International Experts Headline neuroscienceCME Webcast: 'Closing the Global Performance Gap in Managing Major Depressive Disorder and Comorbid Anxiety' Premieres July 23
CME Outfitters announces a new neuroscienceCME webcast based on a live presentation at the 2nd International Congress of Biological Psychiatry in Santiago, Chile. Premiering Monday, July 23, 2007, this certified CME activity will provide evidence-based educational information regarding the global prevalence, recognition, and management of depression with comorbid anxiety.
Rockville, MD (PRWEB) July 23, 2007 -- CME Outfitters, LLC, an independent accredited provider of multidisciplinary medical education programming and related healthcare communications services, is pleased to announce an evidence-based neuroscienceCME webcast titled "Closing the Global Performance Gap in Managing Major Depressive Disorder and Comorbid Anxiety."
This one-hour, online CME activity is based on the live symposium of the same name that was delivered by leading international experts at the 2nd International Congress of Biological Psychiatry in Santiago, Chile.
Premiering Monday, July 23, 2007, the activity will provide evidence-based educational information regarding the global prevalence, recognition, and management of depression with comorbid anxiety. There is no fee to participate or receive CME credit for this activity. Visit the activity details page at http://www.neuroscienceCME.com/cmea.asp?ID=248 for more information.
Statement of Need:
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is now the fourth-leading cause of the global disease burden and the leading cause of disability worldwide; WHO expects that depression will be the second leading cause of disability after heart disease by 2020. Cost-effective interventions are available, but do not often reach those who need them because of a number of overwhelming challenges in low-resource settings--including lack of facilities and trained mental health personnel, questions about effective population-based screening, and the general stigma surrounding mental disorders. Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is a chronic, disabling disorder associated with substantial personal, societal, and economic costs. Co-existing GAD in depressed patients may worsen the outcome by increasing the rates of suicide, worsening overall symptoms, conferring a poorer response to treatment, increasing the number of medically unexplained symptoms, and increasing functional disability. The comorbidity of GAD with major depressive episode (MDE) has been of special interest because of the high level of comorbidity and the status of MDE as one of the most burdensome disorders worldwide. In this CME activity, the faculty experts will review the importance of early recognition of MDD and comorbid anxiety and focus on innovative strategies to manage these challenging comorbidities in patients from both developed and developing countries.
Moderator:
Siegfried Kasper, MD
Professor of Psychiatry
Chairman, Department of General Psychiatry
Medical University of Vienna
Vienna, Austria
Faculty:
Pedro L. Delgado, MD
Dielmann Distinguished Chair in Psychiatry
Professor and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry
Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Professionalism
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
San Antonio, TX
Julio Licinio, MD
Professor and Chairman
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine
University of Miami
Miami, FL
Learning Objectives:
At the end of this CE activity, participants should be able to:
- Identify three patient barriers that contribute to the performance gap noted by the World Health Organization.
- Provide clinicians with tools and strategies to improve the delivery of cost-effective interventions for patients with comorbid anxiety and depression.
- Implement innovative and novel teaching approaches to improve the global performance gap in the diagnosis and management of depression and comorbid anxiety.
Target Audience:
Physicians, especially psychiatrists, and other healthcare professionals with an interest in mental health.
Commercial Support:
CME Outfitters, LLC, gratefully acknowledges an educational grant from Wyeth Pharmaceuticals in support of this CE activity.
Credit Information:
CME Credit (Physicians):
CME Outfitters, LLC, is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. CME Outfitters, LLC, designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Note to Physician Assistants: AAPA accepts Category I credit from AOACCME, Prescribed credit from AAFP, and AMA Category I CME credit for the PRA from organizations accredited by ACCME.
Successful completion of this CME activity includes participating in the webcast, reviewing the course materials, and following the instructions below by July 16, 2008:
To complete your credit request form, activity evaluation, and post-test online (80% pass rate required), and print your certificate immediately, please visit www.neuroscienceCME.com and click on the Testing/Certification link under the Resources tab (requires free account activation).
There is no fee for participation in this activity. The estimated time for completion is 60 minutes.
About CME Outfitters:
CME Outfitters develops and distributes live, recorded, print, and web-based educational activities to thousands of clinicians each year and offers expert accreditation services for non-accredited organizations. For a complete catalog of certified activities, please visit http://www.cmeoutfitters.com, http://www.neuroscienceCME.com, or call 877.CME.PROS (877.263.7767).
About neuroscienceCME:
neuroscienceCME.com is the premier web portal serving clinicians, educators, and researchers in the neurosciences. Launched in October 2006, neuroscienceCME.com was custom designed to fill an identified gap in online resources for professionals around the world who are practicing in areas related to psychiatry, sleep disorders, addiction and substance abuse, ADHD, and other areas related to brain function. The site's primary mission is to be the professional's central forum for accessing, debating, synthesizing, and implementing the latest findings and best practices in the neurosciences.
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CME Outfitters, LLC
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