The Mental Health Legal Advisors Committee presents:
Twenty Years since Rogers: Mental Health Medications and the Law Today
Friday, January 30, 2004
8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Federal Reserve Bank, Boston

8:00 Registration and Breakfast

8:30 Welcome

8:45 "Change and Progress in Medicine and the Law since Rogers in 1983"

                    Ronald Schouten, MD, JD, Director, Law and Psychiatry Service, Massachusetts General Hospital

9:15 Medications for Mental Illness

Donald C. Goff, MD, Director, Schizophrenia Program, Massachusetts General Hospital

Michael J. Ostacher, MD, MPH, Harvard Bipolar Research Program, Massachusetts General Hospital

A. Eden Evins, MD, Schizophrenia Program, Massachusetts General Hospital

Andrew A. Nierenberg, MD, Associate Director, Depression Clinical and Research Program and Medical Director, Bipolar Program, Massachusetts General Hospital

Michael E. Henry, MD, Director, Electroconvulsive Therapy Service, McLean Hospital

12:00 Special Issues Regarding Medication for Children and Adolescents

Mary Ann Johnson, RN, MS, CS, FPNP, Director of Clinical Child Program, Pediatric Psychopharmacology Research, Massachusetts General Hospital

1:00 Lunch

2:00 Recovery at One’s Own PACE: Alternative Strategies to Medication

Daniel B. Fisher, MD, PhD, Executive Director, National Empowerment Center, Lawrence; Staff Psychiatrist, Riverside Clinic, Wakefield

3:00 Mock Rogers Hearing : pretrial motions, competency, substituted judgment             David Aptaker, JD, Private Practitioner, Somerville, MA
          Judith G. Edersheim, MD, JD, Law and Psychiatry Service, Massachusetts General Hospital
          Stan Goldman, JD, Director, Mental Health Litigation Unit, Committee for Public Counsel Services
          Hon. Rosemary B. Minehan, First Justice, Wareham District Court
          Paul E. Noroian, MD, Staff Psychiatrist, MCI-Framingham
          Michael Porter, JD, Connor & Hilliard