The Department of Psychiatry is pleased to welcome Catherine Lord, PhD as its featured speaker for the Irene Jakab Memorial Lecture. Dr. Lord is Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Education at the UCLA Semel Institute of Neuroscience and Human Behavior. Formerly, she was the Founding Director of the Center for Autism and the Developing Brain, a joint effort of Weill Cornell Medicine and Columbia University. She is best known for being one of the authors of standard diagnostic instruments including the ADOS and ADI-R. She also has been carrying out a longitudinal study of about 200 children referred for autism at age 2, who are now in the their mid-20's, about which she will talk. She has participated in many multi-site trials of behavioral interventions and is an active clinician working with children and adolescents and their families. Currently, she is working on a brief and hopefully scalable observation of social communication called the BOSCC which may be sufficiently sensitive to change that it can be used as a truly blinded measure of social response to treatment as well as a revision of the ADI-R that is shorter and more useful over time.
The entirety of this program will be a lecture by the speaker(s). All individuals able to control the content of this educational activity are required to disclose all relevant financial relationships with any proprietary entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services, used on, or consumed by, patients. Registration is not required for this event. This event is free and there will be no refunds. The University of Pittsburgh is an affirmative action, equal opportunity institution.
Location. Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic Auditorium
For More Information. Please contact Frances Patrick (patrickfm@upmc.edu) or at 412-246-6787.
Continuing Education Credit: The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Each physician should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. Other health care professionals are awarded .15 continuing education units (CEUs), which are equal to 1.5 contact hours. In accordance with Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education requirements on disclosure, information about relationships of presenters with commercial interests (if any) will be included in materials which will be distributed at the time of the conference. WPIC is approved by the American Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. WPIC maintains responsibility for this program and its contents. This program is being offered for 1.5 continuing education credits.
The indicated number of clock hours of continuing education is provided through Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic of UPMC’s Office of Educational Resources and Planning, a PA-approved provider of social work continuing education in accordance with all the applicable educational and professional standards of the Pennsylvania State Board of Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapist. These clock hours satisfy requirements for LSW/LCSW, LPC and LMFT renewal. For more information, call (412) 204-9085.
