Conference Educational Objectives

The NCDEU Scientific Program Committee planned and designed this activity
and formulated the following educational objectives for the 2010 meeting:

1. Indentify strategies to accelerate the pace of translating mental health research into practice. Topics to be addressed may include leveraging scarce resources, clinical trial development, new research tools, public policy and health care regulatory policies affecting research, and how to identify and disseminate
   best practices.
2. Analyze the role of a range of treatments in psychiatric practice, including their efficacy/effectiveness and safety, particularly in vulnerable populations, such as pregnant women, children, and the elderly.
3. Identify the mechanisms of action of the psychotropic medications.
4. Identify progress in advancing personalized mental health care.
5. Understand the current state of knowledge regarding psychiatric treatment as studied in large practical clinical trials.
6. Describe the role of the Federal government health agencies, primarily the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and the Food and Drug
   Administration (FDA), in supporting clinical trials and in the marketing and
   post-marketing surveillance of new psychotropic medications.

Target Audience The target audience includes academic and practicing psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses and social workers, as well as research pharmacists, investigators with the pharmaceutical industry, and representatives from NIMH, ASCP, and FDA who are interested in psychopharmacology and the broader areas of mental health interventions and translational research. CME credits are not available for the Poster abstract sessions.

Americans with Disabilities Act
In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, all NCDEU meeting facilities and overnight accommodations are accessible to persons with disabilities. For assistance, please contact Infinity Conference Group, Inc., at info@ncdeumeeting.org or 703-925-9455, extension 0. Contact hours for this program TBD.

Continuing Education

NURSES: The University of South Florida College of Nursing is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. Contact hours for this program TBD.

PHARMACISTS: The University of South Florida College of Medicine is
accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. Contact hours for this program TBD. Universal program number TBD. To receive continuing education credit, a pharmacist must attend the accredited sessions and must return the program evaluation instrument. In order to receive full credit, registrants must register no later than
10 minutes after the start of the meeting and must attend the entire meeting.

PHYSICIANS: The American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (CME) to provide CME for physicians. Contact hours for this program TBD.

PSYCHOLOGISTS: The University of South Florida College of Medicine is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The University of South Florida College of Medicine maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Contact hours for this program TBD.

SOCIAL WORKERS: The University of South Florida College of Public Health is an approved provider of continuing education credits for clinical social work, marriage and family therapy, and mental health counseling. Contact hours for this program TBD.