• Thursday, March 15
• Friday, March 16
• Saturday, March 17
• Sunday, March 18
• Monday, March 19

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Program Track Key
The Annual Meeting Program Committee has identified the following areas of interest to help attendees plan their schedules.

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: CLINICAL TRACK
: INDUSTRY SUPPORTED SYMPOSIUM
: RESEARCH TRACK

Thursday, March 15

7:00 AM–1:00 PM
AAGP Board of Directors Meeting
The meeting is open to AAGP members who wish to observe.

1:00 PM–7:00 PM
AAGP's Advocacy Day
(AAGP MEMBERS ONLY)

Join AAGP in this special event and make a difference. AAGP's Advocacy Day will precede the 2012 Annual Meeting. A legislative briefing will be held at the Washington Hilton followed by individual lobby visits to Capitol Hill. All participants will be provided with briefing materials, tips on how to conduct a congressional visit, and materials to leave with their congressional representative. Demonstrate the strength of professionals advocating for late-life mental health care by joining forces on Capitol Hill as an AAGP member. We can make a difference. The AAGP Board of Directors and AAGP Committee Chairs will be leading the congressional visits on such critical issues as health care reform, loan repayment, Medicare reimbursement, geriatric mental health research funding, and more. Watch your email for sign-up information in January.

Friday, March 16

7:30 AM–4:45 PM
Review In Geriatric Psychiatry: Preparation for Subspecialty Examinations
Sponsored by the AAGP Education Committee
(TICKETED EVENT)
Program Chair: William M. McDonald, MD

A full-day program designed for subspecialty exam preparation. Content areas include: evaluation and diagnosis; dementia risk factors and treatment; neurological assessment and common neuropsychiatric disorders; anxiety disorders in older patients; psychotic disorders in the elderly; bereavement, mood disorders, and suicide; substance use disorders; sleep disorders; personality disorders; ECT therapy and pharmacology; ethical, forensic, and regulatory issues; plus test-taking strategies. Register Early and Save! Registrants will receive a $25 coupon towards the purchase of the iGPSAP (AAGP's online Geriatric Psychiatry Self Assessment Program).

8:30 AM–12:30 PM
Neuroscience Teaching Day: The Neuroscience of Dementing Disorders
Sponsored by AAGP's Research Committee
(TICKETED EVENT)
Program Chairs: Helen Lavretsky, MD
Paul Newhouse, MD

What are current understandings in the neuroscience community about the underlying causes of dementias such as Alzheimer's disease and fronto-temporal dementia? What advances have been made in treatment development for AD? What is known about non-Alzheimer's dementias? This year's Neuroscience Teaching Day will explore the work of cuttingedge scientists, who lead developments in these areas. Speakers for this year's program will address the state of the science of Alzheimer's disease neurobiology; new advances and challenges in treatment development; and the neuroscience of fronto-temporal and subcortical dementias.

The AAGP Training Directors Workshop is open to all directors of geriatric psychiatry fellowship programs, or their designees. This long-running, annual workshop is designed to:

• present new ideas to help directors of geriatric psychiatry fellowship programs to grow their programs and improve upon educational offerings;
• foster a team approach to recruiting students into the field of psychiatry and into geriatrics specifically; and
• give training directors an opportunity to discuss issues, regulations, and current events that are impacting their training programs.

The workshop will include presentations and open discussion forums on a number of topics, as well as updates on AAGP initiatives through the Teaching and Training Committee and on critical legislative activities. The program is open to all training directors or their designees, but advance registration is required. Please register in section C1 of the AAGP Annual Meeting Registration Form. Free to AAGP Members.

10:00 AM–11:30 AM
Delirum: An Update on Pathophysiology, Prevention, Pharmacological Treatment Possibilities and Prognosis
Chair: Kees J. Kalisvaart, MD, PhD
Faculty: Barbara Kamholz, MD
Ralph Vreeswijk, MSc
Robert Jan Osse, MD

Over the past five years, intriguing new research have been published on all aspects of delirium. How good is the evidence and what are the effects on daily practice? Are we really any good in preventing delirium? Is the treatment undergoing any changes in the near future? Do we realize enough what the effect of delirium is on the prognosis of our patients?

10:00 AM–11:30 AM
Successful Aging: What Exactly Is It . . . and Why Does It Matter for Geropsychiatry?
Chair: Ipsit Vahia, MD
Faculty: Colin Depp, PhD
Carolina Jimenez Madiedo, MD
Discussant: Dan Blazer, MD

This session will focus on recent empirical research on successful aging. The session will commence with a comprehensive review of the existing literature on concepts, dimensions and definitions of successful aging. It will include data correlates of successful cognitive, emotional and psychosocial aging in community-dwelling older adults and identify potential areas of intervention to improve potential for successful aging. The session will lay a special focus on successful aging in the context of chronic physical illness and chronic mental illness. Emphasis will be placed on clinical relevance of successful aging research.

10:00 AM–11:30 AM
Using Scales and Measurement to Improve Quality in Your Geriatric Psychiatry Practice
Sponsored by the AAGP Clinical Practice Committee
Chair: Maureen Nash, MD, MS
Discussant: Susan Rose, PhD, GCNS-BC, PMHNP-BC

This is a case-based workshop discussing how, what and why to incorporate clinical measurement scales in an active geriatric psychiatry practice. It is designed by and geared toward the busy clinician. Although there will be references made to more elaborate batteries of tests performed by neuropsychologists, occupational therapists and others, this workshop will focus on office level testing one can incorporate into daily practice. Scales help us understand the level of symptomatology of our patients, aid diagnosis and help gauge treatment efficacy.

1:00 PM–2:30 PM
Creative Resilience & Aging 4: Frank Sinatra's Aging in Rhythm
Faculty: Jeffrey Lyness, MD

Frank Sinatra (1915–1998) was among the most popular, influential, and admired performing artists of the 20th century. At the same time, his personality and personal life were among the most controversial of all public figures. This presentation will use images, audio, and video clips to illustrate Mr. Sinatra's professional journey across six decades, including examination of the narcissistic ambition and bouts of depression, suicidality, and ongoing alcohol abuse that shaped his life. We will pay special attention to how he dealt with his own aging process, including how he continued to tour in concert well into the dementia that would eventually silence him as an artist and as a man. His story holds rich implications for considering the creative resilience potential in aging, and for the limitations to such resilience posed by mental illness and functional impairment.

The NIH Toolbox for Assessment of Neurological and Behavioral Function provides a psychometrically sound, validated, state-of-the-art set of measures for assessing cognitive, emotional, motor and sensory function over the lifespan from ages 3–85 years. This set of brief, easy-to-use, and inexpensive-to-administer measures provides a new opportunity for both researchers and clinicians to capture uniform data for longitudinal and epidemiologic studies and prevention or intervention trials.

1:00 PM–2:30 PM
Proximal and Latent Effects of Disasters in Elderly: From Neuroimmunology to Japan 2012
Sponsored by the AAGP Disaster Preparedness Task Force
Chair: Shilpa Srinivasan, MD
Paul D. S. Kirwin, MD
Faculty: Rachel Yehuda, PhD
Alessandra Scalmati, MD, PhD
Iqbal Ahmed, MD

This symposium will discuss the epigenetic, neuroimmune and cultural factors involved in trauma and resilience in older adults.

1:00 PM–2:30 PM
The Older Adult Driver with Dementia: Safety Concerns, Physician Interventions and Legal and Ethical Issues
Sponsored by the American Psychiatric Association Council on Psychosomatic and Geriatric Psychiatry
Chair: Helen Kyomen, MD, MS
Faculty: David Casey, MD
Discussant: Robert Roca, MD, MPH, MBA

Patients and their families likely will turn to physicians for guidance on safe driving as the number of older drivers with dementia and other medical conditions expands. Physicians will have the challenge of balancing their patients' safety against their patients' transportation needs and the safety of society. The goals of this presentation are to learn to: 1) Evaluate the driving abilities of elderly patients with dementia, 2) intervene according to driving abilities and needs, and 3) consider associated ethical issues and incorporate state-specific legal recommendations and regulations.

This will be the third in a series of symposia at the AAGP Annual Meeting focused on introducing and explaining the ABPN Maintenance of Certification Program with special emphasis on how to compete successfully the Performance in Practice (PIP) component. The symposium will begin with a description of the MOC program provided by Dr. Colenda who is Board Treasurer and one of the seven Directors for Psychiatry of the ABPN. In the two subsequent presentations, Drs. Lantz and Sewell will role model, using actual case materials, how to complete the PIP Clinical Module and the Patient and Peer Feedback Module, respectively.

2:45 PM–4:15 PM
GERI-BD: Design and Preliminary Analysis of Outcomes
Chair: Robert Young, MD
Faculty: John Beyer, MD
Benoit Mulsant, MD
Martha Sajatovic, MD

This session presents findings from an NIMH-funded, multi-center, randomized-controlled trial of acute pharmacotherapy of manic and hypomanic states in elders with bipolar I disorder. We will outline the rationale and features of the study, and compare tolerability and antimanic response in patients assigned to treatment with lithium or valproate under double-blind conditions.

2:45 PM–4:15 PM
Geriatric Psychiatry and Dementia Care at Home in an Urban Setting: Interdisciplinary Experience and Research in Baltimore City
Chair: Deirdre Johnston, MB, BCh
Faculty: Quincy Samus, PhD
Betty Black, PhD
Bernadette Cullen, MB, BCh

This multidisciplinary symposium describes two models of home-based care of an aging-in-place mentally ill population, and updates progress on the MIND at Home study of dementia care at home.

2:45 PM–4:15 PM
Novel Molecular Mechanisms in the Pathophysiology of Late-Life Mood and Cognitive Disorders
Chair: Warren Taylor, MD, MHS
Faculty: Julie Dumas, PhD
R. Scott Mackin, PhD
Brent Forester, MD
Warren Taylor, MD, MHS

This symposium will focus on recent work examining the potential role of novel mechanisms in the pathogenesis of these disorders. We will begin by discussing contributory mechanisms in cognitive disorders of aging and end with a comparable discussion of novel mechanisms contributing to late-life depression. Finally we will end by discussing potential overlap between discussed systems and how they may contribute to comorbid mood and cognitive disorders

5:00 PM–6:30 PM
Opening Plenary and Awards Session
WELCOME AND PRESIDENTIAL PLENARY ADDRESS: "OUR BRIGHT FUTURE"
Paul D.S. Kirwin, MD
AAGP President-Elect

AAGP AWARDS PRESENTATION
Allan A. Anderson, MD
AAGP President

6:30 PM–8:00 PM
Opening Reception

Immediately following the Opening Plenary, an Opening Reception will be open to all registrants (separate tickets may be purchased for guests). Join your friends and colleagues as we toast AAGP's 2012 Award Winners, and enjoy an elegant reception.