)
Slides & Video

Cognitive deficits are an important determinant of functional deficits in bipolar disorder: Baseline results from LiTMUS
Dan V. Iosifescu, MD, MSc
Slides & Video

Predominance of manic episodes in the course of bipolar disorder in India
Jagadisha Thirthalli, MD
Slides & Video

Mental disorders in offspring of parents with bipolar and major depressive disorders
Martin Preisig, MD
Slides & Video

Disturbances in the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis in bipolar patients: can they explain the relationship between
depression and cognitive functioning?
Rixt Riemersma-van der Lek, MD, PhD
Slides & Video

Session II
Chair -- Etienne Sibille, PhD

Progressive neurostructural changes in patients with bipolar disorder
Caleb M. Adler, MD
Slides & Audio

Increased levels of protein oxidation in synaptosomal but not mitochondrial proteins from postmortem prefrontal cortex of 
subjects with bipolar disorder
Ana C. Andreazza, PharmD
Slides & Audio

Elevated body mass index is associated with reduced hippocampal N-acetylaspartate in first-episode mania patients 
but not in healthy subjects
David J. Bond, MD, FRCPC
Slides & Audio

Increased striatal response to positive stimuli in bipolar patients compare to controls. To what extent do bipolar I and 
bipolar II patients share this phenotype? 
Xavier Caseras, PhD, MSc
Slides & Audio

The load of short telomeres is increased and associated with lifetime number of depressive episodes in bipolar II disorder
Torbjørn Elvsåshagen, MD
Slides & Audio

The incidence of sleep apnea in bipolar disorders
Tamms F. Kelly, MD
Slides & Audio

Emotion regulation and functional magnetic resonance imaging in bipolar II depression vs. major depressive disorder 
Nathalie Vizueta, PhD
Slides & Audio

Dinner and Mogens Schou Awards

Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh

Video

Introduction

Michael E. Thase, MD (Bio)
 

Advanced Workshops

S6A.  Interpersonal and Social Rhythms Therapy

Ellen Frank, PhD (Bio) and Holly A. Swartz, MD (Bio)

Slides & Audio
 

S7A.  Family-Focused Therapy in Adolescents 

David A. Axelson, MD (Bio) and David J. Miklowitz, PhD (Bio)
Slides & Audio
 

SYMPOSIUM V – New Approaches to Somatic Treatment

Chair -- Mauricio Tohen, MD, DrPH, MBA
Bio | Slides & Video

Comparative effectiveness methodology in trials for bipolar disorder
Andrew C. Leon, PhD
Bio | Slides & Video

New insight into the neurobiology of bipolar disorder and the development of rapid-acting antidepressants and biomarkers of response
Carlos A. Zarate, MD
Bio | Slides & Video