International College of Geriatric Psychoneuropharmacology
5^th Annual Meeting
Pittsburgh, USA
November 2 - 5, 2005
 

Important Deadline Date:

September 23, 2005

Deadline for submitting abstracts for accepted panels
Deadline for submitting abstracts for posters
Submit abstracts here: http://icgp.org/abstractsubmissionform.asp

Register for the conference here: http://icgp.org/regform.asp
 

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM
 

Wednesday, November 2

8:00 am - 5:00 pm:  Training Day for Junior Investigators

“Research Career Development”
Chair:  Barry Lebowitz

Morning

·  Welcome and Introductions:  Barry Lebowitz
·  Junior Investigator presentations and discussion

Afternoon

·  Scientific autobiography:  Shigeto Yamawaki
·  Issues for non-U.S. trainees:  Fouzia Laghrissi Thode
·  Mentoring:  Charles Reynolds
·  Publication strategies:  Dilip Jeste
·  International resources for trainees:  Maureen Halpain
·  General discussion
 

Thursday, November 3

8:00 am - 10:00 am:  President’s Plenary Session

“Treatment-Resistance in Late Life Depression: New Understanding, New Approaches” 
Chair:  Charles Reynolds (USA)
Speakers: Mary Amanda Dew (USA), Katalin Szanto (USA), Alastair Flint (Canada), George Alexopoulos (USA)
 

10:15 am - 12:15 pm:  Concurrent Panel Sessions

“Estrogen and the Cholinergic System in the Aging Brain: The Good, the Bad, and the Questions”
Chair:  Paul Newhouse (USA); Co-chair: Jenny Rusted (UK)
Speakers:  Robert Gibbs (USA), Barbara Sherwin (Canada), Jenny Rusted (UK), Paul Newhouse (USA) 

·  “The Spectrum of Parkinson’s Disease Dementia and Dementia with Lewy Bodies” 
Chair:  Urs Mosimann (UK); Co-chair: Tanis Ferman (USA)
Speakers: Urs Mosimann (UK), Dag Aarsland (Norway), Tanis Ferman (USA), John O’Brien (UK)
 

1:30 pm - 3:30 pm:  Concurrent Panel Sessions

“Bipolar Disorder in Late Life: New Territory”
Chair:  Robert Young (USA); Co-chair: Benoit Mulsant (USA)
Speakers: Benoit Mulsant (USA), Robert Young (USA), John Beyer (USA), Martha Sajatovic (USA)

“New Horizons in Dementia Treatment”
Chair:  Paul Francis (UK)
Speakers:  Jill Rasmussen (UK), Paul Francis (UK), Menelas Pangalos (USA), Merouane Bencherif  (USA)
 

3:45 pm - 5:45 pm:  Concurrent Panel Sessions

“Sleep Problems in the Elderly”
Chair:  Shigeto Yamawaki (Japan)
Speakers: Jennifer Martin (USA), Jun Horiguchi (Japan), Byoung Hoon Oh (Korea), Daniel Buysse (USA)

“The Neurobiology of Late-Life Depression: Integrating Neuroimaging and Neuropathological Studies”
Chair: Gwenn Smith (USA)
Speakers:  Robert Sweet (USA), Gwenn Smith (USA), Adrian Lloyd (UK), Alan Thomas (UK)
 

Evening:  Reception - Warhol Museum
 

Friday, November 4

8:00 am - 10:00am:  Teaching Day

“Cognitive Neuroscience of Late-Life Depression”
Chair:  Howard Aizenstein (USA)
Speakers:  Howard Aizenstein (USA), Meryl Butters (USA), John O’Brien (UK), Barbara Sahakian (UK)
 

10:15 am - 11:15 am:  Plenary Lecture

"Successful Aging: A Bio-psycho-social Perspective"
Dilip V. Jeste (USA)
 

11:15 am - 12:15 pm:  Business Meeting
 

1:30 pm - 3:30 pm:  Concurrent Panel Sessions

“Metabolic Aspects of Alzheimer’s Disease”
Chair:  Jacobo Mintzer (USA)
Speakers:  David Bachman (USA), Constantine Lyketsos (USA), Lotta Granholm-Bentley (USA), Bengt Winblad (Sweden)

“Study of the Pharmacotherapy of Psychotic Depression (STOP-PD): Background, Design Choices, Early Data”
Chair:  Barnett Meyers (USA); Co-chair: Alastair Flint (Canada)
Speakers: Anthony Rothschild (USA), Benoit Mulsant (USA), Barnett Meyers (USA), Alastair Flint (Canada)
 

3:45 pm - 5:45 pm: Concurrent Panel Sessions

“Detection and Treatment of Dementia Under Different Settings : Here and Elsewhere”
Chair:  Hochang Benjamin Lee (USA)
Speakers: Constantine Lyketsos (USA), Ira Katz (USA), Byoung Hoon Oh (Korea), Peter Rabins (USA)
Discussant: Hugh Hendrie (USA)

“Pharmacological Treatment of Neuropsychiatric Features in Parkinson’s Disease”
Chair:  Dag Aarsland (Norway)
Speakers:  Dag Aarsland (Norway), Dan Weintraub (USA), Clive Ballard (USA), Jamie Kulisevsky (Spain)
 

5:45 pm - 7:30 pm:  Poster Session / Wine and Cheese
 

Saturday, November 5

8:00 am - 10:00am:  Concurrent Panel Sessions

“Novel Targets of Mood Stabilizer Action in Neurodegenerative Disorders”
Chair:  Rebekah Loy (USA)
Speakers:  Saleem Ismail (USA), De-Maw Chuang (USA), Trevor Young (Canada), Rebekah Loy (USA)

"Biomarkers in Alzheimer’s Disease: Early Prognostic, Diagnostic and Clinical Findings”
Chair: George Zubenko (USA); Co-chair: Trey Sunderland (USA)
Speakers:  William Klunk (USA), Mony DeLeon (USA), Niels Andreasen (Sweden), George Zubenko (USA)
 

10:15 am - 12:15pm:  Concurrent Panel Sessions

“Conflict of Interest in Alzheimer’s Disease Trials: The Alzheimer’s Disease Cooperative Study”
Chair:  Dan Marson (USA); Co-chair: Peter Whitehouse (USA)
Speakers:  Dan Marson (USA), Peter Whitehouse (USA), Scott Kim (USA), Serge Gauthier (Canada)

“Vascular Dementia”
Chair:  Michael Davidson (Israel)
Speakers: Oscar Lopez (USA), Michael Davidson (Israel), Alexander  Auchus (USA)
 

12:15 pm - 1:15pm:  Distinguished Scientist Award Lecture

“Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease: A Personal Perspective”
Leon Thal (USA)
 

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