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Saturday, May 30: 11 a.m.-5 p.m.
Sunday, May 31: 7:30 a.m to 5 p.m.
Monday, June 1 through Wednesday, June 3: 7:30 a.m to 6 p.m
Thursday, June 4: 7:30 a.m to 2 p.m.
All fees paid in advance must be in U.S. dollars. Fees can be paid by check, money order, VISA, or MasterCard only.
Fee-exempt policy: Registration fees are waived only for CME course faculty, medical students, APA honorary and distinguished fellows (does not include APA fellows or life fellows), district branch executive staff who are not APA members, and nonmember program participants (only for the day[s] of their presentation).
Registration fees for medical students can be waived only if they present proper identification, that is, valid medical student identification card or letter of verification from their instructor.
Nonmember psychiatry residents must present a letter from their instructor or director of training verifying their status as a psychiatry resident to qualify for the reduced registration fee.
Advance registration fees
(* indicates that fee includes one copy of the syllabus)
APA members
Full-time registration* $135
Corresponding members* $135
Members-in-training* $60
One-day registrants
(all member categories) $70
Medical students $0
Nonmembers
Full-time registration* $435
Nonmember residents, students, and
mental health chaplains* $65
Advocacy group members $65
One-day registration
(all nonmember categories) $190
Medical students $0
Guest registration One only per full-time registrant (restrictions apply; APA members may not register as guest) $70
The deadline for advance registration is April 20. Requests for registration refunds must be made in writing and received prior to April 20. Refund requests made after that date will be processed after the annual meeting.
On-site registration fees
APA members
Full-time registration* $185
Corresponding members* $145
Members-in-training* $70
One-day registrants
(all member categories) $95
Medical students $0
Nonmembers
Full-time registration* $485
Nonmember residents, students,
and mental health chaplains* $70
Advocacy group members $70
One-day registration
(all nonmember categories) $210
Medical students $0
Guest registration
One only per full-time registrant
(restrictions apply; APA members
may not register as guest) $80
If you have questions about registration for the annual meeting, please call (202) 682-6000.
Continuing Education Credit
The American Psychiatric Association is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education
(ACCME) to sponsor continuing medical education for physicians.
Please note: The entire scientific program at the annual meeting, as outlined below, has been approved for CME credit. Most program activities are designated Category 1; these include advances in research, CME courses, clinical case and continuous clinical case conferences, debates, forums, industry-supported symposia, lectures, medical updates, media sessions, new research oral/slide sessions, presidential symposium, review of psychiatry, round table discussion, scientific and clinical report sessions, symposia, and workshops. Other program activities are designated Category 2; these include master educator clinical and research consultations with, discussion groups, new research poster sessions, video production clinics, and some media sessions, lectures, and workshops.
One hour of credit may be claimed for each hour of participation. As an organization accredited for continuing medical education, APA certifies that the CME activities designated Category 1 meet the criteria for Category 1 of the Physician's Recognition Award of the American Medical Association and for the CME requirement of APA. One of the criteria for Category 1 certification is that a program explore one subject or a closely related group of subjects in depth.
As part of the overall scientific program, 100 continuing medical education courses will be offered at the annual meeting, either in a half-day or full-day format. Those attending courses will receive a CME certificate at the conclusion of each course attended. A full complement of courses will be presented starting Saturday, May 30. Admission to all courses is by annual meeting badge and course ticket only. .
APA members are required to maintain their own record of CME hours. To claim credit, registrants should attend a session or course in its entirety and complete the certificate found in the front of the annual meeting syllabus. A certificate of attendance can also be obtained by turning in a completed general evaluation form at the Information/Locator Center or the Office of Education booth in the APA Resource Center.
Transportation From Airport
The average cost from the airport to the downtown hotels by taxi is $30 (U.S.). Regularly scheduled bus service from
the airport to downtown Toronto is available between 6:30 a.m. and 12:45 a.m. daily. The average cost is $9.25
(U.S.).
Message Center
The Message Center will be located in the Lobby on the street level of the Convention Centre and staffed during
registration hours. Message monitors will be strategically located in the Exhibit Hall and elsewhere throughout the
Convention Centre. Registrants whose names appear on these monitors have a message that can be retrieved from
self-service computers or picked up at the Message Center.
Registrants are encouraged to leave a schedule of courses and activities with their home offices so that in emergencies they can be located at the meeting.
Information/Locator Center
The Information/Locator Center will be housed in the Lobby on the street level of the Convention Centre and staffed
during registration hours. Meeting participants can obtain up-to-date general information about the program,
component meetings, the local area, and the locations of various activities and events. Meeting participants also can
find out where colleagues and friends registered for the meeting are staying.
Shuttle Bus Service
A registration badge is needed to ride the shuttle buses. Bus service will be available beginning 10:30 a.m. on
Saturday, May 30. The service will operate daily throughout the meeting until 6 p.m. and conclude Thursday, June 4,
at 6 p.m.
Exhibits
Commercial and educational exhibits will be located in Exhibit Halls A/B/C, upper level, Convention Centre, along
with the Publishers' Bookfair and APA Resource Center. For your convenience, the APA Resource Center and the
Publishers' Bookfair will open Saturday, May 30, at 11 a.m. The hours for commercial and educational exhibits are
Sunday, May 31, 11 a.m to 5 p.m.; Monday and Tuesday, June 1 and 2, 10 a.m to 6 p.m.; and Wednesday, June 3, 10
a.m to 3:00 p.m. Please note the new closing time of Wednesday, June 3, for commercial and educational exhibits,
the APA Resource Center, and Publishers' Bookfair.
Annual Meeting Job Bank
Looking for a new job? Search our computerized database containing information on hundreds of psychiatric positions
currently available and walk away with a profile and contact information on each position of interest.
Trying to hire a psychiatrist? Include your psychiatric opening in APA's Annual Meeting Job Bank and gain access
to hundreds of psychiatrists attending the APA annual meeting. More than 800 psychiatrists walked away with
information on available positions at the 1997 Annual Meeting Job Bank.
For more information on this and the year-round Job Bank program, call the Job Bank at (800) 726-0372 or e-mail
us at < a href=mailto:jobbank@psych.org >jobbank@psych.orgor stop by the booth located in the APA
Resource Center.
APA Resource Center
Visit the APA Resource Center in Exhibit Halls A/B/C, upper level, Convention Centre, and learn how APA's many
programs and services can help your professional life. Free copies of APA periodicals, other materials, and
demonstrations will be offered. The days and hours of operation are Saturday, May 30, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sunday,
May 31, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Monday and Tuesday, June 1 and 2, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; and Wednesday, June 3, 10 a.m. to 3
p.m.
APA programs exhibiting in the Resource Center are
APA Periodicals
The American Journal of Psychiatry and Psychiatric Services will be located in the APA Periodicals Exhibit in the
APA Resource Center (Exhibit Halls A/B/C, upper level, Convention Centre).
Staff of both journals will be available to answer authors' questions and to receive papers submitted for publication. Each journal publishes only original material not published elsewhere in any form and not being considered for publication elsewhere. Five copies and a disk are required for the American Journal of Psychiatry; six copies are required for Psychiatric Services.
Persons who wish to contact editors or reporters of Psychiatric News should inquire at the APA Administrative Office, located in rooms 201 C/D, Convention Centre, where an editor can be paged. They also may leave written announcements, suggestions for articles, or letters to the editor for the newspaper's consideration.
American Psychiatric
Press
At this year's meeting, the American Psychiatric Press Inc. will feature the latest in electronic communication via the
Internet and CD-ROM. In addition, APPI will present a variety of outstanding new titles. Here's a partial list:
Stop by the APPI Bookstore and browse through the hundreds of books, journals, and electronic products that APPI publishes. Authors who wish to schedule an appointment to present a new book idea or discuss a book in progress should call Pamela Bonnaure at (202) 682-6334.
The APPI Bookstore will also have staff of its Circulation Department on site to fulfill your subscription orders, make any address changes, or automatically renew your subscriptions for another year.
Review of Psychiatry: Parts I-VI
This year six major topics of current professional interest featuring national authorities will be presented throughout
the week in room 105, lower level, Convention Centre:
Lectures
APA will sponsor approximately 25 lectures this year. Here's the schedule of the award lectures:
New Research
The new research program will build upon the experience of past successful activities, continuing the trend toward
broader opportunities for exposure by clinicians to new research findings. Topics likely to be covered include AIDS
and HIV; anxiety; alcohol and substance abuse; eating, mood, and personality disorders; schizophrenia; psychosocial
research; geriatrics; and psychopharmacology.
The new research program will begin on Monday, June 1, 9 a.m to 10:30 a.m. with New Research Young Investigators' Poster Session 1, an innovative program in its 10th year. It was established to encourage medical students, residents, and research fellows to submit abstracts for presentation and highlight the scientific work of young investigators in psychiatry and emphasize the value of their efforts. This session provides a forum in which young investigators may interact with their peers from around the country, along with attending senior investigators.
This session will be followed by Research Advances in Psychiatry: An Update for the Clinician from 10:30 a.m to 12:30 p.m.; Young Investigators' Oral/Slide Sessions 2-3 from 1 p.m to 2:30 p.m.; and Young Investigators' Poster Session 2 from 3 p.m to 5 p.m.
There will be five more poster sessions, two each Tuesday and Wednesday, June 2 and 3, noon to 2 p.m., and 3 p.m to 5 p.m.; and one on Thursday, June 4, noon to 2 p.m. The oral/slide presentations will be held in rooms 205B and 205D, street level, and the poster sessions will be held in room 106, lower level, Convention Centre.
There will be Research Consultations With on Tuesday through Thursday, June 2 to 4, 11 a.m to 12:30 p.m. This series allows junior researchers an opportunity to discuss difficult issues with prominent colleagues. These are limited to 25 participants on a first-come, first-served basis.
Other research activities include posters on health services research, selected by APA's Committee on Health Services from the accepted submissions. These will be displayed along with two Federal Funding Poster Sessions in conjunction with the two Young Investigators' Poster Sessions on Monday, June 1, 9 a.m to 10:30 a.m. and 3 p.m to 5 p.m. The federal-funding posters will have representatives from major grant programs providing potential grantees with the most up-to-date information on research grant opportunities. Other sessions include the NIDA/NIH Workshop on Monday, June 1, 2 p.m to 5 p.m., and Research Advances in Medicine on the Effects of Perinatal Exposure to Cocaine, a collaborative session with the National Institute on Drug Abuse, which will be held on Tuesday, June 2, 9 a.m to 11 a.m.
Workshops: Issue and Component
There will be a total of 176 workshops held Monday through Thursday, June 1 to 4, 9 a.m to 10:30 a.m., and 11 a.m
to 12:30 p.m. The workshops will be listed under two categories, issue workshops and component workshops. There
will be 116 issue workshops and 60 component workshops.
Discussion Groups
There will be 13 discussion groups, each limited to 25 participants on a first-come, first-served basis. They will take
place 9 a.m to 10:30 a.m., and 11 a.m to 12:30 p.m., Monday through Thursday, June 1 to 4, at the Royal York.
Master Educator Clinical Consultations
(formerly Clinical Consultations With)
There will be 18 master educator clinical consultation sessions. These make up a series of clinically based seminars
with outstanding educators selected by psychiatry training directors throughout the country. Formats and subject
matter vary, but all utilize clinical material. They are presented in conjunction with the American Association of
Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and coordinated by David A. Goldberg, M.D.
These sessions are limited to 15 participants on a first-come, first-served basis. They will be held at the Royal York from 9 a.m to 10:30 a.m. and 11 a.m to 12:30 p.m., Monday through Thursday, June 1 to 4, and are for APA members only.
Debate
Resolved: Pharmaceutical Support for Undergraduate, Graduate, and Postgraduate Educational Programs Should Be
Encouraged will be held Monday, June 1, 9 a.m to 10:40 a.m. in room 104A, lower level, Convention Centre.
Round Table Discussion
Coercion in Psychiatry will be held Tuesday, June 2, 9 a.m to 10:30 a.m. in room 104A, lower level, Convention
Centre.
Medical Updates
There will be four medical update sessions, one each on Monday through Thursday, June 1 to 4, 11 a.m to 12:30 p.m.,
room 104C, lower level, Convention Centre. The titles of the sessions are Congestive Heart Disease, Herbal
Medicine, Hepatic Cytochrome System, and Pregnancy Outcome Following the Use of Antidepressants.
Clinical Case Conferences and
Continuous Clinical Case Conferences
There will be four clinical case conferences: Psychotherapy With a Substance-Abusing Patient, Monday, June 1;
Psychotherapy With Women Who Have Experienced Domestic Violence, Tuesday, June 2; Psychotherapy With a
Patient With Dissociative Identity Disorder, Wednesday, June 3; and Psychotherapy With Persons With HIV
Considering Protease Inhibitors, Thursday, June 4. These sessions will meet 9 a.m to 10:30 a.m. in the Caledon
Room, lobby level, Crowne Plaza, and are for APA members only.
There will be one continuous clinical case conference, Psychotherapies in Residency Training. Part 1 will be held Monday, June 1, and Part 2 on Tuesday, June 2. Both will meet 9 a.m to noon in the Ontario Room, lower level, Crowne Plaza, and are for APA members only.
Media Sessions
The media sessions involve the showing of a videotape or film documentary, feature-length film, or a computer
software demonstration, all followed by discussion. Specialized sessions focus on production or consumer/family
issues. There will be 37 media sessions featuring 67 media presentations at the Convention Centre, Royal York, and
the Sheraton Centre. The computer software demonstrations will take place in room 718B, 700 level, Convention
Centre, Monday through Wednesday, June 2 and 3, 9 a.m to 5 p.m.
There will also be a new series of hands-on workshops that will be given Monday, June 1, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., at the University of Toronto Computer Lab. The University of Toronto Computer facilities consist of three classrooms containing more than a hundred networked computers (all with Internet access). The collaboration of APA and the university is an experiment and an APA first. The University of Toronto Computer Lab is located only a few blocks from the Delta Chelsea Hotel. Conducting the series of workshops, which will focus on various aspects of psychiatric computing including the Internet and database development, will be members of the APA Information Systems Committee. Attendees will be able to get personal attention and assistance with their computer-related questions from committee members and several computer-savvy invited guests. The workshops are open to all meeting registrants, admission is by badge only, and attendees must provide their own transportation.
APA AIDS Program
The APA AIDS Education Project will present a program of colloquia on AIDS and HIV disease on Tuesday and
Wednesday, June 2 and 3, 9 a.m to noon each day in Ballroom A, lower level, Crowne Plaza. The program is
designed specifically for psychiatrists. Tuesday's session is Clinical and Neuropsychiatric Dimensions of HIV
Disease, and Wednesday's session is AIDS Among Special Patient Populations.
Presidential Sessions
APA President Herbert S. Sacks has planned a series of < a href=create.html>special sessions on
creativity and the creative process as well as on violence.
Forums
This year's meeting includes 10 forums, most meeting from noon to 1:30 p.m.
The sessions on Monday, June 1, are What's Really Going On in Psychiatry?: The APA Practice Research Network, and Meet the APA Medical Director.
Tuesday's sessions are Psychiatry: 25 Years Since Depathologizing Homosexuality and Toward a Neurobiology of Psychotherapy, sponsored by the APA Commission on Psychotherapy; The Future of the Psychiatric Workforce; and Challenges in Teaching Psychiatry in the Next Century, featuring APA's George Tarjan Award.
Wednesday's sessions are Trust in Human Subject Research; The Impact of American Psychiatry on the Development of Psychiatry in Asia, featuring APA's Kun-Po Soo Award; and Who Will Pay for the Treatment of Substance Abuse?, a collaborative session with the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
Thursday's session is Prescription of Medicine by Nonphysicians: Concern for the Public Welfare and Political Pressures.
Scientific and Clinical Report Sessions (formerly
Paper Sessions)
Scientific and clinical reports are oral presentations of papers prepared for submission before publication. In this
newly revised format, reports are grouped by topic, with floor discussion from the audience following the presentation
of each report. There will not be a specific discussant invited to lead the discussion period as in the past. There will
be 40 sessions with 121 reports given.