8:00 am

Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:45 am 

Welcome 

Perry D. Hoffman, PhD, President NEA-BPD

9:00 am              

What is it? Overview of Borderline Personality Disorder

Joel Paris, MD, McGill University

9:45 am   

Risk of suicidal behaviour
Paul S. Links, MD, St. Michael's Hospital

10:30 am

Break

10:45 am 

What are we doing to treat it? Treatment: Therapy / Dialectical Behavior
Shelley McMain, PhD, The Center for Addiction and Mental Health

11:30 am

What are we doing to treat it? Medication
Kenneth R. Silk, MD, University of Michigan

12:30 pm

 Lunch

1:30 pm  

How do we live with it? Family and Consumer Perspectives Panel
Perry D. Hoffman, PhD; Rita Mohan, PHN, MA; Nicola Whipp, BA;Susan Roach, MSW; Patricia Woodward, MAT 

 3:00 am    

Break

3:15 pm 

What is new in research?
Kenneth Levy, PhD, City University of New York

4:15 pm 

Hope: The community perspective
Stephen Webb, MD, St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton
Debra E. Coates, Executive Director, WiseMind

 5:00 pm    

Adjourn