Conference Program

Welcome

Perry D. Hoffman, PhD

President, National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder (NEA-BPD)

Assistant Clinical Professor

Director of the DBT Programs,

The Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Charlotte Moses Fischman, Esq.

President, National Alliance on Mental Illness,

New York City Metro

Introduction of Symposium and Greetings

Eric Hollander, MD

Esther and Joseph Klingenstein Professor

and Chair, Department of Psychiatry

Director, Seaver and Greater NY

Autism Center of Excellence

Mount Sinai School of Medicine

New Directions in BPD Causes and Treatments

Larry J. Siever, MD

Professor of Psychiatry and Vice-Chair for VA Affairs

The Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Executive Director, Mental Illness Research Education and Clinical Center (MIRECC)

Chief of the Psychiatry Program

The Bronx VA Medical Center in Bronx, New York

Affective Instability (The difference between BPD and Bi-polar Disorder)

Harold W. Koenigsberg, MD

Associate Professor of Psychiatry

The Mount Sinai School of Medicine

James J Peters VA Medical Center

Update on Neurobiology

Antonia S. New, MD

Associate Professor of Psychiatry

The  Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Mental Illness Research Education and Clinical Center, Veterans Administration

Family Research/ Family/Consumer Panel

Perry Hoffman, PhD

President, National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder (NEA-BPD)

Assistant Clinical Professor

Director of the DBT Programs,

The Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Dixianne Penney, Dr.P.H.

Executive Vice President & Treasurer

National Education Alliance for

Borderline Personality Disorder (NEA-BPD)

President, National Alliance on Mental Illness,

New York City Metro

Coleen Bocuso

Hillary Eaton, MEd.

Suicide and Self-Injury

Beth S. Brodsky, Ph.D.

Assistant Clinical Professor of Medical Psychology

Department of Psychiatry

Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and Research Scientist

Department of Neuroscience, New York State Psychiatric Institute

Impulsivity and Medication

Eric Hollander, MD

Esther and Joseph Klingenstein Professor and Chair, Department of Psychiatry

Director, Seaver and Greater NY Autism Center of Excellence

Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Case Study and Treatments

Marianne Goodman MD

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry

Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Director of the Mood and Personality Disorder

DBT Research Program

Transference Focused Therapy – TFT

Frank E. Yeomans, M.D., Ph.D.

Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry

Weill Medical College of Cornell University

Director of Training, Personality Disorders Institute

Dialectical Behavior Therapy – DBT

Christine E. Foertsch, Ph.D.

Behavioral Technology Transfer Group

and Private Practice, New York City

Closing Remarks

Patricia Woodward, MAT

Secretary, National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder