Program

0800 – 0825 Registration and Continental Breakfast
0830 – 0840 Welcoming Remarks Susan Pigott, Vice President, Culture and Community Engagement Tony George, Clinical Director, Schizophrenia Program
0840 – 0920 Keynote Session
The Mental Health Commission of Canada: Working to Catalyze Change
David Goldbloom
Senior Medical Advisor, Public Affairs and Education, CAMH
Vice Chair, Mental Health Commission of Canada
0920 – 0930 Questions Moderator: Kwame McKenzie
0935 – 1030

Hot Topics: New thinking to rethinking

  • Atypical Antipsychotics and Glucose Dysregulation: Not Just a Weight Gain Story
  • Can the Combination of Neuroimaging and Genetics Make an Impact in the Clinical Domain?
  • Cigarettes and Schizophrenia: The Cognitive Affects
Margaret Hahn
Aristotle Voineskos
Vicky Wing
1030 – 1050 Break
1055 – 1200 Ask the Experts: What’s on Your Mind?
Moderator: David Goldbloom
Patricia Cavaganagh: Community Mental Health
Tony George: Concurrent Disorders, Tobacco
James Kennedy: Individualized Medicine and Genetics
Sean Kidd and Kwame Mckenzie: Recovery Pathways
Gary Remington: Treatment Resistance and Movement Disorders
1200 – 1300 Lunch Provided
1300 – 1400 Concurrent Sessions 2 complementary presentations
Recovery
Pathways
  1. Functional recovery in psychosis: Where are we and what more can we do?
  2. From concept to development: Promising new approaches in cognitive enhancements to support recovery in persons with psychosis
Part 1: George Foussias
Part 2: Sean Kidd
Treatment Resistance
  1. Current and promising treatments for resistant symptoms: brain stimulation techniques
  2. Where to position clozapine: Is clozapine an underutilized gold standard?
Part 1: Jeff Daskalakis
Part 2: Ofer Agid and Valerie Powell
Collaborative Management
  1. Practical strategies and techniques to keep low motivated/pre-contemplative concurrent disorder clients involved in dual recovery
  2. Promoting metabolic health in schizophrenia: Optimizing care through inter-professional intervention strategies
Part 1: Sandra Cushing and Mike Pett
Part 2: Tony Cohn and Natasha Golding
Integrating Primary and Mental Health Care
  1. Integrating mental health and addictions care into a family health team model: The vision of the West Queen West Family Health Team
  2. Serious mental illness : Everyday practice dilemmas for the primary care clinician
Part 1: Carrie Fletcher
Part 2: Jon Awerbuck
1400 – 1500 Recovery Pathways: Session repeat Part 1: George Foussias
Part 2: Sean Kidd
  Treatment Resistance: Session repeat Part 1: Jeff Daskalakis
Part 2: Ofer Agid and Valerie Powell
  Collaborative Management: Session repeat Part 1: Sandra Cushing and Mike Pett
Part 2: Tony Cohn and Natasha Golding
  Integrating Primary and Mental Health Care: Session repeat Part 1: Carrie Fletcher
Part 2: Jon Awerbuck
1515 – 1540 Closing Remarks Kwame McKenzie