Comprehensive Care for Patients With ADHD:
A Practical, Interactive Initiative

Wednesday, October 15, 2008	Hyatt Regency Huntington Beach Resort & Spa
6:15 PM – 7:00 PM Registration/Dinner	21500 Pacific Coast Highway
7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Scientific Session	Huntington Beach, California

Chair	Faculty Presenter
Timothy E. Wilens, MD	James T. McCracken, MD
Associate Professor, Psychiatry	Professor, Child Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School	David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Director, Substance Abuse	Director, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Pediatric Psychopharmacology Research Unit	UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute and Hospital in Los Angeles
Massachusetts General Hospital	Los Angeles, California
Boston, Massachusetts

STATEMENT OF NEED

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) remains an undertreated and underrecognized disorder. Studies have shown that fewer than half of all children and adolescents who met DSM-IV criteria for ADHD had had a prior diagnosis, and fewer than a third of these had received medication for ADHD for most of the previous 12 months. Among adults, the situation is even worse, as the National Comorbidity Survey Replication reported that only about 11% of adults with ADHD received treatment for the disorder within the past 12 months. These data reinforce the ongoing need to educate clinicians concerning the recognition and treatment of ADHD in childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. This evening symposium will discuss the diagnosis and treatment of ADHD, with particular emphasis on the period from early adolescence to adulthood, through didactic presentation and case vignettes.

Learning Objectives

You will be better able to diagnose ADHD and differentiate it from common psychiatric comorbidities
You will be able to explain the impairments and impact of untreated ADHD on adolescent and adult patients and the importance of treating the disorder
You will be able to develop a multimodal treatment plan tailored to the individual patient, which may include medication, psychosocial treatment, organizational training, education, and accommodations in school and at work.
You will be able to select and titrate pharmacologic treatments that improve symptomatic behavior and cognitive functioning in adolescents and adults with ADHD.

Intended Audience
Psychiatrists, primary care physicians, and other health care providers who treat patients with ADHD

Accreditation/Designation Statements

Veritas Institute for Medical Education, Inc. is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Veritas Institute for Medical Education, Inc. designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Veritas Institute for Medical Education, Inc., 877-225-2927

Financial and Unlabeled Use Disclosures

The relevant financial relationships of those persons in a position to control the content of this CME activity will be disclosed at the meeting. Participants are advised that this CME activity will contain references to unlabeled/unapproved/investigational uses of drugs to treat ADHD.

Sponsorship and Support

Sponsored by Veritas Institute for Medical Education, Inc.
Supported by an educational grant from McNeil Pediatrics Division of McNeil-PPC, Inc., administered by Ortho-McNeil Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC.

THERE IS NO FEE FOR THIS ACTIVITY.
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