Borderline Personality Disorder: Advances in Science and Treatment – September 29th, 2006

Borderline Personality Disorder: Advances in Science and Treatment

September 29th, 2006
The Mount Sinai Medical Center

Co-sponsored by:

 The National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder (NEABPD) in partnership with NARSAD
The Mount Sinai Medical Center (MSSM)
The New York City Chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI-NYC Metro)

Description

 A forum for professionals, family members, and consumers to better understand this complex disorder from various perspectives. Presentations focused on topics such as:

  • New Directions in BPD Causes and Treatment
  • Affective Instability (The Difference between BPD and Bi-polar Disorder)
  • Neural Circuitry Dysfunction in BPD
  • Family Research and Family and Consumer Panel
  • Understanding Self-injury and Suicidal Behavior
  • Impulsivity and Medication
  • Case Study and Treatment (Transference Focused Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy).

Conference Program

Welcome

  Perry D. Hoffman, PhD
President,
National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder (NEABPD)
Assistant Clinical Professor
Director of the DBT Programs,
The Mount Sinai School of MedicineCharlotte Moses Fischman, Esq.
President, National Alliance on Mental Illness,
New York City Metro

Introduction of Symposium and Greetings

 Eric Hollander, MD
Esther and Joseph Klingenstein Professor
and Chair, Department of Psychiatry
Director, Seaver and Greater NY
Autism Center of Excellence
Mount Sinai School of Medicine

New Directions in BPD Causes and Treatments

 Larry J. Siever, MD
Professor of Psychiatry and Vice-Chair for VA Affairs
The Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Executive Director, Mental Illness Research Education and Clinical Center (MIRECC)
Chief of the Psychiatry Program
The Bronx VA Medical Center in Bronx, New York

Affective Instability (The difference between BPD and Bi-polar Disorder)

 Harold W. Koenigsberg, MD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry
The Mount Sinai School of Medicine
James J Peters VA Medical Center

Update on Neurobiology

 Antonia S. New, MD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry
The Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Mental Illness Research Education and Clinical Center, Veterans Administration

Family Research/ Family/Consumer Panel

 Perry Hoffman, PhD
President, National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder (NEABPD)
Assistant Clinical Professor
Director of the DBT Programs,
The Mount Sinai School of MedicineDixianne Penney, Dr.P.H.
Executive Vice President & Treasurer
National Education Alliance for
Borderline Personality Disorder (NEABPD)Charlotte Moses Fischman, Esq.
President, National Alliance on Mental Illness,
New York City MetroColeen Bocuso
 
Hillary Eaton, MEd.

Suicide and Self-Injury

 Beth S. Brodsky, Ph.D.
Assistant Clinical Professor of Medical Psychology
Department of Psychiatry
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and Research Scientist
Department of Neuroscience, New York State Psychiatric Institute

Impulsivity and Medication

 Eric Hollander, MD
Esther and Joseph Klingenstein Professor and Chair, Department of Psychiatry
Director, Seaver and Greater NY Autism Center of Excellence
Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Case Study and Treatments

 Marianne Goodman MD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Director of the Mood and Personality Disorder
DBT Research Program

Transference Focused Therapy – TFT

 Frank E. Yeomans, M.D., Ph.D.
Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Director of Training, Personality Disorders Institute

Dialectical Behavior Therapy – DBT

 Christine E. Foertsch, Ph.D.
Behavioral Technology Transfer Group
and Private Practice, New York City

Closing Remarks

 Patricia Woodward, MAT
Secretary, National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder
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