Bipolar Disorder: Considerations for Primary Care Providers in Rural and Underserved Settings

Wednesday, December 5th 2007

This is a free training that uses internet‐based distance learning technology. You can attend from your home or office! This presentation, featuring a national expert on bipolar disorder, will cover the identification, treatment, and associated prescribing strategies related to this diagnosis in the primary care setting. While this presentation will not focus exclusively on providers in rural settings, the information will be useful to those practicing in more isolated settings, those who treat underserved populations, and those communities with limited access to behavioral health resources.

You will be asked to complete a brief post‐training survey in order to be eligible for free CME credits.
Questions: Contact Mimi McFaul, Psy.D. via email (mmcfaul@wiche.edu) or by telephone
at 303‐541‐0288.

to view this web cast asynchronously, click here

To take the survey after you have viewed this web cast, please click here.

PLEASE NOTE: YOU WILL NEED A JAVA APPLICATION to view this web cast asynchronously. You can download this application at http://www.elluminate.com/support, click on "Get the Latest Software" link.

Dr. Allen attended Florida State University, received his medical degree from the Medical University of South Carolina and trained in psychiatry at the Institute of Living where he served as Chief Resident. He went on to serve on the faculty of Cornell and later NYU. While at NYU, he developed the model Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program at Bellevue Hospital, mentioned in New York Magazine’s “Best Hospitals in
New York.”

Currently he is director of the psychiatric emergency and consultation services and is co‐director of the Mood Disorders Program at the University of Colorado. He is a principal investigator in the NIMH Systematic Treatment Enhancement Program for Bipolar Disorder and other studies in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder; he has served as a research trainer internationally and recently received a NARSAD Independent
Investigator award.

He has served as president of the American Association for Emergency Psychiatry, chair of the APA Task Force on Psychiatric Emergency Services, panelist for the Expert Consensus Guideline for Bipolar Disorder and the Colorado Clinical Guidelines Collaborative Depression Program, lead expert for the Expert Consensus Guideline for the Management of Behavioral Emergencies, member of the American College of Emergency Physicians clinical policy committee and reviewer for the Cochrane Collaborative. He is the author or editor of three books and associate editor of General Hospital Psychiatry. He is board certified in psychiatry with added qualifications in addictions.

Funded by the Office of Rural Health Policy (ORHP)/Health Resources and Services
Administration (HRSA)
Award Number: 5 U1CRH03713-03-00