Sunday August 24

8:00 a.m.

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OPENING SESSION

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WELCOMES

Jon Streltzer, Chair, Organizing Committee

Naleen Andrade.

Proessor and Chair, Department of Psychiatry, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii

Tatjana Sivik

President, International College of Psychosomatic Medicine

8:30 a.m.

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PLENARY SESSION

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CHAIRS:  T SIVIK; G CHRISTODOULOU

DAVID SPIEGEL

Juck, Lulu and Sam  Willson Professor and Associate Chair,

Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences

Stanford Unversity School of Medicine

Stanford, USA

Traumatic Stress and Medical Illness: Lessons from 9/11

Lisa Butler, Ph.D., Janine Giese-Davis, Ph.D. Jay Azarow, Ph.D.

9:15 a.m.

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MICHAEL MEANEY

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Professor of Psychiatry, Neurology and Neurosurgery

McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Maternal care permanently alters DNA structure and thus programs gene expression in brain regions that regulate stress responses

10:00 a.m.

Break

10:15 a.m. to

From 10:15 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Major Symposia will take place in 8 different meeting rooms

12:30 p.m.

Kohala 1

39 Serotonergic Mechanisms in Eating Disorders

(Chair)M H EBERT; W H KAYE, J E MITCHELL, H GWIRTSMAN, (Discussant) M H EBERT

Kohala 2

32 Mood and Perimenopause

(Chair) J  ALEXANDER; D  THOMPSON, L  DENNERSTEIN, G  BACHMAN, (Discussant) T PERLSTEIN

King's 1

18 Functional illness (somatization) in primary care - the FIP study.  Results from a multidisciplinary Danish study

(Chair) P  FINK; F  OLESEN, M  ROSENDAL, T  TOFT, K S CHRISTENSEN, L  FROSTHOLM, T  DALSGAARD, (Discussant) W  KATON

Queen's 4

36 Culture and Psychotherapy: Mind and Body

(Chair) J  WEN; J  HSU (CO-CHAIR), K  NAKAMURA, W  TSENG, L  QUIYUN, S  TAKAHASHI, (Discussant) S P KIM

Kohala 3

PANEL ON ASSISTED SUICIDE: REQUESTS TO DIE: WHAT ARE THEY, WHY ARE THEY, WHAT SHOULD WE DO WITH THEM?

P R MUSKIN; T  AKECHI; Y KURIHARA; M BANNINK; S  DOBSCHA; B C LEE;

King's 3

24 The Long-Term Impact of Chronic Stress on Health: Any Help from Allostatic Load?

(Chair) J E FISCHER; B M KUDIELKA, R  VON KANEL, J C FISCHER, K E FREEDLAND, (Discussant) J TAKESHITA

Queen's 6

38 Occupational Psychiatry: A Growth Area For Psychosomatic Medicine

(Chair) T  SENSKY; T  SIVIK, M  LINDEN, K  HOLLAND-ELLIOT, N  GLOZIER, (Discussant), D MATTHEWS

King's 2

7 Psychiatry And Bioethics

(Chair) M A COHEN; J M BOSTWICK, D T CHEN, M S LEDERBERG, O S SURMAN, (Discussant) M A COHEN

2:00 p.m. to

From 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Theme Sessions and Workshops will take place in 8 different meeting rooms

4:00 p.m.

4:10 p.m. to

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SPECIAL LECTURE We Need A Theory of Psychosomatic Medicine.

4:55 P.M.

M A Schwartz    Discussant: O Doerr-Zegers

4:55 p.m. to

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Presidential Address: T SIVIK The Role of Psychosomatic Medicine in a rapidly Changing World. Chair: D Lipsitt

5:30 P.M.