2008 WPA Spring Meeting “Hot Topics” with Resnick,
Goodwin and Kraus April 18-19, 2008
Jerry Halverson, MD
Program Chair
Join your friends and colleagues at the Wisconsin Psychiatric Association’s spring 2008 meeting which will be held on April 18-19, 2008 at the Intercontinental Hotel in Milwaukee. We have worked to arrange a program for our membership and all mental health professionals that will be both fascinating and will inform your practice. We arranged for two internationally known lecturers to come to Milwaukee and spend some quality time with our membership at our spring meeting.
The program is cleverly titled “Hot Topics in Psychiatry” and the day and a half will be split into two “topics”: “Risk Management: Suicidality, Violence and Malingering” on Friday and “Bipolar Disorder: Challenges in Diagnosis and Treatment Across the Lifespan” on Saturday. As you will see, this is a program with a “generic name”, but plenty of “name brand” education.
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Phillip J. Resnick MD
Past President of the American Academy of Psychiatry and Law
Director, Division of Forensic Psychiatry
Department of Psychiatry
Case Western Reserve School of Medicine |
Frederick K. Goodwin, MD
Former director of NIMH
Professor of Psychiatry
Director, Psychopharmacology Research Center
Director, Center on Neuroscience, Medical Progress and Society
George Washington University Medical Center Washington, DC |
Friday April 28, 2008 “Risk Management: Suicidality, Violence and Malingering”: featuring Dr. Resnick and the Dahmer Panel.
The first day of the meeting will be an opportunity to learn from world renowned forensic psychiatrist Phillip J. Resnick, MD. Dr. Resnick is known for his forensic expertise and his involvement in many of the United States most infamous legal cases of the past several years including the Andrea Yates, Unabomber, and Scott Peterson cases. We arranged this “hot topic” as the Joint Commission has placed a high priority on assessing suicidality and violence and psychiatry will be expected to take the lead in many multispecialty settings.
The increasing complexity and legalities of the world that we are practicing in puts an even larger onus on the psychiatrist to “get it right” when evaluating dangerousness. The clinical interview is the most powerful technique that we have to give us this type of information. We brought in Dr. Resnick to help us improve and hone our clinical interviewing skills by teaching us best practices and ways to avoid malpractice troubles with practical strategies for assessing your patients for potential for suicide and violence as well as evaluating for malingered mental illness.
Per Dr. Resnick’s request, each presentation is seventy five minutes long giving him adequate time to communicate “the important stuff”. These presentations will seem much shorter than seventy minutes as he is known to make these presentations fast paced, humorous and filled with essential information. These presentations are shorter versions of his wildly successful workshops that he presents at the APA annual meetings.
After the membership lunch, we will explore in detail one of the most well known cases that Dr. Resnick has consulted on, the Jeffrey Dahmer case. We will discuss the case as well as the prediction of this type of violence and psychopathy in our patients. In what should be a fascinating and very unique gathering, a “Dahmer reunion” of sorts, we will have many local professionals with first hand knowledge of the Dahmer case discuss their perspectives on the case individually and then together in what should be a memorable panel discussion of what we have learned from the case, now almost twenty years later. The panelists will include Dr. Resnick and his insights on the case as well as
Neil Purtell – a retired FBI agent involved in the investigation of the case and who personally interrogated Dahmer, he will discuss the case from a law enforcement perspective
Kenneth Smail, PhD – A forensic psychologist who interviewed Dahmer at length, and was arguably able to get the most complete psychological profile of Jeffrey Dahmer.
E. Michael McCann, JD – Milwaukee’s long time District Attorney who successfully prosecuted Dahmer will discuss his experiences prosecuting the case and some of the legal perspectives such as the not guilty by reason of insanity plea.
Kenneth Robbins, MD – A forensic psychiatrist who will moderate the panel and discuss his experience interviewing Dahmer as well as interviewing his murderer Christopher Scarver.
Saturday:“Bipolar Disorder: Challenges in Diagnosis and Treatment Across the Lifespan”
The second day of the meeting will be devoted to the next “hot topic”: bipolar disorder. Member surveys have indicated a desire to have programming on bipolar disorder. For this topic, we asked the man who literally wrote the book on bipolar disorder, Frederick K. Goodwin, MD to come to Wisconsin to update us on bipolar disorder. His recent encyclopedic text “Manic Depressive Illness”, sets a new standard for Bipolar textbooks. Dr. Goodwin is an internationally known researcher, psychopharmacologist and former director of NIMH. He was the host of NPR’s “The Infinite Mind” for many years and continues to guest host the program.
On Saturday, he will be discussing the treatment of bipolar disorder and how the old medications fit in with the new medications in the optimum treatment of bipolar disorder. He will also teach us how to diagnose and treat breakthrough depression in bipolar, which for most is the predominant state. We will then ask Louis Kraus, MD a child psychiatrist from Rush University in Chicago to discuss the challenge of making the diagnosis of bipolar disorder in children, and he will give his opinion that it is possibly over diagnosed. I expect a lively discussion to follow Dr. Kraus’ presentation.
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Dr. Kraus is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and the Section Chief for Child Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry. |
We will wrap up the conference an opportunity to ask questions and obtain expert opinion and consultation during a panel on bipolar disorder treatment and diagnosis challenges across the lifespan. The panel will consist of Dr. Goodwin and Dr. Kraus, as well as local preeminent psychopharmacologist Harold Harsch, MD.
The programming will wrap up around noon, which leaves plenty of time for you and your family to enjoy downtown Milwaukee on a glorious spring weekend. Its Gallery Night and Day at the Third Ward! Take your kids to “A Year with Frog and Toad” at the Marcus Center or “My Little Pony Live: The World’s Biggest Tea Party” at the Milwaukee Theater or your significant other to the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Saturday Night at the Marcus Center! (http://www.marcuscenter.org, www.milwaukeetheatre.com)
The venue for the meeting this year is the Intercontinental Hotel in the heart of downtown Milwaukee. http://www.intercontinentalmilwaukee.com/ You may have known the Intercontinental when it was the Wyndham. It was renovated in 2006 and if you haven’t been there, you will likely not recognize it. The Intercontinental has a striking contemporary/ modern décor and has beautiful, state of the art meeting rooms with more than adequate sound proofing.
“Hot Topics in Psychiatry” promises to be an interesting and clinically relevant meeting. It will also be an opportunity to enjoy the collegiality that the WPA is known for. Clearly, this will be the “hottest” venue for clinically relevant psychiatry CME in April, so come to Milwaukee and bring a colleague or two and spend some time with friends and learn something that will change your clinical practice.
Additional details will be contained in the final program and registration materials which will be sent out via mail in February 2008, and at the Wisconsin Psychiatric Association Website: www.thewpa.org
Friday-
AM: The Clinical Evaluation of Dangerousness and Malingered Psychiatric Illness
0800- Welcome and Introduction. Program Chair Jerry Halverson, MD
0800-0915 Phillip Resnick, MD: Suicide Risk Assessment and Malpractice Avoidance
915-1030 Phillip Resnick, MD: Violence Risk Assessment
1030-1045 Break
1045-1200 Phillip Resnick, MD: The Detection of Malingered Psychiatric Illness
1200-1315 Lunch
PM: The Mind of the Serial Killer: Lessons from the Jeffrey Dahmer Case
1315-1345: Neil Purtell- Overview of the Jeffrey Dahmer Case
1345-1415: Ken Smail, PhD- Jeffrey Dahmer- History and Psychology
1415-1445: E Michael McCann- “A Prosecutor's Probe of the Labrynthian Mind of a Necrophilac Serial Slayer”
1445- 1500 Break
1500- 1515: Introduction to the panel and personal observations: Ken Robbins, MD
1515-1615: Panel Discussion with Ken Robbins, MD as Moderator and McCann, Purtell, Smail panel members and Resnick as Discussant.
Saturday- Bipolar: Challenges in Diagnosis and Treatment
0800 Welcome and Introduction: Program Chair. Jerry Halverson, MD
800-900 Frederick Goodwin, MD: Bipolar Challenge #1 : Treatment “Integrating the Tried and True with the New in the Management of Bipolar Disorder”
900-1000 Louis Kraus, MD: Bipolar Challenge #2 : Diagnosis of Childhood Bipolar Disorder “Childhood Bipolar Disorder Diagnostic Controversies”
1000-1015 Break
1015-1115 Frederick Goodwin, MD: Bipolar Challenge #3 Bipolar Depression “Recognizing and Treating Breakthrough Depression in Bipolar Disorder”
1115-1200 Panel with Dr. Goodwin/ Dr. Kraus- “Recognizing and Treating Bipolar Disorder/ Integrating New and Old Treatments in Bipolar Across the Lifespan” moderated by Harold Harsch |
