The Mental Health Legal Advisors Committee presents:

Mood and Anxiety Disorders in the Courtroom

Monday, June 2, 2003
8:30AM - 5:00PM
Suffolk University Law School

8:00 Registration and Breakfast

8:30 Welcome

8:45 Bipolar Disorder:
Common misunderstandings of the illness
Gary S. Sachs, MD, Founder and Director, Harvard Bipolar Research Program, Massachusetts General Hospital. Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School.

Special issues for children and adolescents
Jefferson B. Prince, MD, Director of Child Psychiatry, Pediatric and Adult Psychopharmacology, ;North Shore Medical Center. Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School.

10:30     Anxiety Disorder:
Symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment
Mark H. Pollack, MD, Director, Center for Anxiety and Traumatic Stress Related Disorders, Massachusetts General Hospital. Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School.

Topics of importance for children and adolescents
Aude I. Henin, PhD, Pediatric Psychopharmacology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital. Instructor in Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School.

12:30 Lunch (on your own)

1:30 Interviewing Techniques: Beyond the Basics
Thomas G. Gutheil, MD, Co-Director, Program in Psychiatry and the Law, Massachusetts Mental Health Center. Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School.
Karen Talley, JD, Staff Attorney, Disability Law Center.

 3:15 Treatment Compliance: A Complexity of Issues
Jonathan Delman, JD, MPH, Executive Director, Consumer Quality Initiatives, Inc. Consumer.
Debra A. Pinals, MD, Director, Forensic Psychiatry Education and Forensic Evaluation Services, Law and Psychiatry Program, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester. Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical School.
Honorable Maurice H. Richardson, JD, (Ret.), Assistant Professor, Law and Psychiatry Program, University of Massachusetts Medical School.
Robert H. Weber, JD, Attorney, Weber & Baum.