26th Annual Mood Disorders Research/Education Symposium

The Many Faces of Depression

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Thomas B. Turner Building
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
729 Rutland Avenue
Baltimore, Maryland 21205

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For more information about the symposium and to register, call 410-502-9634 or go to:

http://www.hopkinscme.edu/CourseDetail.aspx/80026959

ACTIVITY DIRECTOR

Karen Swartz, MD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Director, Mood Disorders Clinical Programs
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

FEATURED SPEAKERS

Meg Hutchinson
Lyric-based, contemporary acoustic singer, songwriter, poet who at 19 experienced the first of many depressions. After years of quiet but incapacitating struggles, including hospitalizations, she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Through her music and her work Meg has chosen to speak out to help others who may share her experiences, and raise awareness that people who hide their struggles are often most at risk

Alexandra Styron
Daughter of William Styron, author of elegiac "Lie Down in Darkness" and author of memoir "Reading My Father" reflects on her family's life.

FACULTY

J. Raymond DePaulo, Jr., M.D.
Chair and Henry Phipps Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Co-Director, Johns Hopkins Mood Disorders Center
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Kay Redfield Jamison, PhD
Dalio Family Professor in Mood Disorders
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Co-Director, Johns Hopkins Mood Disorders Center
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Francis M. Mondimore, M.D.
Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Director, Substance Abuse Intensive Treatment Unit
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

John Walkup, M.D.
Vice Chair, Department of Psychiatry 
Director, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center
Adjunct Professor at the Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health

Jess Wright, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Chair, Academic Affairs at the University of Louisville
Medical Director of the Norton Psychiatric Center

Pamela Y. Collins, MD, MPH
Director, Office for Research on Disparities & Global Mental Health Director
Office of Rural Mental Health Research National Institute of Mental Health/NIH