The New York City Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Association presents On the Precipice of a Paradigm Shift: Novel therapeutics for PTSD & Anxiety Disorders, a lecture by JoAnn Difede, Ph.D. The lecture will be held on October 21, 2014. Check in & registration is at 6:30pm. A wine & cheese reception will follow. The event will be held at the Ellis Institute on 145 E 32nd St (bt Third & Lexington Avenue), 9th floor, New York, NY, 10016. The lecture will begin at 7:00pm. Register Here: conta.cc/1wcODU5 $30 for professional member ticket, $40 for professional non-member ticket $15 for student member ticket $20 for student non-member ticket NYC CBT welcomes established professionals, early career professionals, and students from all applied, research, & academic settings. Tickets are non-refundable or exchangeable. JoAnn Difede, Ph.D., is a Professor, Department of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University, and Director of the Program for Anxiety and Traumatic Stress Studies (PATSS). She is internationally recognized for her pioneering work using virtual reality technology in the treatment of PTSD consequent to the WTC attack of September 11, 2001, and more recently in treatment of combat-related PTSD. Dr. Difede is currently serving as PI of a multi-site Department of Defense funded clinical trial, “Enhancing Exposure Therapy for PTSD: Virtual Reality and Imaginal Exposure with a Cognitive Enhancer,” which is investigating how the use of virtual reality and the pharmacologic agent, d-cycloserine, may accelerate recovery from combat-related PTSD among U.S. service members deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan as well as examining a single candidate gene hypothesis seeking to determine if a variant in brain derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) will predict treatment response. These results may provide a step toward precision medicine in psychiatry providing groundwork for targeting specific PTSD treatments to the individual patient’s neurobiological and genetic profile. Additionally, Dr. Difede served on the NYC Mayor’s Advisory WTC Working Medical Group for several years. She has advised many corporations, non-profit organizations, and governmental agencies in the U.S. and internationally regarding the implementation of best practices for the screening, evaluation and treatment of trauma and PTSD. Dr. Difede’s work has been featured in many popular media venues including the New Yorker, the NY Times, Newsweek and Scientific American as well as on many television programs including the Charlie Rose Show Brain Series, CNN, NBC and ABC’s World News Tonight. Notably, she was featured in New York magazine’s Best Doctors issue in 2005 for her work developing a virtual reality-based treatment for PTSD. Become a member of NYC-CBT by joining here: nyc-cbt.org/join/
Posted on: Wed, 01 Oct 2014 00:04:31 +0000