Dr. Fred Goodwin Sliced N Diced

A year ago, Dr. Fred Goodwin, world’s leading authority on mood disorders, sat in a comfortable chair and propped his broken leg up to answer questions from my local cause DBSA NCA (Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance of the National Capital Area) and the general public at George Washington University Medical Center.  John McManamy was there reporting.  Please visit John’s blog and  see his interview with Dr. Goodwin on video in bits and pieces:

http://www.healthcentral.com/bipolar/videos-273200-46.html

http://www.healthcentral.com/bipolar/c/15/45873/interview-frederick-1/

Dr. Goodwin will be back this spring speaking to DBSA NCA  live and uncensored at George Washington University.

Dr. Donna Holland Barnes, a Research Associate and Instructor to Howard University Department of Psychiatry who lost her own son, Marc Jamal Barnes, to suicide, gave a heartfelt presentation to DBSA NCA last month about doing anything and everything within our power to prevent suicide. Dr. Barnes is founder and president of the National Organization for People of Color Against Suicide (NOPCAS at http://www.nopcas.com/ ).

Dr. William B. Lawson, Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at Howard University,  who serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of national DBSA, talked to DBSA NCA earlier this month about depression and public policy, racism and psychiatry, the economy and mental health.

Neil Owens, founder of the Sunbox Company at http://www.sunbox.com/ recently visited DBSA NCA to discuss Seasonal Affective Disorder (  SAD ) and demonstrate light boxes and light therapy.

Coming attractions in the DBSA NCA speaker program include:

March 2009 Dr. Francis Mondimore

Dr. Mondimore is a professor at Johns Hopkins Medical School and the Director of the intensive substance abuse treatment unit there.  International best selling books written by Dr. Mondimore include: Depression, The Mood Disease, Bipolar Disorder: A Guide for Patients and Families, Adolescent Depression: A Guide for Parents, A Natural History of Homosexuality (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996).

April/May 2009 Dr. Fred Goodwin

Spring 2009 Victoria Maxwell comes to do a performance and several workshops on being crazy for life.  More information on this Canadian performer here:  http://www.victoriamaxwell.com/services.asp

Dr. Wayne Drevets of NIMH on Brain Imaging (PET and MRI technologies)

Bill Emmet on Activism

Dr. Fred Jacobson, Chapter advisor to DBSA NCA, Live From APA (American Psychiatric Association)