3:00pm-6:00pm Eastern
Registration Open

4:00pm-6:00pm Eastern | 2 Contact Hours

Pre-Conference Add-on*: Enhancing Psychopharmacology through Psychotherapy

Sattaria (Tari) Dilks, DNP, APRN, PMHNP-BC, FAANP; Sara L. Jones, PhD, APRN, PMHNP-BC, FAANP, FAAN

Integrate psychotherapy in prescribing practices to better understand the patient, as well as yourself. Discuss how therapeutic approaches can be used to enhance the patient-provider relationship and treatment engagement.

7:30am Eastern
Registration Open

8:00am – 8:15am Eastern | 0.25 Contact Hours

Connections to Practice

 Brittany Evans, DNP, APRN, PMHNP-BC

Set the stage for the day of learning and how it connects to your nursing practice.

8:15am – 9:45am Eastern | 1.5 Contact Hours

Keynote: Emerging Treatment Targets for Schizophrenia

Jonathan M. Meyer, MD, DLFAPA

Explore the state-of-the science regarding new treatments in the pipeline for schizophrenia with novel mechanisms of action that do not rely on dopamine receptor binding.

10:00am – 11:30am Eastern | 1.5 Contact Hours

Optimizing With Less: The Art of Deprescribing

Kirby Williams, MSN, PMHNP-BC

Gain insights into strategies for identifying appropriate candidates for deprescribing, developing patient-centered deprescribing plans, and fostering effective communication among healthcare providers to optimize patient care.

11:45pm – 1:45pm Eastern

Product Theater Lunch: A Tailored Treatment for Adults with ADHD

Jennifer A. Ganem, MS, APRN, Sponsored by Noven Pharmaceuticals

11:45am – 12:30pm: Meal Service
12:45pm – 1:45pm: Presentation

2:00pm – 3:30pm Eastern | 1.5 Contact Hours

Demystifying Lithium’s Renal Effects

Jonathan M. Meyer, MD, DLFAPA

Understand lithium’s renal journey, including how to identify, track, and manage polyuria, as well as how certain prescribing practices can lessen lithium’s renal impact.

3:45pm – 5:15pm Eastern | 1.5 Contact Hours

Precision Healthcare for Mood Disorders

Josh Hamilton, APRN-BC, CTMH, CNE, CLNC, FAANP

Integrate concepts of neurobiology and neuropathology with genetics and genomics to produce new models for diagnosis and personalized treatment for commonly recurring mood disorders. Through case studies, examine the efficacy of this approach for the management of clinical depression and bipolar affective disorders.

5:15pm – 5:30pm Eastern | 0.25 Contact Hours

Daily Synthesis

Mary Ann Nihart, MA, APRN, PMHCNS-BC, PMHNP-BC & Georgia L. Stevens, PhD, APRN, PMHCNS-BC

Synthesize the day’s learning into actionable takeaways for your nursing practice.

6:00pm – 7:30pm Eastern

Product Theater Dinner: Digital Health Technologies and Their Potential Role in the Mental Health Care Treatment Landscape

Desiree M. Matthews, PMHNP-BC & Lisa Marsch, PhD
Sponsored by Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

6:00pm – 6:30pm: Meal Service
6:30pm – 7:30pm: Presentation

6:00am – 7:30am Eastern

Product Theater Breakfast: Rethinking Systems in Schizophrenia: Acetylcholine and Muscarinic Receptors

Desiree M. Matthews, PMHNP-BC
Sponsored by Bristol Myers Squibb

6:00am – 6:30am: Meal Service
6:30am – 7:30am: Presentation

7:30am Eastern
Registration Open

8:00am – 8:15am Eastern | 0.25 Contact Hours

Connections to Practice

Lyons T. Hardy, EdD, MSN, PMHNP

Set the stage for the day of learning and how it connects to your nursing practice.

8:15am – 9:45am Eastern | 1.5 Contact Hours

Benzos—How Early is Your Refill?

Daniel Wesemann, DNP, MSW, PMHNP-BC, ARNP, FAANP

With anxiety being a common neuro-psychiatric symptom related with post COVID-19 infection, get crucial updates on how to prescribe and de-prescribe this highly effective but controversial treatment option.

10:00am – 11:30am Eastern | 1.5 Contact Hours

Ketamine vs ECT: Perspectives on Recent Comparative Effectiveness Trials

Sanjay J. Mathew, MD

Compare the efficacy and tolerability of therapeutics strategies for treatment resistant depression including Ketamine versus ECT and medication augmentation versus switch, as well as how the research translates into clinical treatment.

11:45am – 1:45pm Eastern | 1 Contact Hour

Symposium Lunch: A New Script: Implementing Prescription Digital Therapeutics into Practice

Kari Franson, PharmD, PhD, BCPP
Supported by an unrestricted educational grant from Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Evaluation and contact hour certificate provided by Neuroscience Education Institute.

Evaluation and contact hour certificate provided by Neuroscience Education Institute.
11:45am – 12:30pm: Meal Service
12:45pm – 1:45pm: Presentation

2:00pm – 3:30pm Eastern | 1.5 Contact Hours

Pharmacology of Obesity and the Intersection with Psychopharmacology

Angela Golden, DNP, FNP-C, FAANP, FOMA

Review current anti-obesity medications and, through case studies that include patients with depression, anxiety, and severe mental illness, examine the intersection of obesity and mental illness.

3:45pm – 5:15pm Eastern | 1.5 Contact Hours

Nutritional Psychiatry: The Science of Food and Mental Health

Mary Gutierrez, PharmD, BCPP

Get insights into the many facets of nutritional psychiatry, including the gut microbiome and serotonin; prebiotics and probiotics; the connection between food, oxidative stress, inflammation and mood; and the effects of tea on GABA.

5:15pm – 5:30pm Eastern | 0.25 Contact Hours

Daily Synthesis

Laura G. Leahy, DrNP, APRN, PMH-CNS/FNP, CARN-AP, FAANP, FAAN; Barbara Jones Warren, PhD, RN, PMHCNS-BC, FNAP, FAAN

Synthesize the day’s learning into actionable takeaways for your nursing practice.

6:00pm – 7:30pm Eastern

Product Theater Dinner: Cognitive Symptoms: The Overlooked Domain of Schizophrenia

Andrew Cutler, MD; Amber Hoberg, PMHNP-BC
Sponsored by Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

6:00pm – 6:30pm: Meal Service
6:30pm – 7:30pm: Presentation

7:30am Eastern
Registration Open

8:00am – 8:15am Eastern | 0.25 Contact Hours

Connections to Practice

Capt. Joseph M. Holshoe, PMHNP-BC

Set the stage for the day of learning and how it connects to your nursing practice.

8:15am – 9:45am Eastern | 1.5 Contact Hours
Mixed States: When Bipolarity Complicates Diagnosis and Treatment of Depression

James Phelps, MD

When the common symptoms of “mixed states” overlap extensively with PTSD, GAD, borderlinity and ADHD, and differentiating amongst them is nearly impossible, gain an understanding of when to use an antidepressant and treatment alternatives.

10:00am – 11:30am Eastern | 1.5 Contact Hours

Psychotropic Medications during the Perinatal Period: A Rational Approach to Prescribing

Lyons T. Hardy, EdD, MS, PMH-NP
This presentation will give an overview of principles that can be used to guide psychotropic medication prescribing during the perinatal period. The use of specific medication classes and their use during pregnancy and lactation will also be discussed.

11:45am – 1:45pm Eastern

Product Theater Lunch: Moving Forward: Evolving Practices for Identifying, Assessing and Managing Tardive Dyskinesia

Sponsored by Teva Pharmaceuticals

11:45am – 12:30pm: Meal Service
12:45pm – 1:45pm: Presentation

2:00pm – 3:30pm Eastern | 1.5 Contact Hours

Grappling with Uncertainty: Managing Youth Suicide Risk  

John V. Campo, MD

3:45pm – 5:15pm Eastern | 1.5 Contact Hours

An Update on PANDAS Treatment and Research

Kyle Williams, MD, PhD
Discuss the association between streptococcal infections and obsessive-compulsive disorder and updates in research to identify and treat the symptoms of PANDAS/PANS in children.