- Massachusetts General Hospital Academy
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The Massachusetts General Hospital Academy is an educational organization for physicians, nurses, specialists, and other health professionals who diagnose, treat and care for patients across a variety of therapeutic areas, like cardiology, neurology, oncology and more. It is directly organized and managed by the Department of Postgraduate Education at Massachusetts General Hospital, which is owned by Partners HealthCare, the largest healthcare provider in Massachusetts.
The Academy organizes and produces CME activities—like one-day live symposia and online webcasts -- that educate attendees about effective clinical practice for treating health disorders, like fibromyalgia and dementia.
Contents
Locations
2008 Live Event Locations
September 27----New Perspectives on Fibromyalgia and Related Illnesses2008 Casecasts
October 1----Dementia Casecast
October 8----Dementia Casecast
October 15----Fibromyalgia CasecastFaculty/Staff
Faculty for Academy activities and programs come from within Massachusetts General Hospital as well as other prominent educational institutions like Yale University and Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
Leadership of the Academy includes:
- Robert J. Birnbaum, MD, PhD
Dr. Birnbaum is the Director of the Division of Postgraduate Education in the Psychiatry Department at Massachusetts General Hospital, an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and has been in clinical practice since 1989 providing clinical consultation services. Dr. Birnbaum received his medical and research doctoral degrees from Boston University School of Medicine and Boston University's Division of Graduate Medical and Dental Sciences. His PhD research was in protein biochemistry elucidating the role of calcium regulation in stimulus response coupling in neural and smooth muscle tissue. His post-doctoral research in molecular neurobiology was completed at Harvard Medical School's Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry under the supervision of Dr. Steven E. Hyman.
Dr. Birnbaum was awarded Ethel Dupont-Warren Foundation, Dana Neuroscience Foundation, and Scottish Rite Schizophrenia Research Grants to pursue his post-doctoral research investigating the induction of immediate early genes in mouse striatum and nucleus accumbens by psychotropic agents. His psychiatry residency training was completed at Massachusetts General Hospital, as was his chief residency in psychopharmacology. He has also received additional post-doctoral training and supervision in psychodynamic, psychoanalytic, and cognitive behavioral modalities of psychotherapy.
He was the Director of Clinical Research and Psychopharmacology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center for 10 years and Senior Psychiatric Administrator to the CareGroup/Lahey Behavioral Health Care System. He was also the Coordinator in Charge of the Psychiatric Applications of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS), Laboratory for Magnetic Brain Stimulation, at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Dr. Birnbaum has been involved in numerous psychopharmacologic clinical trials investigating the treatment of mood, anxiety and psychotic disorders.
- Timothy J. Petersen, PhD
Dr. Petersen is Associate Director of the Division of Postgraduate Education in the Psychiatry Department at Massachusetts General Hospital, and spearheads development and implementation of continuing medical education programs delivered by MGH faculty to worldwide providers. He is the author or co-author of over 60 scholarly articles published in peer-reviewed scientific journals, numerous book chapters, and books.
Dr. Petersen served as a cognitive therapist and project coordinator for the seminal NIH Sequential Alternatives to Relieve Depression (STAR*D) investigation[1] and was the principal investigator for an investigation sponsored by a Young Investigator Grant received from the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD).[2] In 2002, he was awarded the New Investigator Award by the NIH New Clinical Drug Evaluation Unit.
Dr. Petersen's clinical specialty is cognitive behaviorally based interventions for difficult-to-treat mood disorders. As part of his research work, he has been involved in developing various evidence-based psychotherapy treatment manuals. Dr. Petersen is active in providing clinical and research supervision to MGH psychology interns and psychiatry residents, and has mentored several undergraduate and graduate students during clinical and research practical placements.
Website
External links
- Massachusetts General Hospital
- Massachusetts General Hospital Psychiatry Academy
- Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Psychiatry
References
- ^ Journal of Psychiatric Research, Volume 40, Issue 1, February 2006, Pages 59-69 [1]
- ^ NARSAD, Young Investigator Grant list, 2001
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