BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
Borderline Personality Disorder, National Education Alliance for
 

Borderline Personality Disorder: Advances in Science and Treatment

September 29th, 2006
The Mount Sinai Medical Center

 
  Co-sponsored by:
The National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder (NEA-BPD) in partnership with NARSAD
The Mount Sinai Medical Center (MSSM)
The New York City Chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI-NYC Metro)
 
  Description A forum for professionals, family members, and consumers to better understand this complex disorder from various perspectives. Presentations focused on topics such as:
New Directions in BPD Causes and Treatment
Affective Instability (The Difference between BPD and Bi-polar Disorder)
Neural Circuitry Dysfunction in BPD
Family Research and Family and Consumer Panel
Understanding Self-injury and Suicidal Behavior
Impulsivity and Medication
Case Study and Treatment (Transference Focused Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy).
   
 
   
 
       
  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)
 
Charlotte Moses Fischman, Esq.
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
 


 
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