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Depression Bipolar Support Alliance

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DBSA NCA Speaker events

Award-winning, innovative and highly recognized leaders in the field of mood disorders speak and present to our DBSA NCA group each year.

The speaker events replace the regular 7:30pm support group meeting and sometimes a shorter support group meeting is held at 6:30pm before the event.

All programs are free and open to the public.

Programs begin at 7:30. Voluntary donations are encouraged. Federal employees or members of the military can contribute to National DBSA through the Combined Federal Campaign, DBSA's CFC code is 12000.

DBSA NCA Speaker events (list on right) are held at (see map below):

George Washington University Hospital Auditorium Lower Level
900 23rd Street, Washington DC
Next to Foggy Bottom Metro
Paid Parking: 22nd I (eye)

If you would like to recommend a speaker for the program, please forward their contact info to hello@dbsanca.org.

(Click here for map/driving directions to GWU Hospital)

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2008

Dr. Jacobsen
Psychopharmacology for Mood Disorders

 

Dr. David Goldstein
Various Psychotherapy Modalities for Mood Disorders

 

Kay Redfield Jamison, Ph.D.

Personal and Professional Perspectives on Biplar Illness

 

2007

Mayadi Akil MD
Advances in Depression Research: A Report from NIMH

 

2006

Frederick Goodwin MD
Long-term Stabilization of Bipolar Disorder: Integrating the old with the new

 

Mitchell Kling MD
Systemic Manifestations of Major Depressive Disorder

 

 

DBSA NCA Speaker Program
“Mood Disorders”

October 7, 2010

Dr. Thomas Insel




Dr. Thomas Insel is the Director of the National Institute of Mental Health.



About DBSA NCA Speaker events

Award-winning, innovative and highly recognized leaders in the field of mood disorders speak and present to our DBSA NCA group each year.

The speaker events replace the regular 7:30pm support group meeting and sometimes a shorter support group meeting is held at 6:30pm before the event.

All programs are free and open to the public.

Programs begin at 7:30. Voluntary donations are encouraged. Federal employees or members of the military can contribute to National DBSA through the Combined Federal Campaign, DBSA's CFC code is 0581.

DBSA NCA Speaker events are held at :

George Washington University Hospital Auditorium
Lower Level
900 23rd Street, Washington DC
Next to Foggy Bottom Metro

Paid Parking: 22nd I (eye)

If you would like to recommend a speaker for the program, please forward their contact info to hello@dbsanca.org.

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DBSA NCA Speaker Program

""An Update on Treatment and Research Directions in Bipolar Disorder""
Thursday, Mar 31, 2011 7:30PM

Carlos Zarate, MD
Chief of Experimental Therapeutics
Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program
National Institute of Mental Health
Bethesda, Maryland




Paperback copies of Manic Depressive Illness: Bipolar Disorders and Recurrent Depression, Second Edition, by Kay Redfield Jamison, Ph.D. and Frederick K. Goodwin, M.D. will be on sale that evening. A set of Volumes I and II is priced at $36.00 with Volume II alone selling for $18.00. Part of the proceeds will help fund our chapter's various programs. Cash and checks will be accepted.

Free and Open to the Public with Voluntary Contributions Encouraged


About DBSA NCA Speaker events

Award-winning, innovative and highly recognized leaders in the field of mood disorders speak and present to our DBSA NCA group each year.

The speaker events replace the regular 7:30pm support group meeting and sometimes a shorter support group meeting is held at 6:30pm before the event.

All programs are free and open to the public.

Programs begin at 7:30. Voluntary donations are encouraged. Federal employees or members of the military can contribute to National DBSA through the Combined Federal Campaign, DBSA's CFC code is 0581.

DBSA NCA Speaker events are held at :

George Washington University Hospital Auditorium
Lower Level
900 23rd Street, Washington DC
Next to Foggy Bottom Metro

Paid Parking: 22nd I (eye)

If you would like to recommend a speaker for the program, please forward their contact info to hello@dbsanca.org.

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